His original post said the choice was between G-Force R1 and Kumhos.
The G-Force R1 is not the rain tire. His reference to discounted prices
would concur with the G-Force marketing "blow out". I don't know if the
rain tire was being discounted. As such, I'm not sure why you think
that he means rain tire, other than that the rain tire is listed on the
Tire Rack web site. Maybe I deleted one too many messages without
reading them! ;-)
If he's talking G-Force vs Kumho, I stand by my recommendation, and my
success campaigning low-powered FWD cars for about 26 years would lend
credibility to that recommendation. If he's talking BFG rain tire vs
Kumho, that's a different matter. I see no clear advantage to using the
BFG rain tire for his CRX application.
No flame intended, just explaining my recommendation and making sure
that we know which products we're comparing.
Bob Monday
Boys-R-Us Racing
--- Jeff Brown <typer_801@yahoo.com> wrote:
> If the tires in question were BFG R1's then I would
> agree with you Bob, but the tires listed on the
> Tirerack website are listed as R1 *Rain Tires*.
>
> From all I've read and heard, the tread compound
> difference between the two is quite substantial and
> the R1 Rain tires don't work well at all when hot.
>
> If you plan to use these as Rain tires only then
> they'll be fine, otherwise, look at getting Kumho's or
> g-Force R1's. Just my $.02
>
> Regards,
> Jeff
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