Miata Mailing List: May 1994, Message #50
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   From: Andy Poling 
Subject: Re: Tire Pressure
   Date: Tue, 3 May 1994 10:10:02 -0400

On Mon, 2 May 1994 strick@merle.acns.nwu.edu wrote:
> How about a quick survey of winning tire pressures on Yoko 205/55-14s.

I am running 205/55-14 RS's as opposed to RS-II's but the tire expert
claims that, in that size, they use the same carcass with a different
tread compound. 

I use 32F/30R on the road and in the wet, 34/32 in the dry.  After
thrashing the tires (though the Vette and the Viper were much harder on
their tires :-) thoroughly at a 2-day autox school this past weekend (Hi 
Ken), I am fairly confident in these pressures. 

32/30 may be sufficient in the dry - when using 34/32, the only time I
touched the lip seperating the sidewalls from the tread was in a gawdawful
lurid spin after taking a cross-hill whoopdeedoo in a sweeper completely
wrong at speed (didn't make that mistake twice). 

-Andy

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