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re: Tire width

To: spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: re: Tire width
From: CONAN@RALVM8.VNET.IBM.COM
Date: Fri, 7 May 99 22:42:51 EDT
Reply-to: CONAN@RALVM8.VNET.IBM.COM
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
>>per Scott:
>>Disappointed, though... because the car lost that on-rails feeling.  It
>>lost the lightness, the sense of *balance*, that the skinny,
>>old-fashioned tires provided.  Sure, it felt like it had been welded to
>>a NASA centrifuge, so much so that the SUs would stumble from time to
>>time as the gas got sloshed up the sides of the float bowls, but it
>>never had that same delicacy.  And I missed it.

  Friend of mine has this same good/bad problem with his Miata.
  Had great fun slipping it around corners when stock.  Now he's put
shorter, stiffer springs and wide, sticky tires on it.  Corners much
faster now, but you have to go WAYYY too fast to hang the tail out. ;-)
  Ed in NC

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