turbogrill Posted January 18, 2018 Report Share Posted January 18, 2018 Some one called for more constructive threads, here is one! The RS-4 in 245/40/15 is sold out and will not be available before our next race. WHAT SHOULD I DOOO?? PANIC! Car is ~2700 lbs, some but not enough negative camber. These are my options on 15x10: - 225/45/15 RS4 - 245/40/15 VR-1 - 245/40/15 Rival S 1.5 So questions is, should I go down in width to be able to use the awesome RS4? Or will the 245 VR-1 be better? Any point of running the Rival S? (I haven't gotten the 15x10 steelies yet..) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginerd Posted January 18, 2018 Report Share Posted January 18, 2018 I would go with the Maxxis because: 1) Show a series sponsor some loving! 2) You might as well use this as an opportunity to get data on tires you haven't tried Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turbogrill Posted January 18, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2018 14 minutes ago, enginerd said: I would go with the Maxxis because: 1) Show a series sponsor some loving! Where is the discount! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Team Infiniti Posted January 18, 2018 Report Share Posted January 18, 2018 Free shipping? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alchemy Autosport Posted January 19, 2018 Report Share Posted January 19, 2018 22 hours ago, turbogrill said: Where is the discount! I actually talked to the Maxxis guy that handles the Champ Car deal at SEMA in November for quite some time about everything. I brought up the fact that there is no discount and he said that they could either do an up front discount for all or a top 5 contingency. And since more companies like being connected to winners, they felt it was the better way to go. I communicated that I felt that was maybe not the best path as I think you are missing out on a lot of teams that either dont make top 5s simply bc they dont care that much and just like racing for racing regardless of finish. He said that its all up for discussion in 2018. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenbo211 Posted January 19, 2018 Report Share Posted January 19, 2018 You can get the Rival Non-S from Jackson Motorsport group still. https://www.jacksonmotorsportsgroup.com/ Or do as suggested and try out Maxxis since you have to go with something you normally wouldn't use anyway. The other option is to look up a local Hankook dealer on their site rather than going through Tirerack.com and see if any of them can get your size of RS-4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technical Advisory Committee Chris Huggins Posted January 21, 2018 Technical Advisory Committee Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 Where did you find the Maxxis? I Have tires for Road Atlanta but I am concerned I will have to go back to azenis for VIRS since the RS4 seem sold out everywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turbogrill Posted January 22, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2018 On 1/20/2018 at 6:05 PM, Huggy said: Where did you find the Maxxis? I Have tires for Road Atlanta but I am concerned I will have to go back to azenis for VIRS since the RS4 seem sold out everywhere. Maxxis website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technical Advisory Committee Chris Huggins Posted January 22, 2018 Technical Advisory Committee Report Share Posted January 22, 2018 How? Edit: Just called Maxxis. They reported that the 245/40ZR15 size is due to their US warehouse sometime THIS week! So the size should appear on the web site as "orderable" after that happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technical Advisory Committee Andrew D Johnson Posted January 22, 2018 Technical Advisory Committee Report Share Posted January 22, 2018 Where is your next race? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snorman Posted January 22, 2018 Report Share Posted January 22, 2018 Does Maxxis offer a Champ discount as some other series sponsors do? S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technical Advisory Committee Ray Franck Posted January 22, 2018 Technical Advisory Committee Report Share Posted January 22, 2018 4 hours ago, red0 said: Where is your next race? Road Atlanta !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technical Advisory Committee Ray Franck Posted January 22, 2018 Technical Advisory Committee Report Share Posted January 22, 2018 1 hour ago, Snorman said: Does Maxxis offer a Champ discount as some other series sponsors do? S. Run them and podium get some free tires .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSRD Posted January 22, 2018 Report Share Posted January 22, 2018 1 hour ago, okkustom said: Run them and podium get some free tires .. FREE? Is that the case? I thought it was a discount. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technical Advisory Committee Ray Franck Posted January 23, 2018 Technical Advisory Committee Report Share Posted January 23, 2018 2 hours ago, KSRD said: FREE? Is that the case? I thought it was a discount. Dude this is champcar where our sponsors shower us with all the bootie . IF YOU WIN ON MAXXIS you get a set , other podium positions get rubber too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Team Infiniti Posted January 23, 2018 Report Share Posted January 23, 2018 25 minutes ago, okkustom said: WIN ON MAXXIS you get a set , other podium positions get rubber too Confirmed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miatainium Posted January 23, 2018 Report Share Posted January 23, 2018 AND you get a free t-shirt? Sign me up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSRD Posted January 24, 2018 Report Share Posted January 24, 2018 oh... interesting. May have to look into that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators E. Tyler Pedersen Posted January 25, 2018 Administrators Report Share Posted January 25, 2018 If Maxxis actually made the 225/45/15 I would give them a try Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenbo211 Posted January 25, 2018 Report Share Posted January 25, 2018 Good news. Tirerack.com is starting to put availability dates to some of the RS-4's that the pulled from the site when they ran out of stock. Price went up about $8 per tire after shipping from the same ones I bought last year, but at least there's an availability date on there now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenbo211 Posted February 22, 2018 Report Share Posted February 22, 2018 Dunlop ZIIIs are starting to show up on Tire Rack.Interesting, But I'll wait to hear from other teams whether they've done what it seems all other tire manufacturers besides Hankook has done. Pandered to the Autocross crowd and made them softer so they can get good reviews in Grassroots Motorsports Magazine.And at 10% ($21 for my size) more per tire than the Zii and 29% ($63 for my size) more than the R-S4, unless someone says they have double the grip with the same durability as the R-S4, there is no way I'll ever buy them.My prediction is Dunlop is going to have a rude awakening once they realize these things aren't flying off the shelf like they did before the R-S4 came out. I'm surprised the don't already realize this since tirerack.com has had the Zii on clearance for the last 4 months and still haven't cleared out the shelves.I'll guess we'll see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Originalsterm Posted February 22, 2018 Report Share Posted February 22, 2018 The "clearance" price of the ZII's is actually a tad more than I paid for them "normally" priced from TireRack. I need to pull the trigger on two sets of something because we have 8 bald tires and a race coming up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turbogrill Posted February 22, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2018 I ended up with the Maxxis tires 245s on 15x10 steelies. Looks awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenbo211 Posted February 22, 2018 Report Share Posted February 22, 2018 2 hours ago, Originalsterm said: The "clearance" price of the ZII's is actually a tad more than I paid for them "normally" priced from TireRack. I need to pull the trigger on two sets of something because we have 8 bald tires and a race coming up. I wouldn't bother with the Zii's unless you've already used them and can get them to last around 20 hours for you. The R-S4 will last that long or more for anyone I've talked to and are within 5% of the same grip. Only potential negative I've heard from anyone about them is a propensity to flat spot. Not something I've experienced and I don't have ABS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pintodave Posted February 23, 2018 Report Share Posted February 23, 2018 Holy chit. Ziii's are up to $220/tire ,are you kidding me? We might be good on tires for Daytona but I am really tempted to test a set of Maxxis... just because. @Team Infiniti you guys still running these? Any other feedback on feel/grip/wear VS the other popular players in the tire game (Zii, Ziii, RS3)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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