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Those tires look like yokohama avs es100's. they are the cheapest good tire you can get,. They are what most auto cross guys run. the next tires up are like 150 a tire. Good score on the tires though.
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Originally Posted by Rotortuner
Those tires look like yokohama avs es100's. they are the cheapest good tire you can get,. They are what most auto cross guys run. the next tires up are like 150 a tire. Good score on the tires though.
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For STS and STX they run Falken Azeins.
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Originally Posted by turbojeff
What kind of auto-x guys do you hang around? At our local events people pretty much run R compound, Hoosier and Kumho are the two heavy hitters.
For STS and STX they run Falken Azeins.
For STS and STX they run Falken Azeins.
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I bet he hangs out with AWD 323 Auto-X guys that drive insane and don't have too much $$ to spend
BTW those rims are awesome, a friend of mine has em on his Suby and they are pretty cool. Although I am not a fan of lowering cars a bigger rubber or lowering a couple inches would "look" better, but if you are just for perfromance who cares?
BTW those rims are awesome, a friend of mine has em on his Suby and they are pretty cool. Although I am not a fan of lowering cars a bigger rubber or lowering a couple inches would "look" better, but if you are just for perfromance who cares?
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Originally Posted by turbojeff
What kind of auto-x guys do you hang around? At our local events people pretty much run R compound, Hoosier and Kumho are the two heavy hitters.
For STS and STX they run Falken Azeins.
For STS and STX they run Falken Azeins.
When ever i go out there, about 85% of the cars are actualy driven to the track, cus they are cars that people drive on the street. Therefor they dont run hoosiers and the like on the street. Next time your out there just look. i bet if you count the number of cars running es100s compared to other street tires i bet there are more of those than any other. Yes the kumho victor racers, paradas etc. are popular to, but all are almost double the price of the es100's. I live like 20 mins from bremerton raceway, i go out there all the time. Since yokohama replaced the almost benchmark street performance AVS line the the ES100's they have really caught on due to their wide selection of sizes and relatively good bang for the buck.
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Originally Posted by 93silverbullet
I agree with Jeff. I run the ES100's, nice street tire for the money. But I sure as hell woundn't run them for auto-x (at least not if wanted a competitive time) event.
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Originally Posted by Rotortuner
When ever i go out there, about 85% of the cars are actualy driven to the track, cus they are cars that people drive on the street. Therefor they dont run hoosiers and the like on the street. Next time your out there just look. i bet if you count the number of cars running es100s compared to other street tires i bet there are more of those than any other. Yes the kumho victor racers, paradas etc. are popular to, but all are almost double the price of the es100's. I live like 20 mins from bremerton raceway, i go out there all the time. Since yokohama replaced the almost benchmark street performance AVS line the the ES100's they have really caught on due to their wide selection of sizes and relatively good bang for the buck.
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I bet he hangs out with AWD 323 Auto-X guys that drive insane and don't have too much $$ to spend
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Originally Posted by Rotortuner
you can go ahead and spend twice as much on a set of hoosiers, all it will d for you is, make you haul 4 extra wheels and tires each day to change, trailer your car, or bump you out of your class, its up to you.
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Originally Posted by Icemastr
Your point makes me wonder how much you have actually autocrossed. BSCC doesn't have a street tire class to my knowledge, all their classes allow r-compound tires. NWR has a couple of street tire classes, one is Street tire index, in which it is based off the actual stock classes that do allow r-compound tires so you could run in either the regular class you would be in that you can use r-compounds or if you want to run street tires they have a special handicapped class that you can run in with treadwear higher than 140. Plus there are a few specialized street tire classes that only certain cars can enter, STX,STU, STS, STS2. Suspension modifications, wider rims, etc knock you out of classes, not tires usually in autocrossing.
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None of us have ever talked about running a slick, we have only talked about running r-compounds which are DOT approved race tires. Full race slicks put you in Prepared or Mod classes, stock, street prepared, and street mod classes can run r-compounds. If you counted up all the cars running r-compounds at a BSCC event I think you would find probably 2/3 or even 3/4 of the people not running in novice are on r-compounds, at a NWR-SCCA event you will only find a few cars out of 100-200 that are not in a street tire or novice class not running race tires. A national champion co-drove my car for a morning session on my street tires then during lunch we switched to my R-compound tires and I barely edged out his time. Results show r-compounds can be worth over 2 seconds on a 60 second course given same driver same car.