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Title: Legal tires in GTU
Post by alangbaker on Aug 10^th, 2015 at 9:17am

Just trying to find out what a set of Hoosier tires for a GTU Civic CRX would cost, and that would start with knowing what kind of tire it is.

:)

Title: Re: Legal tires in GTU
Post by Keith Robinson on Aug 11^th, 2015 at 6:26pm

Round, rubber??

Title: Re: Legal tires in GTU
Post by ThirdGenRobbie on Aug 11^th, 2015 at 10:26pm

I can almost guarantee that a set of vee tires would be cheaper than GTU tires ;)

Title: Re: Legal tires in GTU
Post by Keith Robinson on Aug 12^th, 2015 at 10:48am

Look a bit funny on a CRX ;D!

Title: Re: Legal tires in GTU
Post by unxetas on Aug 12^th, 2015 at 12:49pm

Way less rolling resistance though!

(Robbie, have you checked the price of vee tires lately? :o :'( )

Title: Re: Legal tires in GTU
Post by unxetas on Aug 12^th, 2015 at 1:24pm

I thought this would be a simple answer Alan, but.. Phew I'm glad I'm not running tin tops :D

As far as I can gather, GTU is a CACC thing, a subclass of GTS, meant to allow cars that don't quite fit into SCCA's GT classes? If that's right, I'm guessing you'd want to run slicks in GTU - no rules on tires that I can find.. In SCCA GT2, GT3 and GTL there are some wheel size limitations but you can run almost anything with a weight penalty. A popular size for old civics and crx's is 20.0x8.0x13 - Hoosiers in that size cost about $220USD each.

So Robbie was right, vee tires are cheaper! Not by much, though :(

Title: Re: Legal tires in GTU
Post by bunracer on Aug 13^th, 2015 at 8:33am

Is the GTU CRX built specifically for GTU or is that it's option "B" class ?

Title: Re: Legal tires in GTU
Post by Doodson on Aug 13^th, 2015 at 8:22pm

Hoosier slicks or Hoosier Dot race tire