[Shotimes] Cheap tires for a 91 SHO

[ianf@eden.rutgers.edu]

The problem is trying to get everything to work fine on the street 
before I try breaking even more things on the track..

Ian


> Mine work great on the track, How do yours?
> 
> Oh that's right, nevermind
> 
> Kirk J Doucette
> NESHOC President
> Stormtrooper-97 White
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-
admin@autox.team.net]On
> Behalf Of ianf@eden.rutgers.edu
> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 10:14 PM
> To: ronporter@prodigy.net; manunnal@netheaven.com; 
shotimes@autox.team.net
> Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Cheap tires for a 91 SHO
> 
> that's because they have those silly "PBR/Baer <-similar to the cobra"
> twin piston floating calipers.
> 
> Actually, the Z06 would probably stop fine with a set of decent pads.
> The brakes although not fixed multi piston calipers, should be 
adequate
> for that car. Wilwood has a C5 front and rear brake setup though.
> 
> Ian
> "becoming a caliper expert everyday"
> forged wilwood superlites, coming soon. :)
> 
> 
> > Very good points. What many people don't understand is that the 
stock
> brakes
> > on virtually every car made can either lock up the tires (non-ABS) 
or
> engage
> > the ABS for a panic stop. Better brakes won't change this (nor
> shorten the
> > stopping distance), it's the tire quality that determines the 
stopping
> > ability of almost every car.
> >
> > Putting better brakes on a SHO won't help the ultimate stopping
> > ability....where it helps is in repeated hard stops, as in a track
> > situation. Sure, better brakes can have a different "feel" for 
partial
> > braking, but this does not improve all-out stopping ability.
> >
> > Todd Serota, who owns/runs the TracQuest events, has found this with
> many
> > cars that run at the events. Everyone is impressed with the z06
> Corvette for
> > handling, but the stock brakes still go away quite quickly. They may
> feel
> > very good on the street, but after a few laps the Z06s lose brakes,
> whereas
> > the Vipers and Porsches keep on truckin'.
> >
> > Ron Porter
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-
> admin@autox.team.net]
> > On Behalf Of Mark Nunnally
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 12:17 PM
> > To: shotimes@autox.team.net
> > Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Cheap tires for a 91 SHO
> >
> > Bingo Bingo.  Tires stop a car, not brakes.  Buddy at work just
> bought a '03
> > Accord 240 hp V6.  Figured out my ASA rims dual bolt pattern fit, so
> we
> > pulled off the skinny OEM 205/60 rubber, and stuck the 225/50 V700
> race
> > rubber on 7.5" rims.  Obviously the car would go around a corner a
> bunch
> > faster, but nathan couldn't beleive how well the car stopped.  With
> the
> > g-tech, we were getting 30-40 feet shorter stopping distances 
between
> the 2
> > different wheels/tires.  It was obvious how many more g's the car
> would pull
> > with the sticky tires.  granted, that's an extreme example (crappy 
OEM
> > skinnies vs fat wide race rubber) but even sticky street rubber 
would
> make a
> > difference.  10-20 feet on a stop can save your life, or your car.
> >
> > My 89 (on the way to the track running the 450 nittos) won't stop
> worth a
> > turd.  The tires lock up when you barely breath on the pedal.  With
> the
> > nitto drag radials, or the race tires, it's like night and day.
> >
> > The Yokohoma ES100's have good straight line traction (braking and
> > acceleration), especially considering the cost of the tire.
> >
> > mark
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