Sorry that my messages often do not have text. Seems to be a problem
with one of my mail servers.
Anyway, I ran AVS intermediates for two years doing car club lapping
sessions [and daily driving]. I use 205x15x60 on the front and 215/60
on the rear [the 215s rubbed in the front].
The current Grassroots Motorsports Magazine [November 2002] has a
review of "hot" street tires [and some R compound track tires]. For the
street they tested times [autocross track format, same car, two drivers,
many runs per tire] of 4 tires: The best times were on the most
expensive tire BF Goodrich g-Force T/a KDs, the next best [by .5 second
on a 41 second run for one driver and just .13 for the other driver]
were the Falken Azensis. These cost $76 for 205/50 R15s versus $150 fro
the KD. They also tested Kuhmo Ecsta Supra 712s [$58] and Hankook
Ventas. These were slower by a second a second and a half. The R
compound [Hoosier, Kuhmos all 1.5 2 seconds faster than the Goodrich].
As side bars they described two other tires they got to test, but not at
the same time as the above: Kuhmo Exta MX [still slower than KD] and
Yokahama [the AVS ES100 which is the AVS Intermediate's replacement].
All prices are at Tire Rack I think.
I tore up one of my 205 intermediates on the last track day they saw
[now run 16 inch Kuhmo Eksta 700 type R and love them]. Just this
morning I ordered a replacement at $46 plus shipping from Tire Rack [I
use these for the street tires now].
Chuck
[demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type text/x-vcard which had a name of
Chuck.Arnold.vcf]
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