> Anyway, having tried it both ways myself, I definitely vote for
> sticky
> tires. The width is probably less an actual factor [...] than the fact you
>cannot buy high performance tires in
> skinny profiles.
Bingo. Sticky compounds are not to be found in skinny tires. Somebody point
me to an exception to this rule, please!
> But what the factory absolutely did not have, was anything even
> faintly
> resembling a modern high performance tire.
Bingo again. The stock suspension on my Seven would have been perfectly
capable of beating a Corvette in a 1970 autocross. Now, even the non-sticky
Dunlops it is wearing are too much for it.
(My Seven, although built in 1979, has chassis and suspension virtually
identical to the 1966 Lotus Super Seven I saw running back in the day. Some
Caterham upgrades are on the agenda before I put on the real stickies. The car
will still look and sound like a sixties Lotus Seven.)
Phil Ethier West Side Saint Paul Minnesota USA
1962 Triumph TR4 CT2846L 1979 Caterham 7
1993 Suburban 1994 Miata C-package 2007 Saturn Ion 3 2.4
pethier [at] comcast [dot] net
http://forum.mnautox.com/forums http://www.flickr.com/photos/pethier
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