[Fot] TR2 Tires

[Richard Taylor]

Back in the mid 80's I vintage raced an Austin Healy 100-4 with Michelin X
tires and 48 spoke wheels. The drifting was exciting but we lost a lot of
time in the turns. When I switched to wider, stickier tires, the outside
wheels quickly became 18 spoke wheels. 

My observation: better tires require more spokes. I couldn't resist the
temptation so I switched to 72 spokes which performed flawlessly. 

And, of course, I drove the car to and from the track.

Richard Taylor
TR-4 #196

-----Original Message-----
From: fot-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:fot-bounces at autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Tony Drews
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 1:30 AM
To: fot at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Fot] TR2 Tires

If we're looking at 5.5" wide wheels, I doubt we're talking stock rims.

Tony

At 08:05 PM 7/15/2012, Terry Stetler wrote:
>Is not the RA-1 a wide, "R compound" competition pseudo street tire?
Hence
>it won't fit the original narrow and semi fragile 48 spoke wire wheels 
>of a stock TR-2.
>
>We are talking a stock TR-2 here, yes?
>
>Terry Stetler.
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