[DeTomaso] Maximum Tire Height / Open Road Racing

[asajay at asajay.com]

Um, Dan,

As I recall, your tire choice at a minimum must be from the same  
manufacturer all the way around, i.e. both front and rear.  Mixing  
Goodyear with Falken won't pass tech, if I recall correctly.  You may  
want to double check the rule book on that.  And just on a personal  
note, a 24 inch tall tire in front with a 27 inch tall tire in the  
rear is going to look goofy, but I've been wrong before.

Asa Jay


Quoting Dan Courtney <dfcex at pacbell.net>:

> 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
>
> Phone (858) 551-5455
> Fax (858) 551-5456
>
>   ----- 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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