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Thread: Tires tires. What tires?
bliffle


Revvin Up
Posts: 95
posted April 01, 2004 12:58 PM

Tires tires. What tires?

Of all the things we talk about, nary a word about tires.

I'm not satisfied with the plain old knobby thingees I inherited, and sometimes I go around the mountain roads here a little fast. What should I use? Mostly what I do is drive down the freeway 20 miles at 85, and sometimes haul a few debris to the dump, where I daintily steer around the nastiest muck to get to a bumpy dump site.

Today I saw a sleek Ford Ranger with Pirelli P5000 (or something) and wondered if that's what I oughta get. I like Pirellis, because I think they stick Real Good in rainy weather (I put them on my RX7s) so maybe I oughta get some for the REPU. The www.tirerack.com likes Bridgestone Turanzas for rain (my most important criteria), but almost everyone I've seen post in, say www.rx7club.com, just reflect advertising claims.

What ho! What's good for my needs?

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bliffle


Revvin Up
Posts: 95
posted April 05, 2004 09:44 PM

Gee guys, no tire opinions? Should I put some nice Pirelli P400s (or some such) on the REPU?

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rotormunky


Redlining
Orlando, Florida
Posts: 424
posted April 05, 2004 10:17 PM
Edited By: rotormunky on 5 Apr 2004 22:18

I can't tell you what's good on the REPU, but I run Yoko AVS series on my 91 convertible. I have the DBs which are great in the rain (a pet peeve of mine) and are way quieter than any other tire I've had. They stick pretty good, but the car isn't a go kart, more a cruiser for me so that's where my priorities were.


http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp?tireMake=Yokohama&tireModel=AVS+dB+S2


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-Martin
Orlando, Florida

http://www.themonkeyhouse.org/REPU

'77 REPU (Some assembly required :)
'91 Cabrio (Battered and bruised, but she's still my baby.)

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brad


Rotorhead
Posts: 1672
posted April 12, 2004 10:45 AM

Sumitomo has some cheap tires that tsick

I used Sumitomo HTRZ on my rx7 and it stuck good, especially for the price.

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/sumitomo/sumitomo.jsp
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74 REPU Lawn Green
81 Rx-7 racecar. 12a J-
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