Review so far on the new tires.
Really starting to like the looks of the new tires. I find these slightly more round on the sidewall than the Kumho's which had sort of a square profile if that makes sense.
The trip out to Ponoka, I didn't find a huge difference in road noise. I was hoping it would make a huge difference but not really. On sort of broken highway, the sound was the same but on newer pavement, I believe they are quieter. I'm not totally sure as I didn't do a back to back comparison, but the new tires seemed to hit a little harder on the expansion joints. As for grip, well, I just drove on the highway so I couldn't comment to anyone on the meet if they were better than the old tires as really, I could have driven on 30 year old donut spares and it would have had the same results.
Both below tests for the tires were done in a controlled setting.
I did a couple tests on Saturday and am pretty please with the results.
The tires hold much better when launching from a stop and don't break like the Kumho's would (but they were 10 years old and baldish but could have used a burnout or two to really finish them off I guess, eh Fitzy
).
Checking on acceleration up to 90, they only squirmed a little bit and left a nice chirp between 1st and second. When doing the same thing with the old tires, the rear end of the Corvette would really move around so it's nice having a much more stable tire.
