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Originally Posted by drroc
What didn't you like about them? I drove my car at Thunderhill on those tires, and the performance was quite good. Everything was very predictable.
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The tires are good, especially for high performance street. I haven't taken them to a road course track yet, nor do I plan on doing so, as I have a spare set of Apex wheels and R-compound tires for that application. The ECS seem to hold up very well in high speed sweeps, and rolling start highway pulls. No issues there, except for a slight snap-oversteer on downhill turns.
Where I wish I had gone the PS4S or RE-71R route is when I tried to launch the ECS at Sonoma Raceway last Wednesday -- the 340 treadwear rating was really felt with close to zero traction using launch control at default 3k RPM. I made 3 pass attempts, all of which the rear tires screamed for their lives! I lowered the boost values for all RPM range on the 2nd pass attempt, but even then, the tires made the car do a dangerously wide high-speed zig zag... Nonetheless, I netted a 12.6 second 1/4 mile pass (best is 11.09 on R compound), which was still good enough to beat a late model Challenger R/T
Again, I'm not a big fan of them at this price point, but I expect the tires to get better as the tread wears out.
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Originally Posted by gatorfast
Are you using oem wheels? Those are some big tires.
Also, which summer tires perform better for less money?
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Tires are mounted on OEM Signature SV107 19x9.5 ET19 | 19x11 ET37 wheels.
Never mentioned better for less, but my vote for
just as good for less would be the (2017) Firestone Firehawk Indy 500, which are essentially Bridgestone RE-760 replacements.