Miata Mailing List: July 1998, Message #37

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The contact patch of the rotor is a bit small!

The 15" tires that are standard with the leather package were swapped
with suitable track tires (225 / 50 14" I think).


/Lou

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>From: 	Alessandro Di Sciascio[SMTP:adisciascio@dialisdn.com]
>Sent: 	Wednesday, July 01, 1998 9:07 AM
>To: 	Ficarra, Lou
>Cc: 	Multiple recipients of list
>Subject: 	Re: '99 vs. SCCA R in MCA Mag
>
>Ficarra, Lou wrote:
>> 
>> Just received a free copy of the latest Miata Mag.  I did not read the
>> accompanying literature,  so I do not know how it reached my door.  I'm
>> just lazy but eventually I will join MCA.  Anyway they had a good write
>> up of a '99 leather package vs. a '95 SCCA class B prepped R package.  A
>> few SCCA champs drove each car though the course.  The totally stock
>> (sans tires) '99 was within a second of the lap times generated by the B
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> class '95.  Some suggested that would change with a simple racing
>> alignment or change in sway bar.
>
>Yeah, and immagine how much better that '99 would have performed if it
>HAD tires <G>.
>
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