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Old 06-17-2006, 10:54 AM
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Originally Posted by benebob
Problem is you're dealing with the tuner class. Not the racer classes. Everything to them is all about bigger is better when in reality it'll make the car much harder to drive. Your best bang for the buck is with a set of used r compounds which will get you about .5 to a full second on most courses. If you learn to drive a car that is set up w/o them when you do go to them you're tire costs will be 2x as much as you'll overdrive the tires.

Then again, you can't brag about tires as much as a stiffer bar increases your manhood.

I dunno if i'd agree with that neccesarily... Many times when driving a stock susp. car, you tear the heck out of the tires because of the geometry causing toe/camber upon compression. many people rip up the outside of the tires on their cars.

I still find the term "overdriving the tires" a bit... out there.
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