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Re: From what tirerack told me, the Pilot Alpin is more
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Posted by John [Email] (more from John) on Thu, 5 Oct 2000 17:25:29 Share Post by Email
In Reply to: From what tirerack told me, the Pilot Alpin is more, jj, Thu, 5 Oct 2000 16:09:17
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Hi Clay, This may sound really strandge but when I was at the World Championship Rally in 1993 in Sweden, the FIRST thing I wanted to look at was tires. Michelin rally tires use a system that gives first the tire contact with (in cm), then overall diameter (in cm) and finally rim size(in inches) These cars had just been strangled with a 38mm restictor on the inlet to the turbo so they had realisticly only 385 hp, the roads they were on were about 1.25 lanes wide and they average about 114 km/hr. They used
11/65x16 or 11/65x15. That works out in normal street car size to almost exactly boring old 165/80x15. Of course they were interested inperfomance and control, and with street cars there is always style considerations. Remember, all the advice you will get for tire and dealership guys have the restraint of LIABILITY litigation lurking somewhere. The real answer has to do with the tire's footprint. For grip for acc and braking it isn't the tread which is critical but the space between, the gap. For slippy slidey, it's the footprint,and the squareness of the outermost blocks. Fat tire, footprint like - (presuming we're viewing from above and top is forward),
skinny tire footprint like !. You really want performance in the snow, I'd get Nokian NR09 in 165x15 studded. Good luck. John

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