Matt, Good idea on where to look for advice. I went with the BFGoodrich g-Force Sport COMP-2 after reading some favorable reviews from quite a few Miata forum members. If Larry ever gets his 16v running I may head down to Sebring for a track day or two. I even offered to let Larry drive my car at Sebring for the track days if he wanted but he shot down the idea.
Larry, I just wanted to put it on record that you have no excuse not to head down to Sebring some day... to drive, not watch this time :) -----Original Message----- > From: a2-16v-list [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Matthew Yip > Sent: Friday, July 18, 2014 12:35 PM > To: Volkswagen a2 16v discussion list > Subject: Re: [a2-16v-list] distributor cap and tires > > It's funny how these wear items, well, wear - I put probably 12K on my > last 16v and was complaining that it ran poorly with bad fuel economy. > Why? Because the idiot owner (looks in mirror) hadn't performed a tune-up > in over a year. I'd check the distributor shaft to make sure it isn't > wobbling a bit with old age - I wobble with old age and it's not pretty. > > Dunflop makes a multitude of Direzza tyres - I'm honesty uncertain which > ones are "the best" but you may want to haunt some of the autocross forums > for their input as well. I wouldn't be too concerned about rain > performance - these tyres are treaded to 9/32" so they're fairly deeply > grooved. Add to that the fact that they have grooves (unlike most > R-compound tyres) and you should be fine. Just don't drive them in > temperatures under 45 degrees F or you'll find they're like little carbon > bricks. > > > On Thursday, July 17, 2014 11:03 PM, Chad Rebuck <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Not much has been going on with the 16v lately. The car was misfiring in > the past week after the rain at times so I took a look at the distributor > cap and found it was really worn down. One of the contacts had a 1/16" > inch slit in the middle of it from the arcing. Looks the same as if > someone took a dremmel tool with cutoff wheel to it. There was quite a bit > of carbon all over the place so I installed a used cap that I cleaned up > that was on hand in the spare parts box. The used cap was in decent > shape.... so far, so good. > > 2.5 years and 14k miles later my Dunlop Direzza Sport Z1 tires are at the > limit. They did see a number of fairly long track days and an auto-x or > two. The front set now looks like slicks, while the rear have a little more > tread remaining. I don't drive the car much in the rain anyhow. I may opt > to get some tires that are so high performance oriented this time around > since my friends aren't as interested in track days anymore. I don't get > the itch to go much anymore either. Last time around the tires ran $460 for > the set shipped from Tire Rack. I think the tires performed fine and with > my driving I shouldn't expect much more mileage. > > I was thinking about trying the Dunlop dz102. Here are all the tires in > 195/50-15 > > > http://www.tirerack.com/tires/TireSearchResults.jsp?width=195%2F&ratio=50&diameter=15&performance=ALL > > Any feedback from you all is welcome. > > Thanks > _______________________________________________ > a2-16v-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.a2-16v.com/mailman/listinfo/a2-16v-list > For list archives, see listinfo link above. > _______________________________________________ > a2-16v-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.a2-16v.com/mailman/listinfo/a2-16v-list > For list archives, see listinfo link above. > _______________________________________________ > a2-16v-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.a2-16v.com/mailman/listinfo/a2-16v-list > For list archives, see listinfo link above. > _______________________________________________ a2-16v-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.a2-16v.com/mailman/listinfo/a2-16v-list For list archives, see listinfo link above.
