Evo holds (or held) the G's record?

[SterlingEvo]

Ok... here's the article that the ad references from BFG's site:

EVO VIII sets sport compact cornering mark on g-Force™ T/A®KD tires
September 30, 2004

Vishnu Tuning in Pleasanton, California runs a wickedly fast Mitsubishi EVO VIII in performance contests. They recently won the small sedan class in the 2004 Tire Rack® Cannonball One Lap of America event, riding on BFGoodrich® g-Force™ T/A®KD tires. They also won the skidpad competition for that class, effectively claiming top sport compact honors. More remarkably, the Vishnu EVO VIII exceeded 1g in doing so, the only true four-door passenger car to break that magic barrier. (The only cars to beat the Vishnu car on the skidpad were Corvettes and Porsches.)

Shiv Pathak, proprietor of Vishnu Tuning, chose BFGoodrich® tires for the event because his driver, Paul Gerrard, recommended them. Why did Gerrard recommend them? Because he won the 2003 Tire Rack One Lap of America skidpad event outright in a Ruf 911 on BFGoodrich g-Force T/AKD tires.

"Paul told me the BFGoodrich tires were extremely durable, besides providing superb traction,'' Pathak says. "He also praised the stiffness of the BFGoodrich sidewall. That's a quality we very much needed for this event.'' In addition to its superb traction, Pathak said, the BFGoodrich tire wears evenly, without chunking and breaking up.

Pathak says after the multi-day ordeal of the Tire Rack One Lap of America, he pulled the tires from the EVO VIII and put them on his own street car. "They drive just fine,'' Pathak says. "The tread depth is reduced, but the block design is intact. They don't look worn.''

BFGoodrich g-Force tires also are the world's fastest street radials. They hold the current world record for street radials in drag racing, set by Dwayne "Big Daddy" Gutridge on a set of g-Force T/A® Drag Radials -- 8.05 seconds at 181 MPH on 11/23/03. BFGoodrich g-Force tires also set the highest cornering mark The Tire Rack has ever recorded.*

Vishnu Tuning is at 3687 Old Santa Rita Road #21, Pleasanton, CA 94588. Phone (925) 924-9800 or visit them online at www.vishnutuning.com. Email address: sales@vishnutuning.com.

*BFGoodrich® g-Force™ T/A®KD tires have posted the best cornering mark (1.08g) that The Tire Rack has ever recorded, as of 06/10/04.

[SterlingEvo]

and here's the pic from BFG's website:

[Kee1pride]

Originally Posted by Redcloud

That's the best part! 340 AA A! $97 each in the 17"

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/Spec.j...irePageLocQty=

Holy crap! thats double the A046's 170 or so wear rating!

[SterlingEvo]

here's the key: "the only true four-door passenger car to break that magic barrier. (The only cars to beat the Vishnu car on the skidpad were Corvettes and Porsches.)"

[KOEvo]

Originally Posted by Kee1pride

I've never EVER in my life seen an evo go so low before. this is typically the ball park i've read every car magazine test them at.

http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:...s&ct=clnk&cd=1

That's modded, not stock. BUT AGAIN, this wasn't my test, and R&T's findings could be extrememly skewed, and biased for all we know (which would be odd beause they were showing how the Evo matches up to the Cayman in the article).

I would post a link to one of the threads about this, but i can't find any that actually show the numbers anymore. Everyone replaced the results w/ "repost nm".

But i did see you yourself actually posted in one of the threads that showed these numbers, so you must have seen them.

[Redcloud]

OK I can see the difference in the ads! The older ad is for the GForce "Sport" when it won best in dry and the newer ad is for the GForce "KD" when they hit the 1.08G mark! The pictures are different too. One has the Vishnu with the "Sport" tires and the other with the "KD". The vinyl on the EVO is different also. Both are great tires!!

[DRFTKNGG]

Originally Posted by CAD EVO

Corvette is not to be confused with leaf spring suspensions used in trucks and older cars; they are two completely different things. The Corvettes transverse leaf springs serve the same purpose as coil springs in other vehicles, but they are lighter, allow for the vehicles mass to be closer to the ground, and allow for lighter anti-roll bars since they can assume some of that duty. They're main disadvantage is that they are more expensive than coil springs.

Now i got it

In 84' corvette went to the Composite leaf springs improving weight/balance.

[DRFTKNGG]

Originally Posted by sonicnofadz

I seriously doubt an AWD vehicle could hold the laterally G's record. Front engine rear wheel drive is much better suited mathematically to do better on this type of performance test.

An all wheel drive vehicle holds the record my friend.............great post!
To pull over a 1G, you have some serious suspention tuning. I bet those Ohlins coilovers that are forsale on the forums would do the trick..

[kingkyle]

My other car actually holds the skidpad record on street tires...

http://www.ultimasports.co.uk/records/part4.html

Not really fair but, still a production car on street tires

-Kyle

[sonicnofadz]

What record are we talking about here? Is there some kind of great big book of skid pad test results somewhere? There is no way in hell an Evo has the skidpad record using street tires, I'm sorry but thats retarded. Are talking about race cars or stock cars? Street tires or slicks? I'm confused. The Evo is has a very high center of gravity and devote's 50% of its power to the front wheels. Since the front wheels of the Evo are trying to accelerate and turn and that same time, understeer results. A front engine rear wheel drive car (or mid/rear engine) devotes 100% power to the rear and the front wheels are for steering only. Its very plain to see that a car with a lower center of gravity (say corvette, or mclaren F1) that is rear wheel drive is going to have more grip (since the front tires are 100% devoted to TURNING). AWD sucks on the skidpad.

[SterlingEvo]

Originally Posted by sonicnofadz

What record are we talking about here? Is there some kind of great big book of skid pad test results somewhere? There is no way in hell an Evo has the skidpad record using street tires, I'm sorry but thats retarded.

read my post # 34. They are talking specifically about the Evo taking top in it's category at One Lap. Which as far as they're concerned makes it the Sport Compact record holder...

[KOEvo]

Originally Posted by sonicnofadz

What record are we talking about here? Is there some kind of great big book of skid pad test results somewhere? There is no way in hell an Evo has the skidpad record using street tires, I'm sorry but thats retarded. Are talking about race cars or stock cars? Street tires or slicks? I'm confused. The Evo is has a very high center of gravity and devote's 50% of its power to the front wheels. Since the front wheels of the Evo are trying to accelerate and turn and that same time, understeer results. A front engine rear wheel drive car (or mid/rear engine) devotes 100% power to the rear and the front wheels are for steering only. Its very plain to see that a car with a lower center of gravity (say corvette, or mclaren F1) that is rear wheel drive is going to have more grip (since the front tires are 100% devoted to TURNING). AWD sucks on the skidpad.

Mclaren F1 = .87 on the skidpad also.

[sonicnofadz]

http://www.tirerack.com/features/mot...astresults.jsp

Z06 put down 1.08G's (dry) using Michelin Pilot Sports.
88 Dodge Daytona CS put down 0.910G's (wet) Michelin Pilot Sport PS2

The only AWD car I saw on the list was an STI, but it did not win anything on the skidpad.

[3vo2005]

I think the evo does nearly 1g on the skidpad stock. Does it not?
Here is an article saying it does .98g
http://www.modernracer.com/mitsubishilancerevo9.html