What kinda tires and wheels are you running Mike? Your 9.5 will work for anything you can fit on our cars. If your thinking race tires, you really need to look at 285-30--18's, They fit better then the 275's. Now if they are street tires i'd just run 265's, Thats plenty of meat unless you get a good deal on some 275's. Understand that its not neccasarily the fenders that are going to cause you problems. There are body seams (front) and the rear fender bolt that throw a wrench in the equation.

 

I dont recall having any issues with you. Can you please explain why you are being hostile towards me?

Not a sh]t stirrer. what, do you think i am taking money out of travs pocket or something?


I am not going anywhere. I wake up every morning thinking about what to do next on evom. besides, i still have over 45 points to go till this account goes inactive.

 

First thanks Brian, Paul and Jeremy for the feedback. I currently have the Enkei NT03+M's that Robi sells and they are 17 x 9.5 +38 . With that said I'm running Bridgestone Potenza RE050a's at 255/40/17 the section width is 10.3" and the only place it rubs right now is the front ever so slightly at full lock. Even though my bridgestones did ok, they are not a track or time attack tire like I had hoped. I am now looking at Nitto NT-05's and Dunlop Z1 Star spec's. I know the leading street tire in time attack this year will probably be the Bridgestone RE-11 or Advan AD-08 but those are almost 100 more then the Nitto's and 70 more then the Dunlops per tire. NT-05 is 10.1" section width and dunlop is 10.4" section width in 255/40/17. The NT-05 is 10.79 in 275/40/17. The 10.3" Bridgestones I have now clear the rear fender by a C hair. So the only one that would fit now is the NT-05 in 255, the Dunlop in 255 might need a slight roll and the NT-05 in 275 would need totally rolled. I just don't know if the 275 is worth the effort for performance gain or not. Hopefully that's not hard to follow it is long though..lol

 

I was wondering if anyone is interested in doing a Karting day at Beaverun this weekend or possibly next weekend. I need 8 more people to make this happen to rent out the Wilson Circuit for the day!! I have 4 people that already are signed up and ready to go. I am hoping to get 12 in total at the price of $50 a person. This includes practice laps, heat 1, Timed session 1, timed session 2. That may vary depending on what we want to do when we get there. Remember prices for cooperate events are usually 100 dollars an hour per kart!! This is a very good deal and the more people i get the cheaper it will be! PM me if you are interested so i can make a list of the people that are going.

-Dan

 

Hmm i might be interested ^ ill ask parents tonight and let you know a little l8r

 

Well I see a nice shlt storm rolled thru today!!! Kinda unfortunate that I had nothing to do with it WTF!!!!!

 

to everyone that PM'ed me about Karting. I will get more information out to you tonight when i hear back from Beaverun...it should be no more then $50 if i get 14 people. It may even go up to 16-20 openings depending on how much interest i get..which will lower the price even more. Each session is about 15-20 minutes.

date is March 22nd at noon..for now. If it changes i will notify!

 

I am on my way to meet up with the silver supra! lol will let you know whats up

 

Well Mike, you should also look into if there are any restrictions in tire size in any events that you might be interested in. I kno Redline Time attacks have a maximum tire size of 255 for there street tire class. So do a few others. Now if you don't care about that, its still a toss up. I've read about many people who have tested both sizes and found that the 255 is no slower then the 275. Now please understand this is sorta a HP related thing. I would say a typical modded EVO with the usual bolt-on's would be better off with the 255. Now if you were a bigger turbo, big HP car then i'd say the 275's. Now my choice for track tires this year will be 285-18's for the hills and auto-x, and a set of 255 -17's for track days and Time attacks. I beleive the 255 will be plenty fast!

 

Hi eric, my name is dan. First time poster long time listener of your work. I too have a stock evo. Would you like to race in 2 weeks? Say march 28 of 2009?

 

I didnt talk to him today but Im sure they got the install done. Tomoro is dyno day I would guess.

 

Sorry i can't do the go cart thing. Sounds like fun!.

Mike, I was thinking back and you have a pretty darn nice setup going. Why not some race rubber? Altho those new tires are pretty darn close to race rubber

 

Today I ordered some BUSHINGS

Wooohoooo!

 

Dan,

I would have never thought to find Quantum Mechanics in the Pittsburgh Thread. However, if you'd like to discuss negative probabilities such as outlined in your post above in more depth I'd be happy to over a few beers.


Hell we can even race.

 

Say WHAT!!!! Do tell do tell!!!