Re: GTV-6 tires

["B.D. & Petei Zelazny" <UnltdLtd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe,

the 205 60/15s on my gtv6 give me a very accurate 150 mph speedo (ymphmv!).

i highly recommend the yokohama avs es-100 (a very popular tire from tire rack, #6 in
sales as i recall) which are very reasonably priced at about $70 per corner. these
tires perform very well in wet - they got me through the remnants of hurricane bill,
which was some pretty heavy rain without a slip-up! they are also very good for dry
pavement spirited drivin' on those snakin' roads, and i was pleased with how they
performed durin' the tourin' laps at moroso without even uppin' the air pressures from
my street settings.

can't say how they are in the snow...

'nardo - i'm only on my 3rd or 4th set of tires! ;-{)
'83 gtv6 w/406,771 (s)miles at the moment

Joe Elliott wrote:

> I think the time has come where I can finally justify spending the
> money to get decent tires for my poor GTV-6.  Unfortunately, I know
> very little about tires, so I thought I'd as the collective wisdom of
> the digest what tires I should get for a GTV-6 with stock wheels that
> gets driven in the snow in the winter and autocrossed in the summer.
> I'd also like to ask where to buy them.  I've got two weeks to buy
> them and get them mounted before I go back to school.  I imagine I'd
> order from a place like tirerack.com, but I'm wondering how long it
> usually takes to get them delivered.
>
> As for the tires themselves, I always figured that I'd get 205's, but
> the sizes that I've seen suggest make me think they'd throw off the
> speedometer a little bit, and I'm awfully proud that my GTV-6 speedo
> is damn near 100% accurate throughout its range.  I've also read some
> articles that made me think Vredestein tires would provide a pretty
> kick-ass value for my money, but the ones I was interested in weren't
> available in a 205mm, 15" size that would fit the GTV-6.  What should
> I do?  What exactly is the performance benefit of wider tires.  If
> the friction were Newtonian, there shouldn't be any difference.  I
> suppose I should also ask if the GTV-6 will become incontrollable in
> the snow with 205mm tires rather than stock 195's.
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