S1 revival after a year and tyres
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 9:46 pm
HI,
After spending most of last year travelling (in a digging ditches overseas/touring way not in a posh student lucky f**ker way) I'm putting the elise back on the road in early April.
It's going to need C service inc belt change ( joy), tax,mot, insurance, a new fan at some point soon and 4 new tyres - they were past their best before I left and paying for everything at once will be a stretch.
S1 options seem really thin of the ground. Currently its sitting on KU 31's, as far as I'm aware these got replaced with KU39 - black circles seem to have KU 31 in the original sizes though. Are 31's back in production?
The original sizes will give me slightly less overall grip but it's for on road and I'm not too worried about max pace. I want something predictable, decent in the wet and decent feedback. circa 5000 miles a year. The original s1 came on rock hard P-zero's and was still thought of as a revelation!
The other option is hankook rs2's on the larger size or uniroyal rainsport 2's. I could maybe stretch to the toyo r1rs but think advan range would be stretching finances too much with all the other stuff coming off as well- have a wedding to pay for and only been back in work for a wee while.
Kev
After spending most of last year travelling (in a digging ditches overseas/touring way not in a posh student lucky f**ker way) I'm putting the elise back on the road in early April.
It's going to need C service inc belt change ( joy), tax,mot, insurance, a new fan at some point soon and 4 new tyres - they were past their best before I left and paying for everything at once will be a stretch.
S1 options seem really thin of the ground. Currently its sitting on KU 31's, as far as I'm aware these got replaced with KU39 - black circles seem to have KU 31 in the original sizes though. Are 31's back in production?
The original sizes will give me slightly less overall grip but it's for on road and I'm not too worried about max pace. I want something predictable, decent in the wet and decent feedback. circa 5000 miles a year. The original s1 came on rock hard P-zero's and was still thought of as a revelation!
The other option is hankook rs2's on the larger size or uniroyal rainsport 2's. I could maybe stretch to the toyo r1rs but think advan range would be stretching finances too much with all the other stuff coming off as well- have a wedding to pay for and only been back in work for a wee while.
Kev
I'll certainly never pop a set of these on a car again! The Nexen ones that were on the rear of the Experience Limits race car were decent and cheap.. advans on the front and Nexen on the rear and it was understeer city, they seemed pretty grippy out of the box.... Not sure if they could handle track use heat cycles but for a road car I'd consider them, might even pop a set on my Passat 
