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Jess from Coker contacted me via the HAMB, and sent me another pair to try. There has to be a belt issue or something with the first pair, because...
My experience with Coker customer service about this has been top notch. I'm waiting for another pair, and I'm good with that, still running my...
Yours were made a week before mine then, thanks Pete!
For the sake of being scientific today, I mounted up my old front tires, car drove like it has for 8,000 miles, perfect. I put one new tire on the...
Wow, nothing changed. Not even a little. Time to put the old tires back on and see what happens.....
Big Bear Tire 800-378-BEAR bigbeartire.com They mostly use their machine for shaving down street tires for spec class racing that has to use...
Good point, but I don't think you can static balance (weights on inside of rim only) and road force balance. Could be interesting to explore if I...
Picked them up at lunch, cost me $30. They did shave them a tad, and of course rebalanced. They did take less weight than before as well. Chucked...
I know that, my curiosity is whether these bias style radials would prefer more toe than a modern style radial, and or could a "death wobble"...
To be fair to Coker, I'm ASSUMING an out of round problem. I've seen worse tires on the balancer that didn't have a problem on the car. These are...
I asked Coker, they don't make recommendations on alignment. My car with radials has always been set at 1/8" toe in. I don't know if more toe...
I did get them from Summit, and they balanced with little weight, but I've got a death wobble at 60 that wasn't there before. There's a local shop...
$900 for just the tires Dennis, and my 5.60-15 fronts are not round. I have a wicked shake at 60, and I've balanced them every which way, no...
Great show as always!
Cool. I've tried to get my father in law to bring his 292 powered 57 Chevy truck, but I think he's afraid of it........
I don't mind taking that chance.......:cool: #24 [IMG]
So I'm waiting my turn by the little blue house, and out walks Bob K. I half expected it to be some portal to Alaska, or maybe Antigo, but being I...
I hail from the land of frustrating train traffic, one way streets, Jimmy's Grotto, and Les Paul....
Thanks Jim, it was nice meeting you too! I absolutely LOVE your Corvette! You're in the position I was last year, new car "bugs". This year...
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Thanks for another great year! My Tudor ran it's best time ever, and it didn't have to leave on a trailer this year. I can't wait for Meltdown...
Now there's a coincidence.....:cool:
I just sent this thread to a friend that needs to build his like this.....Looks excellent. Have you considered doing a bubbletop?????
265/ 75 15 on 8" rims rear, 165/ 80 15 on 4" rims front...... [IMG] [IMG]
A few "new" pictures after a long winter............ [IMG] [IMG]
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