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GTO
03-07-2005, 06:34 AM
Posted on behalf of a follow WRX-er.

He was kind enough to post me some before and after pics of the tires I'm intrested in putting on my car. I thought the people here intrested in auto-X might be intrested, remember that tires are the most important tunable part of a cars handling!

http://www.bridgestone.com.au/tyres/products/car/treads/re070.asp

These tires are tough but as you can see track days are expensive!

Well the tyres went pretty well. That is my first time back out since my new strut, spring and tyre combo and I managed to drop my time by about 1 second. The new spring strut combo seems to have put a bit of understeer back into the car so the tyres are what dropped my time really and did result in more chewing of the tyres than can be expected. Having said that I was stuffing around with pressures and never got them right, it was bloody hot out there as well. The beauty of them is that you can swap them from left to right to even up the wear.

BEFORE
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v324/xdr01/MIsc/trackday001A.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v324/xdr01/MIsc/trackday002A.jpg

AFTER
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v324/xdr01/MIsc/trackday006a.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v324/xdr01/MIsc/trackday007a.jpg
blah
03-07-2005, 08:12 AM
whose the chick in the last pic?
takata
03-07-2005, 09:48 AM
do u have the pics of the front tyres? i believe; tyre wear will be even more pronounced there
F3ckB9LL
03-07-2005, 11:39 AM
did you work 4 Bridgestone ..? :twisted:
Ghostbat
03-07-2005, 12:40 PM
do u have the pics of the front tyres? i believe; tyre wear will be even more pronounced there

It is the front tires..
GTO
03-08-2005, 01:44 AM
^yep as Ghostbat said that is the front tire, what your seeing is the left hand indicator that looks like a rear taillight.

Acutally the tire wear when i'm looked at mime is impressive. the reason i was looking at these tires because hard conering really chews the shoulders of the tires, mine are quite bad and had to pump up the tires to 36 PSI to minimise shoulder wear.
These tires are tough and the shoulders as you can see withstand the punishment. Unfortuantly I only have 7'' rims I need 7.5'' rims to fit 225 tires, so I have to hunt down some STi rims.

did you work 4 Bridgestone ..? :twisted:
Why would I try to sell tires to a kid that doesn't have a car? :roll:
sikx5
03-08-2005, 03:52 AM
That looks like a STi?

i see Brembos....*..drooooll...*

Those are semi slicks i think, they are sold only on the STi's. I poked my nail into one and it just swallowed it, so soft and smooth. The Falken Azenis are also a great option....We had a set on our STi and it gripped liked crazy, they were ST-115 if i remember correctly.
takata
03-08-2005, 04:52 AM
those are found stock on spec c and nsx-r

Azenis comes in 2 main flavours ... ST115 mainly for streets, not for tracks use as they "melts" there.

another which is like a semi slick
GTO
03-08-2005, 04:59 AM
That looks like a STi?

i see Brembos....*..drooooll...*

Those are semi slicks i think, they are sold only on the STi's. I poked my nail into one and it just swallowed it, so soft and smooth. The Falken Azenis are also a great option....We had a set on our STi and it gripped liked crazy, they were ST-115 if i remember correctly.
Yep an 02STi :drool:

Its an OEM tire specifically designed for the 05STi but you can buy it from bridgestone @$325 a corner.

Yeah the Falken Azenis are a great semi-track tire I was looking at the RT215, same compound as the ST115's. Might be a better cheaper option @$220 a corner.
http://www.stamfordtyres.com/tpl/products_falken_rt215.html

But in a month the RT615 comes out
http://www.vulcantire.com/azenis_rt615_t.htm
AE86Baz
03-08-2005, 09:04 AM
I have RE010s on my Integra R, and they perform similar at trackdays -

This is a front after a day at Oulton Park (UK)

http://www.evoposters.net/carpics2/Barrys_Stuff/CookedFronts.jpg

And this is a rear from the same day... its a bit too big to post into here directly:

http://www.evoposters.net/carpics2/Barrys_Stuff/FookedRears.jpg

They get a bit hot under extreme conditions, like chasing two M3s for ten laps ;) but overall I was quite pleased with the results.

I assume RE070s are a similar compound?
GTO
03-13-2005, 04:59 AM
^lol Baz those rears really do looked fooked allright, was it after rotation? why are the shoulders so bad at the rears? Extreme heat and excess tire pressure?
AE86Baz
03-14-2005, 10:35 AM
the rears are so bad because I was letting the backend hang out on the tighter bends/chicane etc :shock: The Integra does like to drift if you lift off at the right moment (or wrong moment)... :D
SPEEDCORE
03-15-2005, 11:03 AM
Umm why do u call them tires if u from Syd ;)

They dont look that bad, how many laps did he do? I seen worst from track days.

My OEM Bridgestone VR's lasted 50000km with 2 nails in them :D not really a track person but if i did do track work reg I would go out and get track day semi-legal tyres.

You mentioned he is running a MY02, on MY05 tyres, did he notice a large difference between the original OEM's and these for everyday use and wet weather?