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yea just got new rear tires myself my last one lasted for a year maybe i have bad alignment or something i havent got that part check but yeah busy

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Old 05-26-2012, 12:47 PM   #211 (permalink)
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yea just got new rear tires myself my last one lasted for a year
maybe i have bad alignment or something i havent got that part check
but yeah busy with work as well so if anything is planned i guess ill be down last sunday of the month so i can checkout super car sunday as well
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Wow 1 yr, How many mile are you driving? if only one is wearing prematurely you may have something out of wack
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yeah could be a lot of things, wear is pretty even on both sides(a tad bit on passenger side) but mostly insde coz of my negative camber
i dunno ill live with it for now lol
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Old 05-28-2012, 02:04 AM   #214 (permalink)
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Tru your mods look like they're overpowering your stock sized tires unless you've somehow got 265's/305's. Assuming you have enough tire the right tire pressure is critical to not burning thru them in a year. What are you running? Hotchkis sways up front are possibly too stiff for street, and the car cant lean onto the tires for traction so you have to run too much camber.

I was big on canyons after one run with Trips and Christian but after that they stopped going and nobody wanted to get up early enough to avoid traffic so I gave up. Turns out it's slightly deadly too, what with zero room for error although you do have options -option one being CANYON and option two being CANYON WALL. Option 3 could be head-on or t-bone with mom and dad taking junior to church, or a downhill skateboarder. I have a kid that needs me to come home after a fun drive, so calling home to say I'll be late from jail, the body shop, or from the bottom of a canyon is not an option anymore.

So those of us who, like you, modded our Z's to track specs and have the balls to DRIVE the beast we created go to the track about once a month. Turns out there are several extremely inexpensive managed track day options in Southern CA that everybody in the nation is jealous of. Hundred, hundred ten bucks max. All inclusive. The rest of the track guys pay upwards of $300, drive for days, hotels, trailers, so tedious.. We compete in sponsored events, win oil changes, parts at cost. Nobody dies. Nobody messes up their precious Z. I put two wheels off track ONCE in 4 visits.

There a a bunch of cool events coming up, and your profile lists you as a Track Member.... PM me if you want to know more. Maybe we'll "Z" you there!

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Wow 1 yr, How many mile are you driving? if only one is wearing prematurely you may have something out of wack
heeheehee, my stock tires are going out pretty soon due to 7 Auto-X events and 3 canyon runs.

But wear is all around even. I like going all out stock, makes you find ways to go fast and trains you to be more sensitive to our the car behaves.
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If you haven't hit the tracks yet except for auto-x only, u'll enjoy bigwillow/buttonwillow etc. We need to convert more people into meeting at the track..................................
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