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Originally Posted by SeanRTR
CS was a lot of fun this year, great meeting everyone, and huge Thanks to Brian from HI and his friends for some good cold craft brews before hitting the road back to Detroit. The final runs with Fenter and Ogburn were pretty special. Great heroics by Dave to end up with the overall win. I think I was most impressed with Dave shifting to third gear four times on day one. I've said all year long that shit doesn't work, and he obviously proved me wrong. I changed tires on day two looking for some miracle speed and totally went the wrong way. Anyone else still going much slower on new RE71R's compared to 2/32nd tires?
Test N Tune was 39.1 on 30 run 225's, but the tires were very easy to drive on, and had good feedback, but I ran 38.7 on the 120 run 235's , and tires essentially made zero noise and felt vague (I saw two of Fenter's runs, 38.8,39.0). I went with the old tires for competition on day 1, and went for it with new tires on day 2. Day 1 the tires still felt vague, and the car was pushing, and again, no noise. usually zero noise from street tires means they're cycled out, and I did have 120+ runs and 8k of street miles, so I figured it was time to run the new tires on day 2, seeing as they're shorter and have better gearing. They weren't fast. Car felt fine, but the times were just slow. I don't get it. I tried the test at a local again last Sunday, and the old tires are still over half a second faster on a 40 second course. 35 run tires to essentially 135 run tires. Anyone else having these issues? I can't imagine my car is that much faster on 235's compared to 225's, but the tires don't even feel somewhat similar AT ALL.
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It was good meeting you Sean and it was fun/hair raising to work the course with the CP and DM cars.
RE: Tires. One of the guys from our local club just put on a new set of RE71R's for nationals (ES MR2 Sypder) and said he was struggling to put down a fast time also. I think he only had ~400-500 street miles on them and that was it. He is typically top 10 at local events, I think he was barely top half at nats. So perhaps the deeper tread depth on a new set is the problem.
I've got about 3-4/32nds on my current set that I'm burning up in a couple weekends at a TNT and local event. Then I'll be putting on a new set for the last couple events of the year and I can post my experience.