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Old 11-16-2015, 11:12 AM   #1 (permalink)
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In for the RE-71R comparison.

I find it interesting that these worked well for you in the recent rains in Houston. My experience with RE-11s was once they were under about 5/32" tread wear, they hydroplaned like crazy in any amount of standing water; I was afraid to drive over 40 mph in them once water started collecting on the roads.
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What's your F / R camber degrees?

My fronts do NOT wear like that @ the track.

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What's your F / R camber degrees?

My fronts do NOT wear like that @ the track.

-2.0 degress. The wear is because of the amount of toe-in I had set at the front, which was close to stock.
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What's your F / R camber degrees?

My fronts do NOT wear like that @ the track.

stock suspension and specs running typically 32-34 PSI

my fronts last year on a 265/305 RE-11 setup still have at least 70/75% left after 13k miles. rears still had a little bit about wear bar maybe 4.5/32nds

these tires are great. the current set is still going strong as well. sadly car goes into hibernation soon sooooo time to burn the rears off.
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stock suspension and specs running typically 32-34 PSI

my fronts last year on a 265/305 RE-11 setup still have at least 70/75% left after 13k miles. rears still had a little bit about wear bar maybe 4.5/32nds

these tires are great. the current set is still going strong as well. sadly car goes into hibernation soon sooooo time to burn the rears off.
With that in mind, what sort of "track" experience are you talking?

Road corse / 1/4 mile / Auto-x ?
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With that in mind, what sort of "track" experience are you talking?

Road corse / 1/4 mile / Auto-x ?
1/4 and road plus backroads and many many dragon/hellbender runs that torture tires lol no auto-x. lets just say the straight pipes were not welcomed by the 50 year old men who frequent autox and run the event in their gay little Miata shitboxes

I had a brand new set of PSS's and the in one of the turns the front left tires shoulder rolled on me and the butthole puckered a bit.

RE-11s haven't done any of that yet and I feel I pushed harder this past year than any on parts of the dragon and they held
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In for the RE-71R comparison.

I find it interesting that these worked well for you in the recent rains in Houston. My experience with RE-11s was once they were under about 5/32" tread wear, they hydroplaned like crazy in any amount of standing water; I was afraid to drive over 40 mph in them once water started collecting on the roads.
I'd check your pressures. Running a pressure close to OEM will get you a better contact patch where the channels are located. I would say even with that amount of wear and moderate rain (excluding standing water of course) I had no trouble doing at least 60mph
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