Showing posts with label wheels and tires. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wheels and tires. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Friction improvements time.

Hi,
I've recently improved a couple of things in my S2000.
I've installed a set of EBC Red Stuff Brake Pads in the front and a set of EBC green Stuff at the back and to make the huge braking performance increase justifiable, I've decided to re-paint my 5Zigen Proracer GN+ rims with a BMW 400 reference Gun-Metal Paint and fit a set of grips-as-nothing-else-around Toyo R888 Tires.
Here are some pictures:




















Results:
I now have a new hobby called - "Overtaking on the OutSide".... it's very cool. While everyone else is on their brakes trying to stay on the inside lane of a hard bend, I just flyby on the outside with massive grip and control flooring it like a bat out of hell.
Since I'm now so fast in the bends, I normally find a lot of slower moving vehicles when exiting bends but since the brake bite a grip is so huge I immediately slow down to speed without a fuss.

It's a brilliant Setup and I RECOMMEND it over just about anything I've tested so far. I mean I've been on High performance tires before, but race tires are just a different level of grip. The same goes to EBC.. I've been on Red-Stuff before, but RedStuff on 300mm discs are very different from what I've tested before.

Monday, July 12, 2010

My S2000

I have 2 sets of wheels:

  • the original ones (painted in BMW dark gray) running on FALKEN's FK452 
  • the 5Zigen GN+ Proracer running on TOYO R888's (still on the falkens when I took the picture)



I brought the 5Zigen's from Envyperformance  - http://www.envyperformance.com/ 
Both the ToyoR888's and the Falkens FK452 where brought at CAMSKILL. The 2 set's were delivered to my door in 5 days... and cost (shipment included) about 60% of the price 1 set of R888's would cost here in portugal... I DO RECOMEND THEM VERY MUCH - http://www.camskill.co.uk/