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Re: bmw-digest V2 #147

From: [email protected] (Andrew Kalman)
>Subject: PZero experience
>
>Gary H <[email protected]> was wondering about Pirelli tires ...
>
>I've always liked Pirellis because they (at least to me) give some tactile
>and audible warning before they lose traction, unlike some other tires I've
>had. 
>
>Of course, 12-15,000 miles is pretty crappy compared to the 40,000 miles
>I've heard M3 owners getting out of D40 M2s at 40psi.
>
>Hope this helps,

Andrew,

Thanks for your P-Zero experience.  I think I'm going to do away with tires
that only get 15k miles on 'em.  Do you or anyone else know what the tread
life is on the Yokohamas AVS Intermediates?  If I can get 40K out of the
D40 M2, I wouldn't mind paying the price especially since I've heard some
rave reviews about the M2s. 

Gary

From: Richard Biscevic/MSI
>Date: 14 Dec 94  9:09:27 PS
>Subject: 60 - 80 in a '95 M3
>
>A little while ago someone posted a request about 60 -80 times of cars
>in various gears.  Well, the '95 M3 did the following (without help from
>the clutch)
>
>60- 80 mph in...
>3rd gear:  3.9 sec.
>4th gear:  5.4
>5th gear:  7.6

That was me on my 89 M3.  I started at 60 then gas'ed it.  Some guy on the
toyota list got:

3rd: 3.9 sec
4th: 5.2 sec
5th: 6.2 sec

in this turbo Toyoto Corina with mods with linear extrapolation.  In other
words, he started from rest to over 100MPH and took the difference between
the times at 60 and 80MPH.  How did you get the 60-80 times?

Gary