Vintage race tires

[mototron]

Hello
I am going to be vintage racing a series II alpine and need to get
racing tires for my 13 X 5.5 alloy rims
I have sumitomo 185/60/13 s now but are not legal for racing
any Suggestions
Thanks
Rocco

 

[alpine_64]

All of these links will take you to good choices, some can ever be OK on the road, i run the Falken Azenis on my road car, a friend is running the bridgestone RE55S

http://www.tracksidetyres.com.au/tyres_bridgestone.html
http://www.tracksidetyres.com.au/tyres_falken.html
http://www.tracksidetyres.com.au/tyres_toyo.html
http://www.tracksidetyres.com.au/tyres_hoosier.html

 

[sunbeam74]

Rocco,

It really depends on which organization you are running with. Usually they are very specfic.

Given the choice of vintage race tires found in the U.S. (from Sasco or Bob Woodman) I would opt for:

1) Hosiers Vintage/Historic (I know the SVRA will allow these)
2) Goodyear Bluestreaks (usually accepted by most except VSCCA....nicer than the Dunlop in the rain but about the same in the dry)
3) Dunlop L series (hard compound... accepted by just about everybody including VSCCA)

Clearly the Hoosiers are a better tire for performance. The Goodyear and Dunlop fullfil requirements to comply with the specific organization.

 

[Alpineracer8]

Vintage racing tires

Hey, Rocco:

I race a '60 Alpine Series I with CVAR (Corinthian Vintage Auto Racing) and, due to the age of the car, I'm in a pretty restricted class as far as modifications go. I run the Hoosier Street TD race tire and have found them to be entirely adequate for the type of racing we do. They are a very forgiving tire but are sticky enough to let you know you're on a race tire. As long as they are legal with my group with CVAR, I'll run them.

Best of luck with your car,

 

[mototron]

Hi all
I went and ran at Watkins Glen with my street tires
which worked OK but my alpine was so slow compared to
all the modified cars in my group the best tires in the World
would not have helped

This was my First race it was a lot of fun but I could use some more Experience & power coming out of the turns

The question is should I build 1592 thats in my car or use a 1725 ?
I am leaning toward the 1725 because of the 5 main bearings

The ole 1592 did not like running all day at 6000 rpms
I have massive amounts of blow by now

Thanks
Rocco

 

[Jim E]

What would be nice is to have some real flow numbers off a head and run some combinations on the Desk top Dyno. Then see what happens when we play with rod length and cams and such.