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Tyres & donny

Post by Andy A » Sun Feb 03, 2008 11:39 pm

With donnington no fast approaching it looks like I will still have the T1rs on my exige,
having not done a track day on either will the T1rs do the job?

Ps, not a track rookie although never been to donny.
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Post by steve_weegie » Mon Feb 04, 2008 12:43 am

I'd pray for cold weather :lol:

The tread on the toyos is pretty deep and as the rubber moves around, it will create a lot of heat pretty quickly.

They'd be fine in the rain though ;)
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Post by Victor Meldrew » Mon Feb 04, 2008 12:52 am

Would love to take my T1r's with me as well for the rain...


but I will be on r888's or Maxsports
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Post by Andy G » Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:13 pm

depending on how hard you are pushing it, if it dry i'd reckon T1r's would go off after a handful of laps.

Fine if its wet.

A048's were going off after 5/6/7 laps fo racing, but it was warm, and we were giving death :wink:

I'd get some a048's - McApe might have a slightly used S1 size set :D
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Post by tut » Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:54 pm

Just bought a new set of 48R's from Camskill again.

£452 inclusive of next day delivery.

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Post by Shug » Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:57 pm

What suspension you running?

48s would be a waste of time on standard Konis and have them on the bump-stops if you used all the grip. the T1rs will be fine unless you do 20 lap runs at a time (not a good idea if it's hot anyway)

When they do overheat, they slide really progressively, so they just deach drifting well 8)
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Post by jj » Mon Feb 04, 2008 3:14 pm

I was running the T1Rs at the amp3 day and thought they were OK and had fun on them, so depends on how serious you take it.

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Post by Shug » Mon Feb 04, 2008 3:17 pm

Shug wrote:What suspension you running?

48s would be a waste of time on standard Konis and have them on the bump-stops if you used all the grip. the T1rs will be fine unless you do 20 lap runs at a time (not a good idea if it's hot anyway)

When they do overheat, they slide really progressively, so they just deach drifting well 8)
I just read the Exige bit... What have you got an S1 in your avatar for? To confuse me? :lol:

Still think the T1Rs will be fine, but Donny is higher speed than KH (just a bit ;)) I think the craners would be interesting on T1Rs after a few laps proper hooning...
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Post by Andy A » Mon Feb 04, 2008 6:23 pm

tut wrote:Just bought a new set of 48R's from Camskill again.

£452 inclusive of next day delivery.

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:lol: Sry maybe i should change my avatar,
Tyres are for s2 exige.
Tut i have tried camskill but then dont do LTS compound AO48
Which ones are you buying? medium! or is their a hard compound?

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Post by Andy G » Mon Feb 04, 2008 6:25 pm

Andy

Dont worry about LTS compound in the slightest.

Go for meduim front and medium or MH rears.
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Post by steve_weegie » Mon Feb 04, 2008 6:27 pm

Andy G wrote:Andy

Dont worry about LTS compound in the slightest.

Go for meduim front and medium or MH rears.
:withstupid

M fronts with MH rears will be my combo of choice in the summer....
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Post by tut » Mon Feb 04, 2008 11:39 pm

Andy

M fronts and MH rears.

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