[DeTomaso] [Fordnatics] Tire choices for TractionLTD

Sean Korb spkorb at gmail.com
Sat Mar 29 00:34:18 EDT 2014


Probably not an issue for racing and I agree that greasy tires can be a lot
of fun and are more forgiving but...

Watch those date codes.  If your tires are hard because they are old they
might be dry rotted.  That's pretty dangerous.

sean


On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Peter Russell <pcrussell50 at gmail.com>wrote:

> If by "turned to stone", you mean that the rubber compound got hard, then
> that's exactly what happened to mine.  Which is probably why mine have
> lasted for so long with tons of tread left.  I don't mind exchanging the
> grip for durability... Even though it's an open track car.
>
> I had a championship american iron racer drive my car with the rock hard
> tires in my intermediate lapping group (level 3 out of 4), and he decimated
> the field which included stis and Evos on R compounds a viper a Corvette or
> two.  Until I even begin to approach that skill level I'll keep learning on
> the hard stuff.
> On Mar 28, 2014 4:20 PM, "Big Al" <molinky at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> And I have had the exact opposite experience. Chinese truck tires. Turned
>> to stone in about 30K miles. Never again. If it's not made here it stays on
>> the rack. I have had decent luck with off shore motorcycle tires however.
>>
>> Al
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Peter Russell <pcrussell50 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Re the whole deal about cheap tires possibly not lasting... Not always.
>>> I have a set of 275/40/17's on my track car that.  were the cheapest tire
>>> offered in that size by tire rack... Back in 2003...
>>>
>>>
>>


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'65,'68 Mustangs,'68 Cougar,'78 R100/7,'60 Metro,'59 A35,'71 Pantera #1382
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   Probably not an issue for racing and I agree that greasy tires can be a
   lot of fun and are more forgiving but...
   Watch those date codes.  If your tires are hard because they are old
   they might be dry rotted.  That's pretty dangerous.
   sean

   On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Peter Russell
   <[1]pcrussell50 at gmail.com> wrote:

     If by "turned to stone", you mean that the rubber compound got hard,
     then that's exactly what happened to mine.  Which is probably why
     mine have lasted for so long with tons of tread left.  I don't mind
     exchanging the grip for durability... Even though it's an open track
     car.

     I had a championship american iron racer drive my car with the rock
     hard tires in my intermediate lapping group (level 3 out of 4), and
     he decimated the field which included stis and Evos on R compounds a
     viper a Corvette or two.  Until I even begin to approach that skill
     level I'll keep learning on the hard stuff.

   On Mar 28, 2014 4:20 PM, "Big Al" <[2]molinky at gmail.com> wrote:

   And I have had the exact opposite experience. Chinese truck tires.
   Turned to stone in about 30K miles. Never again. If it's not made here
   it stays on the rack. I have had decent luck with off shore motorcycle
   tires however.
   Al
   On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Peter Russell
   <[3]pcrussell50 at gmail.com> wrote:

     Re the whole deal about cheap tires possibly not lasting... Not
     always.  I have a set of 275/40/17's on my track car that.  were the
     cheapest tire offered in that size by tire rack... Back in 2003...

   --
   Sean Korb [4]spkorb at spkorb.org [5]http://www.spkorb.org
   '65,'68 Mustangs,'68 Cougar,'78 R100/7,'60 Metro,'59 A35,'71 Pantera
   #1382
   "The more you drive, the less intelligent you get" --Miller
   "Computers are useless.  They can only give you answers." -P. Picasso

References

   1. mailto:pcrussell50 at gmail.com
   2. mailto:molinky at gmail.com
   3. mailto:pcrussell50 at gmail.com
   4. mailto:spkorb at spkorb.org
   5. http://www.spkorb.org/


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