James' LCR - 2008cc Stroker HTA GT3071r! - Tuned @ Badger5

[Murdered LCR]

Erm **** all those off either get Yokohama ado8s or toyo r1r with that power you want some thing decent not any of those , I'm going to be running ad08s 245/40/18 for your 225/40/18 there £156 each for ado8 and £180 each r1r all on camskill don't cheap out on half decent tyres on the thing that keeps you on the road

 

[JordanMk3]

Yoko S Drives are meant to be up there too.. Not too sure how much they cost in your size. I can roughly see it being in the same region as the set of Michelins..

 

[Ronin225]

AD08's are the way forward, i've ran a couple of sets of vreds now including track time and they are very good but would choose AD08 if i had the choice.

 

[ibizacupra]

vred sessantas on my s6... ok tyres, but they wore out too quick for me for normal road use.. less than 10k on all 4

f1 assy on there now.. ok, so far

AD08s on badgerwagen 245-40-17 on its 9j rims
supposed to the dogs... will see in a week or so..

 

[james.l]

Thank you all for the comments, is there a disadvantage to running a track day tyre on a predominantly road car??

 

[Murdered LCR]

Nope not really the ad08s are for all conditions , 500bhp you need decent rubber

 

[Dan1720v]

Other than noise and ability to do standing water... I've been in a car that had AD08's, yeh they grip, but my god avoid water!

 

[james.l]

Other than noise and ability to do standing water... I've been in a car that had AD08's, yeh they grip, but my god avoid water!

See this is my worry about a track tyre on a road car. There will come a day when I need to drive it in the wet and I don't want to write the car of because I chose the wrong tyre.

 

[Dan1720v]

IMO, get 2 sets of wheels, 1 set for track tyres, and 1 for road/wets. Having had an aqua planing moment in a car with track biased tyres, you'll be surprised how little it takes to get it going. And how much it takes to get back.

 

[james.l]

That's not a bad idea, but I think I will get the road/wet tyre sorted first as it will still be a good all rounder just won't have as good grip as a track tyre.

 

[ibizacupra]

See this is my worry about a track tyre on a road car. There will come a day when I need to drive it in the wet and I don't want to write the car of because I chose the wrong tyre.

AD08 are road tyres, not track tyres..
it how I can run them... on list 1a not track day list 1b

 

[Dan1720v]

Well, its a track biased road tyre then

 

[Murdered LCR]

Are you driving the car daily ?

Alot of my mates run ad08s on there daily cars they say there fine loads better than Pradas in the wet , I'm sure if your sensible and it's wet you won't nail the grannies out the car , altho you have near 500bhp you don't have to use the right foot as a on off switch ,drive like a **** with any tyre and 500bhp your going to crash drive it sensible your be fine

 

[Dan1720v]

Tbh, Better than prada's in the wet isnt much of a compliment

 

[james.l]

Did a bit of work on the car this afternoon and took out the speed sensor from the gearbox and plastic welded the port where the loom connects to it back on, this has cured the lack of speedo and has also cured the dodgy fuel gauge, amazes me how a speed sensor can have such an effect on the car. Thank for pointing this out bill.

Took the car for its first drive in the dry since having it back and all I can say is wow! It handles the power surprisingly well for such a powerful FWD car, this is down to the smooth power delivery. In the dry wheel spin isn't really a problem the car copes really well.

Just need to give it a clean now after the filthy drive home on Saturday

 

[paul-murphys]

just read this mate its awesome look forward to seeing this at inters you going to be running it on the 1/4 mile

 

[JDUB 20V]

Did a bit of work on the car this afternoon and took out the speed sensor from the gearbox and plastic welded the port where the loom connects to it back on, this has cured the lack of speedo and has also cured the dodgy fuel gauge, amazes me how a speed sensor can have such an effect on the car. Thank for pointing this out bill.

Took the car for its first drive in the dry since having it back and all I can say is wow! It handles the power surprisingly well for such a powerful FWD car, this is down to the smooth power delivery. In the dry wheel spin isn't really a problem the car copes really well.

Just need to give it a clean now after the filthy drive home on Saturday

I had a similar issue with speedo/fuel gauge on my VR6, weird how that happens

 

[JDUB 20V]

Think we need pictures now..

 

[james.l]

Car is still filthy

What do you want pics of?

 

[james.l]

just read this mate its awesome look forward to seeing this at inters you going to be running it on the 1/4 mile

I might be tempted If it's dry.