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Offline DiabloTX

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« Reply #45 on: February 19, 2008, 01:13:29 AM »
Well, while that looks cool, it ultimately winds up being hard on the drivetrain and wastes good tires.  It'll burn 'em down, trust me.  Just use your imagination!
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« Reply #46 on: February 19, 2008, 09:27:32 AM »
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My GS-D3's are the best tires I've ever had...... never driven them in the snow though.  They stayed together over 200 though and they really handle wonderfully... love 'em.


I loved them on dry or wet pavement.  Great tires there.  Dangerous in the snow.  Do NOT try it.  Seriously.  I almost singlehandedly shut down the A14 between Cambridge and RAF Lakenheath learning this, when I hit a patch of ice while going just under 1 mph (yea ONE mile per hour) and the car started turning sideways and blocked both lanes.

I had the wheel turned full left, and the rear end kept rotating farther left too.  I looked like one of those dirt track racers going around a corner, except it was at 1 mph and in a straight line.  I couldn't stop or I'd never get going again, but the farther I went the more sideways I got.  I finally found a tiny patch of gravel which gave me enough traction to straddle the crown in the road between the lanes, but I came close to being yet another dumb yank in a stupidly overpowered yank musclecar blocking traffic.
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« Reply #47 on: February 19, 2008, 10:00:15 AM »
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I loved them on dry or wet pavement.  Great tires there.  Dangerous in the snow.  Do NOT try it.  Seriously.  I almost singlehandedly shut down the A14 between Cambridge and RAF Lakenheath learning this, when I hit a patch of ice while going just under 1 mph (yea ONE mile per hour) and the car started turning sideways and blocked both lanes.

I had the wheel turned full left, and the rear end kept rotating farther left too.  I looked like one of those dirt track racers going around a corner, except it was at 1 mph and in a straight line.  I couldn't stop or I'd never get going again, but the farther I went the more sideways I got.  I finally found a tiny patch of gravel which gave me enough traction to straddle the crown in the road between the lanes, but I came close to being yet another dumb yank in a stupidly overpowered yank musclecar blocking traffic.


Yikes.... did a little drop of pee come out?  Since I live in AZ, I'm fortunate that there is little chance I'll see snow.  Also, my vette is not a DD.
Hmmm I just realized... I have GS-D3's in my avatar!

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« Reply #48 on: February 28, 2008, 04:27:23 PM »
Installed.  FRC's be damned!


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