- 61. Re: Nitto 555 Drag Radial (score: 1)
- Author: Loren Williams <Loren@kscable.com>
- Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 19:27:30 -0500
- Grassroots Motorsports wrote something about them a few months ago. I believe they said the grip was good, but the sidewalls were soft. Pretty much what you'd expect from a drag racing tire. Not the
- /html/autox/2000-10/msg00821.html (7,458 bytes)
- 62. Re: STS Tire Rules (score: 1)
- Author: Loren Williams <Loren@kscable.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 17:09:32 -0500
- Roger, there is a very simple solution to this dilemma: If you don't have any interest in competing in a street tire class, don't. And don't waste your time arguing against it. There is enough suppor
- /html/autox/2000-10/msg00997.html (9,471 bytes)
- 63. Re: STS Tire Rules (score: 1)
- Author: Loren Williams <Loren@kscable.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 17:19:21 -0500
- There are maybe 5 different street tire models that are extremely common that you would be likely to see competing at Nationals in STS. Likewise, there are 3 or 4 different R-tire models that are com
- /html/autox/2000-10/msg01000.html (9,363 bytes)
- 64. Putting a knot in two threads (score: 1)
- Author: Loren Williams <Loren@kscable.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 17:40:34 -0500
- That's it! The M3 isn't an ESP overdog at all, Bob T was just running on "ringer" R-tires! (the fact that he's a "ringer" driver and suspension tuner has nothing to do with it) -- Loren Williams | Lo
- /html/autox/2000-10/msg01004.html (6,852 bytes)
- 65. Re: STS Tire Rules (score: 1)
- Author: Loren Williams <Loren@kscable.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 20:54:50 -0500
- If any of us were concerned about it, we would. As you have so eloquently stated (over and over again :) ), there's nothing we can do about this issue. What's to discuss? Should we pack up and go hom
- /html/autox/2000-10/msg01021.html (8,896 bytes)
- 66. Re: STS Tire Rules (score: 1)
- Author: Loren Williams <Loren@kscable.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 20:58:05 -0500
- Think really hard here and tell me who in this discussion has been bitching? -- Loren Williams | Loren@kscable.com '94 Saturn SC2 | Wichita Region SCCA - http://www2.southwind.net/~scca
- /html/autox/2000-10/msg01022.html (8,440 bytes)
- 67. Re: STS Tire Rules (score: 1)
- Author: Loren Williams <Loren@kscable.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 21:15:14 -0500
- My intent was not to irk anyone, sorry. I was a little irked by Roger's negativism about a class that I have a great fondness for. He is certainly entitled to his opinion, and I welcome him to share
- /html/autox/2000-10/msg01024.html (9,882 bytes)
- 68. Re: STS Tire Rules (score: 1)
- Author: Loren Williams <Loren@kscable.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 22:18:00 -0500
- (Note to self: Always consult with Dennis first.) So, since you wouldn't say anything negative about STS otherwise, are you saying that STS shouldn't be a national class because it can't provide the
- /html/autox/2000-10/msg01029.html (10,804 bytes)
- 69. Re: Here's a crazy STS idea... (score: 1)
- Author: Loren Williams <Loren@kscable.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 17:55:37 -0500
- I like the idea, and the AVS would be a great tire for it. But... I think the AVS is on its way out, hope it gets a good replacement with an equally wide range of sizes. And this would take the suppo
- /html/autox/2000-10/msg01102.html (7,473 bytes)
- 70. Re: STS Tires Rules - Can we get some thoughts on spec tires? (score: 1)
- Author: Loren Williams <Loren@kscable.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 18:22:21 -0500
- I don't think any more people would buy an autocross-specific set of wheels & tires as a result of going to a spec tire than already do. Those who are inclined to do so already do it. Those who, like
- /html/autox/2000-10/msg01103.html (9,415 bytes)
- 71. Re: STS Tires Rules - Can we get some thoughts on spec tires? (score: 1)
- Author: Loren Williams <Loren@kscable.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 18:32:43 -0500
- I wasn't there this year, but when I went last year I competed on my daily-driven street tires. Several of last year's competitors were on fairly new tires, but I think almost all of them drove in on
- /html/autox/2000-10/msg01104.html (8,332 bytes)
- 72. Re: NO spec tires please (score: 1)
- Author: Loren Williams <Loren@kscable.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 18:44:45 -0500
- Losing the sale of 100 sets of tires amounts to less than $50k, that's not going to bother a tire company. But if it's the win that they are after... winning one year with an illegal tire, and then b
- /html/autox/2000-10/msg01106.html (7,747 bytes)
- 73. Re: STS Tires Rules - Can we get some thoughts on spec tires? (score: 1)
- Author: Loren Williams <Loren@kscable.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 21:31:30 -0500
- Believe it or not, I wouldn't mind autocrossing on tires like that IF that's what my competition was on. I've been autocrossing on street tires, mostly on asphalt, for 5 years... I kinda know how to
- /html/autox/2000-10/msg01113.html (8,409 bytes)
- 74. STS Regional Stats (score: 1)
- Author: Loren Williams <Loren@kscable.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:05:46 -0500
- I don't remember who asked, but here's some info from Wichita Region: We currently have no Novice class. Tried it last year, it failed miserably. People tend to frown on PAX classes... especially Nov
- /html/autox/2000-10/msg01117.html (7,617 bytes)
- 75. Re: STS Tire Rules (score: 1)
- Author: Loren Williams <Loren@kscable.com>
- Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 19:51:09 -0600
- I have come to understand what you're saying here (thanks Roger, et. al.), but there's still one thing that's not quite clear to me. How is the Stock/SP "DOT approved" rule any more enforcable than t
- /html/autox/2000-10/msg01147.html (10,089 bytes)
- 76. Re: STS Tire Rules and other flavors of fudge (score: 1)
- Author: Loren Williams <Loren@kscable.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 16:48:46 -0600
- Why? If someone won D Stock with an ECU that appeared to be legal in every physical way, and responded to Chrysler's diagnostics in a normal fashion... how would you prove that it was not legal? And
- /html/autox/2000-10/msg01198.html (8,451 bytes)
- 77. Re: Enforcing the unenforceable (score: 1)
- Author: Loren Williams <Loren@kscable.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 17:02:46 -0600
- And if there is no answer, what are we to do? The tire issue is basically dead for now, I think we're at Spec Tire or status quo. But as the "Subject Matter Expert", how do you propose that the SEB
- /html/autox/2000-10/msg01200.html (8,282 bytes)
- 78. Re: STS Tires - best way!!! (score: 1)
- Author: Loren Williams <Loren@kscable.com>
- Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 18:33:20 -0600
- Cool. Did you forget where you are??? -- Loren Williams | Loren@kscable.com '94 Saturn SC2 | Wichita Region SCCA - http://www2.southwind.net/~scca
- /html/autox/2000-10/msg01287.html (7,238 bytes)
- 79. Re: The HP nationals trend (score: 1)
- Author: Loren Williams <Loren@kscable.com>
- Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 16:26:53 -0500
- Are you still taking 4th grade math? I hope so. -- Loren Williams | Loren@kscable.com '94 Saturn SC2 | Wichita Region SCCA - http://www2.southwind.net/~scca
- /html/autox/2000-09/msg00177.html (8,249 bytes)
- 80. Re: Protest in HS? (score: 1)
- Author: Loren Williams <Loren@kscable.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 16:30:28 -0500
- The story as I heard it from an interested E Stocker who was there: Russell Blume was protested, as usual, for several things. One of those things was ignition timing, which was found to be "out of m
- /html/autox/2000-09/msg00337.html (8,849 bytes)
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