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Re: Rookie Question-rain tires?

To: chkangmd@qnis.net, vintage-race@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Rookie Question-rain tires?
From: S800Racer@aol.com
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 09:09:35 EST
In a message dated 3/5/00 11:51:10 PM, chkangmd@qnis.net writes:

<< So what
is done for tires in "wet" conditions?  I have the Hoosier TD's now>>

    My experience is that the Hoosier TD's are awful, if not outright 
dangerous, in the wet.  I don't know if it is the compound or the tread 
pattern or both, but they are not good in anything more than a damp 
condition.  The really trick wet set-up is to use Hoosier "dirt track" tires. 
 They are the tires that the midget racers us on the front of their cars.  
They are super soft with a very open tread pattern.  Another option is to 
mount a set of high performance street radials with good wet weather 
performance and full tread depth (not shaved for racing).

    And like they used to say on "Hill Street Blues" -- Be careful out there!

    Doug Meis
    '67 Honda S800

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