Past Projects
In the fall of 2001 Ryan and I started assembling and modifying cars together. All started in different forms, some from scratch, others from near full build requiring only tweaking and tuning. Nevertheless, all of these cars have been ours… we have a tendency to go through a lot: lots that never even made mention here, and some that I spent hours writing and thinking about. It is some form of A.D.D…. really. In the first few years after we teamed up, neither of us managed to make it through a single season with one car. They came and went. Mostly it was because we liked to dream, but it was also partly because there was always someone willing to buy. Cash just looks so good.
Note: These charts are for fun. Don’t confuse them for us being hard core and bad ass. Check it out.
Now, I don’t doubt that you overheat the Dunlops. But could it be because of a size that is entirely too narrow for you, as opposed to a characteristic of the tire itself?
yah it’s likely. Other cars of similar weight that competitively run Dunlops, typically wear 225’s. The Falkens are 10mm wider and taller which will help.
I may be more educated and a better driver than I used to be… but I’ve run on 185’s a lot in the past without noticing such a drastic fall off.
on another note: I DESPISE UPS. Paid $65 each for my tires… +$24.73 each UPS brokerage. I vow constantly to never use UPS… but somehow always do.
Yah… Falken’s are cheap.
Interesting. I’ve been running Falken RT615 and everyone’s been telling me to go to starspecs, so I was gonna go the opposite direction. I do tend to spin more running on the RT615 (hard to feel it’s limits) but when I do register a clean run it’s quite good. Though I’m running 215/45R17 on a Tiburon. I need some new rubber and now see they’ve added a K to the 615. What is so new about the 615K as opposed to before?
The consensus is that the Star Specs are better than RT-615’s… and the auto-x community has pretty much walked away from Falken since. I wonder if people will return now??? The 615K is supposed to be substantially better.
Falken made this… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrlfZp-hDCg
And their website has some details on it too… http://www.falkentire.com/Tires/Passenger-Car/Azenis-RT-615K-14