As usual.....Warning! Opinion Follows!
#1 Go with the hard compound. The soft compound won't help on salt or dirt. They
will last longer, although the sidewalls usually rot out first.
#2 Goodyear does make tires the size (s) you mention. I ran a set of Talladega
Specials for several years that were 27 X 8 's on a 15" wheel. IMHO those tires
are too wide. They make narrower 27's in the Shorttrack line. Jim Doughty
(pronounced Dowdy) at Shelby in Phoenix has spent a lot of time working with me
to find out what will & won't fit - his Ph # is 602-437-4977. He also has an
800# on his card I have never used - 800-628-9305 I run that size Front Runners
on the front of my Vette and they are perfect (for me)
Hope you had a great Christmas!
Ed
Ken Bond wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I have been shopping for tires (along with a whole bunch of other
> stuff).
>
> a few questions:
>
> 1... does hardness of the compound matter? The Goodyear site sometimes
> as options about compound hardness
>
> 2... I found just what I wanted on the Goodyear WWW for the fronts, namely,
>
> FrontRunners, product code 808-028-089; size 25.0X4.5-15 that go on a
> 4" rim; tread 4.5"; sec. width 6.5" at approx $137 each... great,
> just what I want!
>
> Then... I keep looking on the Goodyear WWW for tires for the BACK
> with no luck. I was looking for a tire 27" tall
> and have a tred of ~ 9" to 9.5" tread. No such animal :-( As I looked
> around the rest of Goodyear's www page, nothing seemed to stick out and
> say... that's it!
>
> 3... Goodyear referred me Carol Shelby Enterprises to actually buy tires. I
> looked around tirerack's www but with NO LUCK on FrontRunners. Has anyone
> found tires of this sort at one of the national discount tire operations?
>
> KEN
>
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