bitsilly
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| posted on 27/8/07 at 06:10 PM |
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Track day tyres - Colway formula 2s!
Just thought I would go out on a limb and tell you lot that at a Castle Combe track day recently I ran Colway retread Formula 2 tyres. They had come
with the car and are cheap as chips compared with some.
Once they had heated up I found they worked a treat and hardly wore down at all.
I do not claim to be a great driver but my MNR was keeping up with some of the more experienced Caterhams which cant be bad and most of that was due
to cornering as they had more power.
Lastly, I rang Colway and they confirmed the tyres are road legal!
Just thought I'd post that here as I found very little on these tyres anywhere on the net.
Good luck
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Jubal
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| posted on 27/8/07 at 06:17 PM |
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I've used both these and the Indysport slicks in the past. Great tyres when hot but they are sometimes a swine to balance because they are
remoulds. These tyres are E marked with a (legal minimum) 17% tread pattern so they are road legal. They even work in the damp as long as you can keep
'em warm.
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another_dom
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| posted on 27/8/07 at 09:48 PM |
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Just to clarify if I may, the Colway tyres are retreads (as per the first post), not remoulds! I have never used them but have heard good things
elsewhere also.
Dom.
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Jubal
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| posted on 27/8/07 at 09:57 PM |
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Aren't they one and the same? I thought a remould was a retread with a sidewall veneer? The phrases seem pretty much interchangeable.
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bitsilly
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| posted on 28/8/07 at 01:43 PM |
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As it was explained to me some time ago, the old tyre goes into a mould and is "supplemented". Retread is therefore a remould anyway!
Where the majority of material of the remould goes depends on what went in before.
He (and so me) could have been wrong mind!
The Conways look pretty badly finished but certainly cut down on the layout for a track day.
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AndyH
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| posted on 11/9/07 at 11:13 AM |
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Give ProTyre a call in Stoke.
Part worn slicks are cheap.
Cost me £25ea for ex BTCC 17" slicks for the the Escort.
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