[DeTomaso] Tire Choices - Your Input is Welcomed

[Charles Engles]

Dear Curt,


              I have Sumitomos on one Pantera and BFG TA G Force KDs on the other one.   The Sumis are a great value and perfectly adequate for street and highway use, but they are not a "great tire".

               R&T old picture classic:    Black and white picture of a curving road with snow residue on the shoulders and a wrecked Ferrari off the road on the inside of the curve pointed down the slope into a grove of trees with tell tale skidmarks and then tiretracks in the snow.
              In the foreground is a man calmly lighting a cigarette.    Caption----"Good tires", Bob mused as he lit his cigarette, "but certainly not great tires."...........!


                              Warmest regards, Chuck Engles


PS: I have Kuhmos on the old bimmers and they are a terrific value of performance and price.   Dave Bell's reference to the Grassroots Motorsports tire article was spot on with my experience.   When the Panteras need some new shoes again, I think the Kuhmos will be in the top tier of choices.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Curt Hall" <cuvee at sbcglobal.net>
To: <detomaso at realbig.com>; "Steve Hawkins" <shawkins777 at comcast.net>
Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 10:35 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Tire Choices - Your Input is Welcomed


I'm going to be getting new tires in the near future, how about Sumoitomo's (good price)! Or has anyone run Vredestein Ultrac Sessanta, not to bad of a price. 

--- On Sat, 5/9/09, Steve Hawkins <shawkins777 at comcast.net> wrote:

From: Steve Hawkins <shawkins777 at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Tire Choices - Your Input is Welcomed
To: detomaso at realbig.com
Date: Saturday, May 9, 2009, 9:24 AM

The SP 8000 are good tires.  I've run them in track events and a couple of
open road races.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On
Behalf Of Mike Thomas
Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 9:15 AM
To: detomaso at realbig.com
Subject: [DeTomaso] Tire Choices - Your Input is Welcomed


OK, so it looks like I'm going to have to get new tires before the drive to
Reno.  I've narrowed it down to three choices that are both available and
that I can (choke) afford.  The configuration I'm going with is 245/40ZR17
front / 315/35ZR17 rear.

Dunlop Sport 8000
BF Goodrich G-Force R1
Goodyear Eagle F1 GS D3

I'm doing almost exclusively street driving.  I have Pirelli P-Zero
Asymetricos now, but can't afford the $500 each for the rears, and want to
step down from the 335 rear tires.  My Pirellis on the front are fine, but
the rears are past the wear markers (the previous owner either had them
shaved or spun off a few miles).

Your thoughts on these choices are welcomed.  They are all within about $100
of each other mounted and balanced.

Thanks in advance.

Mike Thomas
Panteras Northwest



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