gwoods wrote:I ran Kumho v710's 275/40/17 on my g35 sedan at the track on mustang bullet rims six years ago they were fantastic
A bet the ride is fun enough and not punishing with the rubber that is on it
I suppose its a matter of perspective. When I was 12, I didn't know any better and I thought Kirk Hammett was a guitar God. As I grew older, and listened to real guitarists (Satriani, Petrucci, etc), I realized that I was severely selling myself short with Kirk, and he's sub-average at best.
When you take lots of time to meticulously engineer a car and then stick all seasons on it, it's like cleaning your bathroom with a toothbrush and bleach, then putting a whole roll of wadded up paper towels in the toilet and honking the flusher. You're doing counter-productive work and you get severely diminishing returns by not taking care of the most important piece of equipment on the car, the tires. Heck, tires alone are the reason why I'm selling my Corvette and quitting A-Stock, because the SCCA is making A-Stock run on street tires instead of R-Compounds, which to me, is a waste of time.
I did a lot of extensive tire testing this season, the delta between A6's and BFG Rivals was about 3 seconds around a 40'ish second course. 3 seconds is massive, I could put another 200 hp in my car and NOT find 3 seconds if I stayed on those tires. I will have to dig up the report I wrote up and make a thread detailing it. Now, BFG Rivals are a whole heck of a lot better than the all season shoes this 240Z is wearing, and on the Rivals my car suffered greatly with longitudinal grip (ie: braking/accelerating). Peak longitudinal grip was NOT good and the sustained wasn't much better.
Long story short, as stated before, tires are the most important modification you can make. You can have Usain Bolt potential, but if you're rocking Birkenstocks, then you'll just flop around and trip.