pros and cons of each with personal experience?? reviews??

I'm about to wear out my Azenis that I track only and I'd like to try a diff tire.....and get food for thought as well....

Discuss..

 

 

Do your job......help the HT world out....haha

 

if you are using tires for track only why not buy something in an r compound?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Thrashin &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">if you are using tires for track only why not buy something in an r compound?</TD></TR></TABLE>

more expensive, wear faster, not ideal to learn on an unforgiving r-tire.

 

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more expensive, wear faster, not ideal to learn on an unforgiving r-tire.</TD></TR></TABLE>

he said "I'm about to wear out my Azenis that I track only" so assuming hes already worn through azenis just from track days i thought he would have done a pretty extensive amount of laps

i see what you are saying though. i was just wondering why he wouldnt try an r compound.

still got that steering wheel?

 

hey guys......yeah my first set of azenis since I starting tracking about a year ago.....7 or 8 days on track, but I did many sessions so I didn't get the normal 4 sessions a day more like 6 on average a day.....

I'm sticking to street tires, my hatch is not daily driven but I do drive it once iin a while (still register'd) so R compounds are no where in my future till I get more seat time on street tires...

 

I plan on giving the MX's a try. I hope it doesn't rub as much as Azenis. Ride Low.

 

I just go a set of Kumho MX's from tirerack.com two weeks ago...I can't wait for spring.

 

The MX handles heat better than the 215......but the 215 is going bye bye
to be replaced by the 615

from the specs and test data I have seen, the 2 ( MX and 615) tires are actually very comparable

I'll have a set of the 615 you can try in a few weeks Joser





Modified by kineticgsr at 12:28 PM 2/18/2005

 

speaking to chris about that already.....too bad I"ll bre broke here soon...hahhaa

 

I've heard nothing but good things about the Kumho MX

A buddy of mine had them and loved them.

 

If you are going to use this for TRACK ONLY, you might want to consider TOYO.

 

i got a lot of passes at the track on Azenis but i could cut nothing bet then a 2.1 60 foot but there a nice street tire an i have never tryed the kumho but i did u have a pair of bfg g force drag radial and they lasted about 4weeks on the street sorry i know u did ask about the bfg but that was the only other tire i have used

 

I got azenis

 

i have azenis....but i the MXs were next on my list.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Thrashin &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">still got that steering wheel?</TD></TR></TABLE>

just unloaded it last week.

&lt;--- probably gonna pick up some MXs when his 215s wear out, assuming the vulcan prices on the 615s are accurate. anyone auto-x on the mx? from what i hear they are slowish to heat up and just plain not that good at full tread... anyone?

 

Azenis aka cheaters make u launch crazy on the streets but with a treadwear of 200 they will go like nothing esp for daily driving. I am a true fan of the azenis even tho they wear out fast cuz there amazing traction! I am a die hard FALKEN AZENIS fan. jus save up money and have another set waiting in the garage or something. NOTE: these are words from a avid street racer!

 

azenis are meant for drag racing?/

 

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and thats why we will ignore them.

on to the topic, i love my 205/50 mx's. good tire, good value, and all around a much better tire than azeni's IMO, because there is more to a tire than how it does on the track obviously.

 

I had them for 9 months and even with rotating them every 3000 miles the metal bars were showing. awesome tire, but didn't last very long at all

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Si Erik &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I had them for 9 months and even with rotating them every 3000 miles the metal bars were showing. awesome tire, but didn't last very long at all </TD></TR></TABLE>

Which tire are you talking about, the Azenis or the MX?

And how many miles did they last? 9 months could be 5K miles or 50K...

 

mx's and it was like 17k miles or something

 

17k seems like good mileage to me out of a high performance tire they are cheap as hell anyways

 

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Seriously?

Is that everybody else's experience?

I feel like an idiot but I'm having a hard time deciding on what to put on my ITR to replace an aging set of 215-45-16 RT215's.