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From: Joe Worsley <worsley@yadtel.net>
To: autox@autox.team.net <autox@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, March 23, 2001 10:33 PM
Subject: Help
>I need some help to figure out what I need to do for tires. I have a car
>(Rotus 7 - Lotus look alike) 1500lbs. and 220hp that has 15" wheels on it.
It
>will run in D Mod so I can use slicks but the only rubber available is "
road
>race" type. Hoosier only offers R45, R55 etc. in this size.
Joe -- the "road race" tire is what you want. We who run in Prep and Mod
classes on slicks are running the roadrace tires from Hoosier and others.
There are not different "autocross compounds" as such in slicks. "Road race"
tire = slick-tread tire.
Hoosier Autocrossers, by that name, are DOT bias-ply tires intended for the
Stock/Street Prepared classes.
Get the Hoosier R45s. That's what most of us on Hoosier slicks are running
now.
A good website would be http://www.rsracing.com/ - that's Ron Ver Mulm's
site, autocrosser (CP Camaro) and Hoosier dealer. And
http://www.kcraceware.com/ - that's Charlie Clark's site, he's both
autocrosser (CP) and road racer (GT3) in the same Corvair, also a Hoosier
dealer.
--Rocky Entriken (DP Spitfire)
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