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Does anyone have these Michelin's on their Z06? Just got a set yesterday to replace the Goodyear's that had 22,00 miles on them.
Thanks,
Donna
Thanks,
Donna
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Does anyone have these Michelin's on their Z06? Just got a set yesterday to replace the Goodyear's that had 22,00 miles on them.
Thanks,
Donna
Does anyone have these Michelin's on their Z06? Just got a set yesterday to replace the Goodyear's that had 22,00 miles on them.
Thanks,
Donna
(snip)Hi Donna,
I put OEM sized PS2's on my Z06 and they surely handle better than the Good Year's
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How did you determine that your Z with the Pilot Sport 2s handles better than it did with the Goodyears?
(snip)Well Hib, just from regular driving I noticed that the tires seem to grab the roadway a little harder during spirited turns and braking. One turn on an auto-x course that I had run before turned in a better time also with less tire "slippage".
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Ok. I misunderstood your first post. I thought maybe you had some test data to support what you were saying about F1 SC vs SP2 Actually, even if you did have data, comparing a new set of Pilot Sport 2s to a 22,000-mile, 4-year old set of tires you replaced (be they Goodyears or any other brand) is nonesense and provides no credible data, subjective or objective.
Now, if you did a legitimate test and compared new PS2s to new F1 Supercars, given the same car, with the same alignment, the same pressures and the same test course, the Supercar would be better in dry traction and steering response. On a road course the advantage would be significant if the two tires were at full tread depth. If the PS2s were shaved a bit, the GY's advantage might not be as large.
On a wet track the PS2 would be a better choice, because it's an "all-round ultra-performance" tire whereas the F1 Supercar is decidedly a dry traction tire.
On the street, as the PS2 is a "full tread-depth" tire and the Supercars for Z06es are a reduced tread depth tire, the PS2s might last longer, but...that would depend on how you drive.
On my 04 Z06, I prefer the car's cutting-edge handing in the dry so it will be a cold day in hell before I take the F1 Supecars off. Now, when one of the major tire companies comes up with a tire which can truely exceed the performance of the Supercar in the dry yet also offer the treadlife they do, then I'll consider a switch.
Interestingly, the Supercars in the C5Z sizes are a pretty unique product which bridges the gap between radial race tires (ie: tires with soft racing compounds and very minimal tread grooves) which have low tread life, and "all-round" ultra performance tires, such as the Michelin Pilot Sport 2 and the Goodyear F1 GS-D3, which have deeper tread grooves and better wet traction.
Lastly, the F1 Supecar has been available since 2001, which is a pretty long lifecycle for a product like that. It will be interesting to see, now that Goodyear introduced an all-season, ultra-performance tire (the new F1 All-Season available in C5 base sizes this fall), whether the GY people replace the F1 Supecar with a new product which maintains the market position of the Supercar's dry-traction biasing but adds some of the new features GY has been introducing into premium replacement tires, such as Kevlar tread belts and carbon-fiber inserts in the sidewalls.
If Goodyear ever introduces an "F1 Supercar II" which is non-EMT and has the low tread-depth of the previous design along with Kevlar in the tread and CF in the sidewalls, I'll be waiting at the Goodyear store with my Z06 and my checkbook.