El Cheapo rallyX tires?

So..., do I spring for these cheap Towel City Retreads ice racing tires and hope they'll work in the Florida sand, or do I buy some real rally tires at more than double the price?

http://www.towelcityracingtires.com/15__Ice_Racing_Tires.html

I thought a lot of people use winter tires on their rallyx cars.

$72 for retreads? Maybe the technology has changed over the years, but here where it snows people tend to stay away from them.

Why not CL search some pre-loved very knobby snow tires? $20 or each, then GRM hand off them to Florida.

Dan

93EXCivic wrote: I thought a lot of people use winter tires on their rallyx cars.

I would LOVE to score some used winter tires, but you'd have better luck finding Jimmy Hoffa here in Florida.

It's just tough trying to justify spending $800-$1000 for tires to go on a $500 car.

Not exactly what I was looking for, these with the little slits on the knobs are more for ice, may clog up in mud. Someone's gotta be headed south soon.

http://albany.craigslist.org/pts/2759416593.html

I could of sworn there were new winter tires on tire rack for cheaper the $72 a pop.

914Driver wrote: $72 for retreads? Maybe the technology has changed over the years, but here where it snows people tend to stay away from them. Dan

They're special rubber compounds on normal street tire casings. Basically cheater race rubber. The ice tires are probably so soft that they wouldn't stand up to the sand. I destroyed a set of Blizzaks in a day on my rally crosser.

Those don't look like very good ice racing tires. No siping.

They're special rubber compounds on normal street tire casings. Basically cheater race rubber. The ice tires are probably so soft that they wouldn't stand up to the sand. I destroyed a set of Blizzaks in a day on my rally crosser.

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One of the guys from rallyflorida.org has suggested these--- Tire rack wants $82 for my size

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp?tireMake=Firestone&tireModel=Winterforce

The Winterforce was the hot rallyx tire back in CO. One of the guys said he was faster on those than his rally tires (he'd run them back to back).

I have a set of good Falken rally tires I would sell. Narrow 15 inchers mounted on 5X114.3 steels.

250 plus shipping if interested!

here's a good resource talking about rallycross tires (particularly snow tires used for it)

http://www.dirtyimpreza.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4732

Snows work well, but they often de-bead. You need to run big pressures in them to keep the sidewalls stiff.

Rally tires rarely do that but they are heavy and can slow you down.

I run tubes. Works fine.

NGTD wrote: Rally tires rarely do that but they are heavy and can slow you down.

Boris the Blade said: Heavy is good. Heavy is reliable.

I just got a set of these from tires-easy.com

http://www.tiresandco.ca/car-tires/SUNNY/SN,3830,SNOWMASTER/

They are ok so far, no snow yet, but they were really cheap!

This past season I ran BFG touring T/As, and I guess they are ok, because I won the SCCA Fl region stock rear points with them. The car turns pretty good, but I'm hoping for more forward bite out of the corners.

Truck tires?

Yokohama Geolanders $83.

I agree

I run a set of Yoko Rally tires and in 2010, I finished 2nd at the season-ending event and two guys in from of me went out with DNF's due to snows blowing out on course and they couldn't limp the cars through.

Maroon92 wrote:

NGTD wrote: Rally tires rarely do that but they are heavy and can slow you down.

Boris the Blade said: Heavy is good. Heavy is reliable.

We experimented with the Towel City tires in our unstudded ice racing class. They worked very well, comparable to the Blizzak.
They durometer the same, about 45. Which is pretty soft for high temps and sand. The Winterforce would be better.

iceracer wrote: We experimented with the Towel City tires in our unstudded ice racing class. They worked very well, comparable to the Blizzak. They durometer the same, about 45. Which is pretty soft for high temps and sand. The Winterforce would be better.

Thanks for the input, iceracer.

I called the guys at Towel City, and they seemed clueless to what rallycross even was. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that the rallyx market would be larger than the ice racing market, so you'd think they'd offer them in a hard compound?

Aeromoto wrote: I called the guys at Towel City, and they seemed clueless to what rallycross even was. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that the rallyx market would be larger than the ice racing market

I doubt it.

I know this thread is old as dirt but I made a review of the TCR's and was impressed. I did get them out in several muddy fields and trails. As long as I had clearance. I had all the traction I could want. I just hate to see people pass up on something without factual information.

http://www.therangerstation.com/forums/showthread.php?t=137640