Performance Upgrade:Tires!

[graytoad]

Ok, Girls & Boys:
Apparently one of the most important thing you should look at for increasing your vehicles performance is your tires. There is an account of an interesting comparison of a 2001 Mustang GT beating a 1999 Porsche 911 just using high performance tires on the Mustang VS the using stock OE tires on the Porsche.

....PS: Sticky does not do a good smokin' burnout!

Article is from Popular Mechanics: 10 things to know about Performance Tires
Yahoo!

 

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Good point. This also can apply to stopping/braking along with different pad compounds and can be much cheaper than "big brake" setups.

 

[GizmoQ]

Ok, Girls & Boys:
Apparently one of the most important thing you should look at for increasing your vehicles performance is your tires. There is an account of an interesting comparison of a 2001 Mustang GT beating a 1999 Porsche 911 just using high performance tires on the Mustang VS the using stock OE tires on the Porsche.

The article was a decent basic introduction. But, its bottom line is as we all pretty much already know..."Do your own research!" I know a bunch of guys that have tried the Chinese and Korean brands - very few are satisfied with the results.

SCCA Autocross is changing their rules this year reclassifying street tires to anything over a 200 treadwear rating, which really screwed me over. My Michelin Cups have an 80 treadwear rating, but at least their street legal (I refuse to trailer my car and/or tires to an event). Next year I might as well just get Hoosier racing only tires and compete in the race tire class.

....PS: Sticky does not do a good smokin' burnout!

Life's all about trade-offs. Drag Radials on a road course is just as bad.