{"id":20332,"date":"2009-09-11T11:03:09","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T18:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=20332"},"modified":"2009-09-11T11:03:09","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T18:03:09","slug":"automobile-autocross-top-street-tires-for-auto-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=20332","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Autocross &#8211; Top Street Tires for Auto-X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The latest issue of Sports Car Magazine (SCCA&#8217;s magazine) had an article where they tested all the top street tires for autocross. Thought I&#8217;d share the article highlights for those looking at STX tires (or maybe just a more durable, cheaper substitute for R-comps).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">All tires were tested on a STX spec 2005 Mazda RX-8 running 265\/35\/18 tires on 18X9 wheels. Curbweight of the RX-8 was 2800 lbs. (driver not included).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Another important note was that all tires were shaved to 3\/32&#8243; tread depth to mimic a top national driver&#8217;s setup.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Track conditions were all sunny and dry. Ambient temperature at 75 with a track temp of 105.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Breakdown of the Tires:\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.8thcivic.com\/forums\/autocross-sanctioned-drag-racing\/176034-top-street-tires-auto-x-per-sports-car-magazine.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest issue of Sports Car Magazine (SCCA&#8217;s magazine) had an article where they tested all the top street tires for autocross. Thought I&#8217;d share the article highlights for those looking at STX tires (or maybe just a more durable, cheaper substitute for R-comps). All tires were tested on a STX spec 2005 Mazda RX-8 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autocross","category-automobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20333,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20332\/revisions\/20333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}