Here is the thing. I'm looking to buy the hankook RS-3 but for almost the same price I can get a set of Kumho V700. I know that they are for the track and they won't last or survive on the street but my S2K is my weekend drive and I put only about 200 miles a month.

Another thing to consider is wet traction since I live in Puerto Rico and its rain 3 of the 7 days of the week. I don't use the car when is raining but I don't want to be far from home and suddenly start to rain with no proper tires. What do you think?

 

If rain is your concern I would use the Dunlop Star Specs. By far the best wet weather traction from all the UHP's.

 

the victoracer v700 would be a bad ass tire for weekend warrior that hardly sees rain. i drive my s2k on toyo RA1 tires, similiar to the v700 your looking at. they are fine in the rain, until they wear down to the dry only section, then they will suck in the rain.

mine are 100 thread wear and have lasted over 8k miles so far. i feel theres another 4-6k left in them.

if you get caught in the rain, just drove appropriately. driving fairly slow will be fine.

 

The problem is they will pick up a lot of stuff off the road and can be damaged very easily. You would also be using up the race tires for street driving.

 

Good point !!!1

 

Awful choice for the road. I drove on a set from Providence RI to Watkins Glen NY for a two-day track event, then from Providence to Mosport Ontario for another two-day track event (sharing the car, so equivalent to 4 track days). They were corded by the end of the 2nd event. Also, in a downpour just outside of Providence on the way to Mosport, they were just about undriveable (i.e., I was skittering all over the place at ~45mph while traffic was cruising along at 60+).

And I doubt they have as much grip as RS-3s, Star Specs, RE11s or AD08s before they get warmed up. Which they never will on the street.

Terrible choice for street tires and I strongly recommend against it!

 

[QUOTE=ZDan,Jul 2 2010, 07:30 AM] Awful choice for the road.

 

Camber doesn't agressively wear tires in the fashion he was describing. Toe does.

If you're going to run race tires on the street there's better Extreme Perf. Street tire choices like the Dunlop Star Specs, Kumho XS, and Nitto NT05.

 

everyone says toe kills tires, but i had stock toe setting with uk spec camber, and it ate my tires. if you ride on the inside of a tire more then the outside, why woudlnt it kill the inside faster then the outside?

on the street you do not kit corners near hard enough to roll the tire flat. so why run extra camber in the first place?


OP, are you FI? i ask cuase on my 340whp, i couldnt catch traction until 3rd gear until i went to the RA1 tires. now i can hold first gear

 

UK spec alignment shouldn't eat tires. UK spec Toe and camber isn't aggressive at all.

Aggressive camber settings are more than 3 degrees negative. Even so, if the toe settings are +.4 or under you shouldn't see excessive wear that would constitute "eating" tires.