What are your winter plans???, For Autocrossers Options

[John_D.]

Fall, winter, sometime....

Mount the cutout switch. (it's just laying in the floorboard at the moment)

Things I already have sitting around that need to be installed:
Rear end cover, shift kit, svo 30 lb injectors, walbro pump (still running the stock v6 pump)

Things to get:
Aluminum rod ended lca's (pinion angle is out 4-5 degrees), couple of fittings to hook up the dry nitrous again

Might get the a/c on the car again. Need to get some hoses fabbed up with v8 ends on one end, and v6 ends on the other... From what I hear anyway.

Maybe a roll bar. Depends on ET at the strip, if I end up doing it over the winter, or the middle of next year.

Repaint that black metal piece between the t-tops.

Probably sfc's.

[Bald54]

I'm still paying for parts I bought this year. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) If I rob a bank in the spring I wouldn't mind doing heads and cam. Probably will add a B&M Hammer ratchet shifter. Tired of pushing too hard and missing gears. I think I'm going to stay with the Avons. Between my son and I we have 137 passes on them so far. Tires have been very competitive with unbelievable wear.

[00 SS]

I still have nationals and 3 events to go this Summer. Beyond that, I think my mods need to concentrate on tightening the loose nut behind the wheel. Next would be to continue trying to cure the intermittant long brake pedal syndrome and replace the front hubs. I may even look into a moderate weight loss plan,... for the car as well. Last, I need to study and learn more about suspension design, I hate not fully understanding it.

[TxAgZ28]

We don't get "winter" in central Texas (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

But during the holiday season, I'll probably throw some Koni SA's on to spice things up (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/cool.gif) I'm jonesing for the lower perch to squat the 4x4 look down a little (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/thumbup.gif)

[robz71lm7]

I'm still paying for parts I bought this year. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) If I rob a bank in the spring I wouldn't mind doing heads and cam. Probably will add a B&M Hammer ratchet shifter. Tired of pushing too hard and missing gears. I think I'm going to stay with the Avons. Between my son and I we have 137 passes on them so far. Tires have been very competitive with unbelievable wear.

How does the grip compare to V710's? With wear like that I may have found a new tire. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[ESPCamaro]

Rob I probably shouldn't answer for Steve but I think I can give an accurate accessment...

If I were to compare the Avon, grip wise to another tire it would be somewhere between a Kumho Victoracer, and a Kumho Ecsta V700. On big cars, with big tires like ours the Victoracers work great.
Ecstas or OK

From what I saw the Avon lasts FOREVER. And STILL has good grip. BUT an important note is that all of the passes on Steve's Avons have been on asphalt NOT concrete. Makes a big difference.

From what I have heard, and observed so far...The Hoosier is no longer the fastest tire. V710 is the tire to have!!

I do have evidence to back it up, and am to lazy to look it up. But trust me....This is coming from results, and observations put up by BIG, BIG, names in the sport. Tunnel, Ames Strelnieks, and in our game, Jorgenson.

[WOOS1]

New tires, new rear end, and LOTS OF SLEEP! (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[sgarnett]

FWIW, Dan Popp told me he thinks the new Hoosiers are slightly faster than the new Kumhos, but not by much, and probably not quite as fast as a fresh set of the old Hoosiers. He also said that the new Hoosiers take a lot more pressure than the old ones (many people probably running them too soft), and that he hasn't seen anyone cord the center of an A3S04 yet.

I've found that I'm fastest with the A3S04s inflated beyond the point where they feel or wear the best. In other words, when I think they are overinflated, they are about right (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) They seem to be wearing like iron though, even on some very old and abrasive concrete (many decades of weathering with little traffic to wear it smooth) and three events in a row on a very fast rough course on extremely grippy asphalt.

The main downside of the A3S04s in my opinion is that it's hard to get them hot enough on a low grip surface. At one event a few months ago on slick, sandy asphalt, Rob's tire temps were running over 10* higher than mine, and picking up a lot more debris in the grid. He was running 275-17 Victoracers and I was running 275-16 A3S04s. Both sets are about the same age and have comparable runs on them.

FWIW, I don't think Popp has any trouble getting a set of tires up to temperature quickly. It's amazing that they don't melt on the first turn.

For me though, there isn't much choice. The only current production 275/45-16 is the Hoosier x3S04. While I could use Kumho 265s on my 10" rims, I'm not inclined to do so - the Hoosiers fit "just right".

[ESPCamaro]

Tunnels account.....

Strelieks on V710's (has been a Hoosier guy he isn't a Kumho guy like Scotty, or Dave, or Brian Priebe)
Ames on Hoosiers

Ames was pulling the best 60fts and 200fts all weekend yet Strelniesks was putting .5 secnds EACH side on Ames

Jorgenson is now on V710's. At the Toledo Pro he was on VICTOS, and at the Peru Pro on V710's. IMO that is enough for me..

The Sias M3, whooping everyone in wendover (it did run a least some of saturdays runs on Victos but then switched to 710's)


The real advantage BY FAR of the Hoosiers is they heat MUCH faster than the old Hoosier. HOWEVER many folks are OVER heating them.
Sam even tried the road race compound Hoosier at the Peru Pro because of the overheating problem....


The Kumho 265/16 V710 could be nearly as wide as the 275 Hoosier. And a 265 can't be that bad. It was on the back of Dave's Cobra R last years ESP champ, and front and back on Jorgensons Cobra.


Some people forget that for the last 3 years the fastest DOT car has been on KUMHO.

[sgarnett]

I am impressed that the A3S04s seem to just keep getting better - no hint of falling off so far. I'm curious to see how they hold up over the winter if I don't cord them first.