[DeTomaso] Maximum Tire Height / Open Road Racing

[Dan Courtney]

Mike,

What! All I've heard for years is that all front tires for the 10" x 15" wheels were out of production (Yokohama AVS 285 40 15 being the last). I felt extremely lucky to get a buy on eight pairs two years ago, but SS wouldn't accept them due to the date code (5 & 6 yrs old).
I know the 345 35 15 is still made in Pirelli P Zeros, but at just 24.9" tall they spin 838 rpms, which is WAY too much for my Silver State speeds (trust me, I've done it three times and I'm planning to go much faster this time).
If I could have found some 13.5" wide wheels in either 19", 20" or 22", then I'd be cruzin in style with 778 to 757 rpms!
As it stands, in the morning I plan to pick up some AFS Bullett style wheels to run Goodyear Eagle F1 GS 265 35 17's (23.8" short) and Falken 255 40 19's (27.2" tall / 765 rpms!)
These would be two skinny for street use though, so they would be dedicated Silver State wheels and tires.
I'd of course much rather just get some ZR Y speed rated tires for my front 15"s and a wide wheel / tire combo I can use on the street.
Who sells these tires, not TireRack I hope (after 5 different reps over these past several weeks)?

Dan
  
Dan F. Courtney


Excalibur Commercial Real Estate Services
La Jolla, CA

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: MikeLDrew at aol.com 
  To: dfcex at pacbell.net ; detomaso at realbig.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 8:34 PM
  Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Maximum Tire Height



  In a message dated 9/17/08 20 14 8, dfcex at pacbell.net writes:



    For what it's worth, I've been on this for several weeks, as you know.


  >>>Which isn't nearly long enough.  In fact right now is about the time you should start making these investigations in preparation for the 2009 season.  Not for this weekend.


    Each time I think I have a wheel/tire combination another issue arises (backspacing, height, etc).
    It seems to be just about impossible to find wide but short tires for the front and wide wheels for the rear.


  >>>Excellent tires in the appropriate sizes for your existing wheels are readily available, and have been so since before you first started asking about this, months ago, and people told you all about them, including exactly where to buy them and what sizes you needed.  All you had to do was just shaddup and buy them.  They're expensive, yes, but they're excellent, and FAR cheaper than buying a whole replacement set of wheels and tires which won't fit the car anyway.

  But you chose to blow it off.  And now you're screwed.

  When you finally decide to get serious, you can pick up the phone and buy DOT-legal race tires, Michelin TB5 (or TB15, or TB5-R, different tread patterns and compounds in the same sizes, choose your compound and tread pattern based upon your expectations of how sticky they need to be versus how long you want them to last, and whether you may be driving in the rain or not), which are readily available in 295/40-15 front and 345/35-15 rear.



    But I haven't given up yet. Heck, I've still got two whole days!


  Uh...no.

  Mike




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