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i've been using the kuhmo's as road tyres on my car, a little more nvh than a regular road tyre but good grip and seem to be wearing well,

i did a deca day on them and the car wasn't as pointy at slow speeds as it has been on worn semi's, but for the price they are great.

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I'm up for a KU36 "control tyre" lap attack! Sounds very cost effective. Let's set up a pinned thread to record our lap times at various circuits across the country.

Maybe Option 1 could offer us discount with group buys?

When my Kuhmo V70's wear out, I'll look at getting the KU36. Just need my track buddies to do the same so we are all equal.

Badhairdave: I would think it would turn out better than a Nankang tyre challenge! That was with dumhed and TMB yeah? lol nankangs!

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Faster, yes. Better, no chance.

Just the unpredictability of chucking the car into a corner not knowing whether it was going to stick made it very interesting.

The only problem was most people were too scared to run such a crap tyre for some strange reason...

ryan i'm up for a ku36 control tyre for 2010.

marty, josh and yourself are running ku36. my 595rs need a refresh for 2010, so i'll grab some ku36 (would have liked to test the rsr tho...).

you just have to turn up to the wrx days.

tho if the times go up, im going back to 595. lol

I found they took a decent drive to become a decent tyre...

www.option1garage.com.au

isn't that the 235/45/17 price?

ryan i'm up for a ku36 control tyre for 2010.

marty, josh and yourself are running ku36. my 595rs need a refresh for 2010, so i'll grab some ku36 (would have liked to test the rsr tho...).

you just have to turn up to the wrx days.

tho if the times go up, im going back to 595. lol

Its on!

Roman mentioned getting some for his new rims too.

I'm in for that!

In fact, my little track group of friends (6 or so of us) are working toward having the KU36 as our group "control" tyre :D

I like the sound of this. count me in for next year. Should have a road going clone of my current track car, perfect class.

Gatton entries were Emailed out this week, Perhaps a private KU36 Street Sprint Challenge is in oder, Gatton, Oakey, Pitsworth & Wheels on Widebay?

I run skid pan days on a wet concrete 'track' in Gympie.

In the afternoon, we have a time trail against the stop watch..

The track starts on the wet concrete then migrates onto dry black stuff which has a slalm built in. 3 of the top 5 cars are on them.

We ask a lot of the tyres, and the KU36's perform stinking well.

My car runs them (235/45/17) all round, and power sliding them has become a whole lot more harder, even on wet concrete. :P

Sure, they are not a dedicated slick, but bang for buck, they are stinking hard to beat!

I got mine from option1.

My skid guys (me included) run 38~40ish psi in the fronts and 42~46 in the back (for powersliding).

Great grip and reasonable tyre life.

Does that help??

do they make hektic smokes wen u rip r skidddzz bro?

....

...anyways...whos up for a KU36 wakefield challenge......just let me get my car driving again lol

who runs them on a heavy car? ie 33 gtst / GTR and what are they like in the heat of summer after a few really hard laps?

does a 1640kg (with me in it) JZA80 TT Supra count? Had 275/35*18 rears. In Brisbane heat, they were best in the first 3 laps, but do 5 laps no worries. It was only the rears that started going away a bit after 3 or 4 real hard laps, the fronts remained very consistent. I'm not known for being smooth on the throttle though so I tend to give the rears a hard time.

Ran them for the first time at Oran Park on sunday and was pretty impressed.

For what they are and the price they held up very well. Kept them at 37 rear, 39 front cold.

It was pretty hot out there with amb temps at around 30 degrees and no dramas at all.

The only thing was my brakes were really going off after 2 hard laps (stock 32 GTR rotors) so never really got the chance to push them lap after lap without a cool down lap.

They did "ball" up a bit but nothing like my road tyres did last time at OP.

does a 1640kg (with me in it) JZA80 TT Supra count? Had 275/35*18 rears. In Brisbane heat, they were best in the first 3 laps, but do 5 laps no worries. It was only the rears that started going away a bit after 3 or 4 real hard laps, the fronts remained very consistent. I'm not known for being smooth on the throttle though so I tend to give the rears a hard time.

You have a very smooth throttle application Hary..... in compariosion to a monster truck.

Ran them for the first time at Oran Park on sunday and was pretty impressed.

For what they are and the price they held up very well. Kept them at 37 rear, 39 front cold.

It was pretty hot out there with amb temps at around 30 degrees and no dramas at all.

The only thing was my brakes were really going off after 2 hard laps (stock 32 GTR rotors) so never really got the chance to push them lap after lap without a cool down lap.

They did "ball" up a bit but nothing like my road tyres did last time at OP.

Plus Oran Park is notorious for being hard on tyres so from what you say, that's pretty good!

Ku36 control tyre for the win!!! :rofl:

does a 1640kg (with me in it) JZA80 TT Supra count? Had 275/35*18 rears. In Brisbane heat, they were best in the first 3 laps, but do 5 laps no worries. It was only the rears that started going away a bit after 3 or 4 real hard laps, the fronts remained very consistent. I'm not known for being smooth on the throttle though so I tend to give the rears a hard time.

thats exactly what i wanted to hear :(

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