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Location: Cannock | Hi All,
Just looking at buying some track biased tyres for the summer and wondered if anyone has had good / bad experiences with Kumho Esta V70a or Yokahama Advan A0048R tyres. Also wondering if as my car is so light as its stripped out to the minimum if I need to run soft or medium compounds.
As always, useful comments very much appreciated
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Location: Beds | Yoko 048's have been the pick of the bunch for some while. The soft compound is fine on a 1400 and would cope with a VVC but the total grip level doesn't really differ all that much. The effect is more to do with warm up time, probably not an issue if your just doing trackdays rather than racing.
Pretty much all the racers run them, although I have also seen a few Avons appearing.
The Toyo is reported to warm up faster but also goes off sooner. The new Nankang ones are supposed to be pretty good too, though I've not tried them myself.
Edited by 1380racer 1/3/2016 11:18 PM
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Location: Cannock | Thanks for the input, actually will be using the car for short sprint racing (1000 yards stuff) so a soft compound was where I was thinking might help get the tyres up to temp sooner rather than later
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Location: Herts | A048 in the soft compound be even better  |
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Location: leigh | I'm looking for a very grippy road tyre and I've been looking at the r888r.. it looks awesome are you running differant compound on the front and rear? |
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Location: Cannock | Running toyo proxies on the 14 inch rims but have a set of 7 spoke metro gti 13 inch wheels that will have track rubber on them. |
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Location: leigh | I was looking at getting some tyres for my 14s.. looks like most of the "track" tyres don't come in 195 45 14.. I will probably end up getting proxies and being dissatisfied with my self because I could be running racing car tyres lol |
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Location: Northwest | Im using proxys on my 195 45 14s,grip pretty well |
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Location: Swindon, Wilts | 14's rainsport 2's I found ether than the toyo tyre.
As for 13's nankang ns2r are also a very good tyre multiple compounds as well. I got some to go on mine I soft compound. Previously ran 048's on my mini, good but shit in damp/wet conditions |
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Location: Bromley, Kent | I have some Nankangs for sale that I did 380 miles in last year mostly motorway on my Metro GTi and found they gripped superbly and tbh I don't think my driving was anywhere near their grip limits. Look in the for sale section. |
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Location: Beds | Odd that you reckon the 048 is poor in the wet for a track tyre. I qualified 3rd fastest out of 40 odd cars at Silverstone GP in my bog stock 1400 in torrential rain. |
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Track day tyres for 160bhp K series Rover 100/Metro
