Performance 15 inch tires
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Racer
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From: Christchurch Canterbury
Performance 15 inch tires
Seems you can't find high performance 15 inch tires to suit muscle cars?
Surely there must be enough demand?
Perhaps these types of forums sould lobby a manufacturer to produce a a small range of grippy high speed rated 15 inch tires for thoses whom wish to say with factory fitment rims?
Something is needed between the BFG style tire and full race radials.
Say 245 through 275 sizes
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Surely there must be enough demand?
Perhaps these types of forums sould lobby a manufacturer to produce a a small range of grippy high speed rated 15 inch tires for thoses whom wish to say with factory fitment rims?
Something is needed between the BFG style tire and full race radials.
Say 245 through 275 sizes
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Racer
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From: Christchurch Canterbury
I priced some Avon but they were I think from memory over $700 ea and not road legal.
Need a reasonably priced z rated tire
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Racer
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From: Christchurch Canterbury
Just reading some other forums reviews on these, saying they will do 10,000 miles of road use on a cobra
Would be nice if some one would produce a tire that would perform like a modern 17-18-19 inch in 15 inch and be in the same price bracket as high performance street tires
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Racer
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From: Christchurch Canterbury
I owned a Tire and Auto shop here in New Zealand.
Some of our suppliers would send a name brand tire to china, a chinese manufacture would R and D the tire ( rip off and duplicate) and produce a tire with your branding.
I am not saying that anyone would want a chinese produced tire on there muscle car, but you would think there would be enough demand from muscle car owners, that if a US manufacturer was to produce a high performance tire in larger sizes to suit 7-10 inch rims, that performed like a modern tire, there would be many takers? fill the gap between a BFG T/A type tire and a race tire.
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There are none and there never will be now, the main reason I went to 18 inch rims and Ultra High Performance ZR rated Toyo T1R tires, they really make a difference in how the Vette handles, feels like a sports car now 
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Racer
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Yes I went to 17's on my camaro for the same reason, I just really like vette on ralle wheels....
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The best 15" tire is the Avon CR6ZZ at about $300 each. elle88 is running them on his clone.
Thread with pics and a report here:
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c3-t...von-cr6zz.html
Thread with pics and a report here:
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c3-t...von-cr6zz.html
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Racer
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From: Christchurch Canterbury
The best 15" tire is the Avon CR6ZZ at about $300 each. elle88 is running them on his clone.
Thread with pics and a report here:
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c3-t...von-cr6zz.html
Thread with pics and a report here:
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c3-t...von-cr6zz.html
240/60VR15" Avon CR6 ZZ @ $663.75 each
275/55VR15" Avon CR6 ZZ @ $753.75 each
Plus $160 per tire freight.....
These tires sound like the performance deal in 15's but price is OTT for me.
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Well, just got some pricing from our local supplier, Avons are indent order only, these are the prices he quoted
240/60VR15" Avon CR6 ZZ @ $663.75 each
275/55VR15" Avon CR6 ZZ @ $753.75 each
Plus $160 per tire freight.....
These tires sound like the performance deal in 15's but price is OTT for me.
240/60VR15" Avon CR6 ZZ @ $663.75 each
275/55VR15" Avon CR6 ZZ @ $753.75 each
Plus $160 per tire freight.....
These tires sound like the performance deal in 15's but price is OTT for me.
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Racer
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I was a Kuhmo tire dealer, I had V700 race tires on back order with NZ distributor for 5 month, ended up calling the tire rack, they had the set UPS over in 3 days, landed cheaper than my dealer cost!!!! how can that be!. Think the prices stem from the days before internet when importers charged what they liked as it was difficult to compair prices in other countries. Joys of living down under and owning american cars
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From: boulogne buenos aires
I have a set of sumitomos htr-200 H rated on mine It even has a white band...and they were around $150 each when I got them..
I prefer cooper or BF but they are NLA here..and they are rated S or T if i´m correct...
I prefer cooper or BF but they are NLA here..and they are rated S or T if i´m correct...