Good choice Mikey! I like them so much I have 2 sets! One wet/silver set on Michelin PS5 and I've gone with MRF-ZTR for the grey/dry set.Mikey_Boy wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 11:42 am Morning everyone
My 224M wheels and tyres are up on the board here for sale: viewtopic.php?t=134122
I’ve also had another set of boxes arrived with these for track use…
Some Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tyres on order ready for the Spring….!
I like pretty much all of their stuff, but the arc-8 is perhaps the perfect variant of the CSL style, and we all know about CSLs and their love for these cars! The adavntage they have of being available in an 18" is pretty major, I wouldn't really consider running a 19" which a real CSL is.
How are you finding the MRF's out of interest? Did you have AR1's before that IIRC? Seems pretty close between the two but weighing up between the two for this years track stuff.......Cup 2's are good but I feel the sidewalls are a bit soft, too much wear on the front shoulders for me (on track at least), maybe they prefer -3 deg of camber but not willing to go that far personally.TomK wrote: ↑Mon Feb 28, 2022 5:05 pmGood choice Mikey! I like them so much I have 2 sets! One wet/silver set on PS5 (waiting on the rears) and I've gone with MRF-ZTR for the grey/dry set.Mikey_Boy wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 11:42 am Morning everyone
My 224M wheels and tyres are up on the board here for sale: viewtopic.php?t=134122
I’ve also had another set of boxes arrived with these for track use…
Some Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tyres on order ready for the Spring….!
Looking forward to getting back out there
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Not sure yet Andy, I'm at donington next friday so will see then weather permitting. I had AR1s last year which I thought were great other than the wear rate, the MRF are from what I have read a little more durable with similar performance. They are a little more expensive however.AndyBeech wrote: ↑Tue Mar 01, 2022 12:56 am How are you finding the MRF's out of interest? Did you have AR1's before that IIRC? Seems pretty close between the two but weighing up between the two for this years track stuff.......Cup 2's are good but I feel the sidewalls are a bit soft, too much wear on the front shoulders for me (on track at least), maybe they prefer -3 deg of camber but not willing to go that far personally.
Like you say trailering and slicks would be ideal, can't believe how cheap a set are compared to semi's, if only it was a viable option
That'll help, my advice would be to keep a good eye on pressures on track, Michelin does have a guide for weight of car / pressures to run them. I think around mid 30's when hot IIRC, will be higher than you might think but I found they actually worked quite well around mid 30's. Rear tyres had good fairly even wear, fronts lasted well and tread wise are fine but the outer shoulders seemed to take a pounding and blistered quite quick which is a shame as the meat of the tyres still have fairly good tread. I did run the pressures quite low early on in their life by accidentMikey_Boy wrote: ↑Tue Mar 01, 2022 6:45 pm Phew - good to see positive experiences for the ARC-8s….
Michelin Sport Cup 2 tyres are fitted - I’ll get some pics up when I get round to putting them on the car. To AndyBeech’s point above - I’m running -2.7 degrees camber on mine so hopefully that’ll be enough for them to work well on track…?
More to come….!
so that probably didn't help in my case! A lot of conflicting info out there on t'interweb, but managed to find a guide from Michelin as you described and they recommend between 34 - 39 psi hot. When I ran Porsches on track they liked pretty high pressures too.
