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LEGENDS => Setup and Handling => Topic started by: SCCAracer on February 02, 2019, 10:23:06 am

Title: Other tires for road racing
Post by: SCCAracer on February 02, 2019, 10:23:06 am
Looking at putting on non legends (Federal) tires for road racing. Looking at Goodyear,Yokohama and Hoosier. Can do 13s or 14s similar to what's on a formula car (FF or FC)
Anyone play around with this? Not worried about the rules, just trying to get better turn in performance and grip.
Thanks
Title: Re: Other tires for road racing
Post by: justfreaky on February 03, 2019, 08:44:23 am
It was suggested to me several years ago to look into Hoosier A7 or R7. Since then, I have been looking at other brands such as Toyo Proxes RR and BFGoodrich  g-Force R1. These are a DOT legal tires and are designed for autocross and competition racing. They are slick type tires and do come in a 13" wheel size. I have not yet gotten my car together, so haven't tried any of them yet. I do have a friend that uses the Toyo Proxes R888 series tires for road racing. The price doesn't seem to bad compared to some of the others.


Steve
Title: Re: Other tires for road racing
Post by: RPM on February 05, 2019, 12:34:28 pm
I would suggest going through and beefing up everything suspension related. We had a customer last year that brought his roadster in that was running a set of Hoosier slicks, I do not recall what compound he was running but it actually ripped the down tubing on the forward trailing arm mount out of the car. The welds held but it tore the tubing open from the extra grip. If you are going to be adding additional gripping force it would definitely not be a bad idea to gusset up and support whatever you can.

If I can find the pictures I will post them up.

Robert - RPM
Title: Re: Other tires for road racing
Post by: SCCAracer on February 22, 2019, 10:00:53 am
Anybody go to lower profile tire then a 60? Ive been playing with  discount tires online tire size which shows a pic. Wonder if a 50 or 40 series would would better on the front giving a better turn in response
Title: Re: Other tires for road racing
Post by: justfreaky on February 22, 2019, 10:34:25 pm
https://www.tirerack.com/tires/tiretech/techpage.jsp?techid=46&s_kwcid=AL!3756!10!77790503644834!30371469019&ef_id=W_yq7QAAAGas4WLA:20190223033126:s

Good read on how to determine tire size.
Title: Re: Other tires for road racing
Post by: jason117 on April 07, 2019, 06:04:13 am
I've run Yokohama semi slick tyres down here in Australia in hillclimbs and road course sprints, the only issue I've had is breaking the short side axle shafts,