RE: tires for 15x7 wheels.

["Shannon Fenton" <sfenton@amazon.com>]

Sorry for the late response. Yeah I have the T1-S Proxies...and I have to
say they are the best I have ever driven on or with. Wet traction (its been
known to rain in Seattle) is superior to any "wet" tire. Not too noisy, wear
is good for a Ultra High Performance street tire. Off the line traction in
my opinion is better with a little heat in them.

However you'll want to stay away from the Toyo FZ4's. A buddy had a set and
the cracked along the sidewalls real bad. And all the sets I have seen since
all have bad sidewall cracking. This on 17s mind you.

Shannon Fenton
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-----Original Message-----
From: Randy B [mailto:sirocco@telocity.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 10:54 PM
To: Shawn C Meze; Shannon Fenton; geordy
Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Subject: Re: tires for 15x7 wheels.


He he he.
Thanks for the reminder, kinda hoped everyone forgot about that slight error
in judgement.
I have bashed the SP8K's (vocally and physically) in the past but I still
consider them to be excellent tires.
I am currently still running them on Mars to use up the tread so I can mount
racing tires on the Revolutions.
The AVS Intermediate (on the Ronal R-10's on Cosmos) are also excellent
tires.
After driving on the Toyo T1-S's though I now cosider them to be *king of
the hill* of tires for our cars.
If you wan't the ultimate tire for your 15X7, go for the 215/45/15 Toyo
T1-S.
I ran these on my RS's for a couple months until I put the Revolutions back
on and LOVED them .
Besides being awesome on the dry, they are better than ANY tire I've ever
driven on in the wet.
Put it this way I believe they will outcorner (in the wet) my 195/50/15
AVS's (in the dry).
Shannon, you are running the T1-S's  right, and you live in rain country?

Randy (back from vacation)
81 (Mars) Scirocco S - Techtonics Tuning 1847cc 8V
81 (Cosmos) Scirocco S - my stock time capsule for now

----- Original Message -----
From: "Shawn C Meze" <skerocdriver@juno.com>
To: <sfenton@amazon.com>
Cc: <scirocco-L@scirocco.org>
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 4:39 PM
Subject: Re: tires for 15x7 wheels.


>
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2001 08:43:00 -0700 "Shannon Fenton" <sfenton@amazon.com>
> writes:
> >Yeah ask RandyB...the resident Dumblop tire tester.
> >
>
>
> Yeah, apparently the SP8000's lock up easy on MK-I's or something. They
> do take one hell of a curb beating from what *I* saw....  :)
>
> I like the set that are on my 84 roc. I had them on my 82 for awhile and
> they're too grippy. (Meaning, ill wear them out faster than hell if I
> keep them on the car.)
>
>
> Shawn Méze
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> 82' Scirocco GTi -FSP 54-     79' "Project FSP Scirocco"
> The Fastest, Quickest, Cleanest and best looking Scirocco in all of San
> Diego!
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