DeTomaso Mailing List: December 98, Message #139

Second confirmation - 275-60-15 HR on 8" campy's - fit no rub.  Tend to 
make my 225-50-15 HR fronts look really short (6.5" sidewall vs. 4.4" 
sidewall).  I wonder how many tires you'd have to gaurantee to buy to 
get Pirelli to make a production run of 285-50-15 ZR ?  Conceivably they 
already have the tooling.  Lets see 100 cars, 200 tires at say $300 ea. 
= $60,000.  I dunno, whre do they start getting interested, 500 cars?

FWIW
Brent 4130

>Reply-To: Wayne Stevens <WStevens@snsgraphics.com>
>From:	Wayne Stevens <WStevens@snsgraphics.com>
>To:	Multiple recipients of list <detomaso@realbig.com>
>Subject: RE: More tire chat
>Date:	Wed, 2 Dec 1998 20:27:10 -0500
>
>To confirm what you say re: P275/6O/R15 . . .I have that size on my 8"
>Campy's
>they are 28" tall;  9" tread on the ground. . . . good looking tire 
mounted
>and
>they have NEVER  rubbed anything body/suspensionwise.
>W
>stock body #27O4
>
>	----------
>	From:  MikeLDrew@aol.com[SMTP:MikeLDrew@aol.com]
>	Sent:  Tuesday, December 01, 1998 11:41 PM
>	To:  Multiple recipients of list
>	Subject:  More tire chat
>
>	All,
>
>	Been doing homework for an article I'm writing on the various tires
>available
>	for stock wheels.
>
>	For years now, I've been seeing the Tire Rack advertising the BFG
>HR4/VR4
>	line.  This line of all-weather performance tires was mostly
>H-rated, but
>	there were a few tires in there that they said were V-rated,
>including the
>	275/60-15 (PERFECT for Mangustas, and a decent choice for 8-inch
>Pantera
>	wheels too.)
>
>	Recently though, I surfed to both the tire rack and BFG webpage, and
>they now
>	market the tire as only H-rated.  I sent an e-mail to the BFG folks
>asking
>	WTFO.
>
>	Got a call today from a friendly customer support tech dude from
>BFG.
>	Unfortunately he left a message on my voicemail.  Name of Dave
>Hannah, number
>	is (877) 788-8899, call him with all your questions.  Anyway, he did
>some
>	research (he sez) and concluded that the tire in question was NEVER
>marketed
>	as being V-rated, that it had always been H-rated.  Claims the Tire
>Rack
>	goofed in their ads.
>
>	Hmm.  I thought there were at least a few of you out there who had
>these
>	tires, and I thought YOU thought they were V-rated.  What sez you?
>
>	Also, everyone seems to forget that there's a little-known
>alternative to the
>	ever-present BFG 305/50 and the aforementioned 275/60.  See,
>Yokohama makes an
>	H-rated all-weather performance tire, called the Y-352.  Sort of an
>oddball
>	tire, they don't list it in any of their ads, but it IS on the
>website.  They
>	sell it in a 295/50, costs $130 apiece.  I've seen them on a (very)
>few
>	Panteras, they seem to do the trick pretty well; only strange thing
>	(unconventional, anyway) is that the scripts on the side of the tire
>(i.e. the
>	Yokohama brand name and tire identification) face outwards towards
>the tread
>	instead of towards the center of the wheel.
>
>	Don't have any first, second or third-hand experience with these
>suckers, so I
>	can't comment on how well they would work versus the two BFG
>candidates, but
>	at least there ARE options...
>
>	Also, while I was writing my question, I took the time to ask WHEN
>(not if)
>	BFG was going to produce some V- or Z-rated performance tires
>appropriate for
>	'halo' cars such as the Pantera, Cobra, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, etc.
>etc.
>	Specifically mentioned sizes like 285/50, 295/50, etc.
>
>	Ol' Dave kind of danced around that one, basically saying, um, er,
>well, ah,
>	see, ah, well, we won't be doing that, um, anytime soon, er, ah...
>
>	Mike
>	
>
>


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