To add to this topic -- I have 185/60 Yokohama A509 mounted on the Minators
on my RWA 72 Midget. I haven't yet found the adhesion limit. Brings a
smile to my face constantly. And absolutely no tire to fender contact.
At 09:53 PM 16-06-00 -0400, Adrian Barnes wrote:
>Now that I have joined the driving crowd again, I can start contributing
>more useful stuff. :-)
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>The Pirellis that were on the gold car had plenty of traction/tread, but
>they also had plenty of dry rot, so rather than drive around on those, I
>decided to put the nice Minator (minilite replica) wheels complete with new
>Michelin tires on. So I swapped out with the poor purple project car (it
>looks terrible now with the rusty rostyles and dry rotted tires on it).
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>Wow...is all I can say. Anybody thinking about tires, those Michelins are
>incredible. The difference between the drive last night and the drive today
>were night and day. It's a totally different car. I was actually
>confident, despite still not trusting the mechanicals. :-) It took twists
>and turns like they weren't even there, but reminded me that I need a brake
>job soon.
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>Anyway, thought I'd share!
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>Also, I mounted my first top/hood tonight. Good thing I had bought that pop
>riveter. That was a tedious job, but relatively easy, especially since all
>the holes were already there. Thanks to Steve Byers for the top.
>
>adrian
>
>PS The Michelins are X-Metric 155-R13s.
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>adrian@workgroup.net
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