Originally Posted by cepx111
Any particular brand recomendations?
I've used just about every tire brand out there, hoosier, M/T goodyear, phoenix.
I've had good and bad luck out of most but the Phoenix FX tire seems to last longer, hook harder and be more consistent (run-out)
your thoughts here TopspeedLowet?
Thx, Cp
I have used them all with various levels of performance and had good results with all different performance usages. For instance, If I had a tire sponsor and wanted the ultimate performance tire for a 8 second or quicker door car I would choose the good year tire with a stiff side wall and D1 compound and have the best tire available, but a tire that has the shortest useful life span. I expect in a 8.0 car to run near 55 excellent passes, or a few more baring no abuse to them like shake or J Force burn outs. The Phoenix FX tires you like are excellent firestone molds and are very fast and light. They seem to work excellent in slow to 10.0 sec car that is between light and 3400# or so. I think they are great but do not offer larger tires. They cater primarly to stocker's and mini tub cars, and fill that market real well. I noticed that they last for ever as well when I ran them. I feel that Good years are the best general tire manufacturer, and you can find a tire compound and diameter / width that will fit your car correctly, but they are expensive and may not perform as long and Mickey thompsons or Phoenix can. The Phoenix tires are a nitch that good year does not have a full line assortment of and make Phoenix in the 9.99 and slower cars my second favorite to good years. As far as roll out matching that is your suppliers issue or how they are mounted more likely. When they are mounted and air pressure is at say 20# to screw the rims the tires are getting stretched out. This is why I make sure that I have both tires from the moment I mount them at the same pressure for the same time period while I screw the rims to the tires and not a moment longer than necessary to do the job. This is how you match tire roll out by stretching the smaller tire with tire pressure for so many min to break the chords in the tire. Guys do this un knowing that they are screwing up a perfect matched set of tires by leaving the mounting pressure in the tires to long or unequal.
Sorry that I did not see that you asked my 2 cents. here's a buck
I hope this helps out
