[mkiv] Sumitomo HTR Z III's?

[John Cribb]

Thanks Shawn, yeah, pretty much what I'd found as well. 

I've taken the plunge and will try them out. Ordered 245/40-18 for the front
and 285/35-18 for the rears. The plan is to eventually move my 18" Volk
F-Zero Challenge wheels to the '94 car and purchase some CCW's for the '97,
so I didn't want to get too aggressive with the tire sizes. 

Hope I can finally get some traction with the 285's, as with the 275 Kumho's
that are on it now, and are fairly worn, the rears still break loose in 4th
when we're on boost.

John
'97 APU
'94 BPU


-----Original Message-----
From: mkiv-bounces at mkiv.com [mailto:mkiv-bounces at mkiv.com] On Behalf Of
Shawn Davis
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 8:43 PM
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Subject: Re: [mkiv] Sumitomo HTR Z III's?


I have no direct experience with them, but someone just asked the same
question on the 911 board.  Generally they seem to be getting good feedback:

http://forums.rennlist.com/rennforums/showthread.php?t=400117

Shawn

On Jan 2, 2008 8:41 PM, John Cribb <johnacribb at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Has anyone tried the 3rd generation HTR's from Sumitomo? Tire Rack 
> apparently like them.....a lot.
>
> They're supposed to be MUCH better than the HTR Z II's which gained a 
> very bad reputation for noise and wet traction as they aged.
>
> The HTR Z III's are apparently now TireRack's #1 Max Performance 
> Summer tire, beating out Bridgestones, Continentals, and Yokohama's.
>
> They're so new there's no extended use data on them yet, but here are 
> Tire Rack's inhouse test results:
>
> http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tests/testDisplay.jsp?ttid=93
>
> John
> '97 APU
> '94 BPU
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