<div dir="ltr">Continental is coming out with a new version of their excellent DW tires (which I run on basically everything), and lucky for us, they're going to make it in a 205-50/15.<div><br></div><div>Here's a thread talking about it on <a href="http://miata.net">miata.net</a></div><div><a href="https://forum.miata.net/vb/showthread.php?t=630864">https://forum.miata.net/vb/showthread.php?t=630864</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>And a snippet of that thread from Andy Hollis, who's been GRM go-to guy for tire testing.</div><div><br></div><div>************************</div><div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,"lucida grande",arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;margin:5px 20px 20px;background-color:rgb(246,243,243)"><div class="gmail-smallfont" style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;margin-bottom:2px">Quote:</div><table cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="gmail-alt2" style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:10pt;font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,"lucida grande",arial,helvetica,sans-serif;border:1px inset;background-image:initial;background-color:rgb(222,222,222);background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><div>Originally Posted by <strong>Gene Stanley</strong> <a href="https://forum.miata.net/vb/showthread.php?p=8344715#post8344715" rel="nofollow" style="color:rgb(82,0,0)"><img class="gmail-inlineimg" src="https://forum.miata.net/vb/miata_images/buttons/viewpost.gif" border="0" alt="View Post" title="View Post" style="vertical-align: middle; max-width: 800px;"></a></div><div style="font-style:italic">In the current issue of Grassroots Motorsports (Feb 2017) in the new product news section the Extreme Contact Sport was featured. The article did mention that the sidewall stiffness is increased by 20%. The tire was "experienced" by GRM at a private track in Palm Springs, CA. The article continued to relate that 72 sizes would be released all at once this spring and specifically mentioned 205/50R15 and 205/45R16 sizes for Miata and Honda. Pricing to be similar to the outgoing DW.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,"lucida grande",arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:rgb(246,243,243)">That was me.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,"lucida grande",arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:rgb(246,243,243)"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,"lucida grande",arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:rgb(246,243,243)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,"lucida grande",arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:rgb(246,243,243)">And I just finished an autocross and skid pad test of these tires over the weekend against the Michelin PSS on my ND. Waiting for my local track to fully dry out from recent rains to do high speed track testing.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,"lucida grande",arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:rgb(246,243,243)"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,"lucida grande",arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:rgb(246,243,243)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,"lucida grande",arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:rgb(246,243,243)">These will be VERY relevant tires for NA/NB Miata owners as a one-tire, triple-duty solution (street, track, autocross) in all conditions (wet, dry, cold, hot) above about 35 degrees or so.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,"lucida grande",arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:rgb(246,243,243)"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,"lucida grande",arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:rgb(246,243,243)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,"lucida grande",arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:rgb(246,243,243)">In short, anywhere you'd have considered a PSS you should now consider the Conti Sport. And since the Sport comes in 23" tall sizes (205/50-15 & 205/45-16) while the PSS does not, it's a big win for NA/NB Miata owners.</span><br></div><div>************************<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,"lucida grande",arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:rgb(246,243,243)"><br></span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 12:17 PM, David Pertuz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:d.pertuz@gmail.com" target="_blank">d.pertuz@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Update: <br><br></div>I could get probably some B14 wheels from Josh Palmer, but not for a few months, most likely. if I got new snows I could wait, but the current and likely future lack of snow made me reluctant to drop more money on new snows this winter, so new 3-season tires now became the priority. Direzzas would be fun, but at $125 each from the Tire Rack I don't want to spend as much money on new shoes for the SE-R as I did for new Conti DWSes for the 911, so I went with good enough and got some General Altimax RT43s installed this week. BFGs would have been perfect, but they're just not available in our sizes any more. <br><br></div>On another note, here is a clean-looking low-mileage NX in Washington state: <a href="http://bellingham.craigslist.org/cto/5936077709.html" target="_blank">http://bellingham.craigslist.<wbr>org/cto/5936077709.html</a><br><br></div>David<br></div>Chicago<br></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 9:53 AM, Kieran Lavin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kieran@kieranlavin.com" target="_blank">kieran@kieranlavin.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 11, 2017 10:51 AM<br>
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Richard K <<a href="mailto:rfrey@iupui.edu" target="_blank">rfrey@iupui.edu</a>><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">It is a long time. Does the previous post reflect an old guy that is bitchin’ about the young dude on his phone? Talk about the circle of life. 20 years ago it was
some old guy complaining about the hooligan that was ‘winding it out in second gear’ in the next lane in some Nissan. If fact, you were just going 2<sup>nd</sup> to 4<sup>th</sup> and wanted some extra rpm due to your 3 gear pop out. </span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Wingdings;font-size:11pt">J</span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">Seriously, Thanks for this listserv as it has taught me so much. My knowledge about turbos went from infancy to usable due to the time that Mike Kojima and others
invested in teaching us lurkers. Many thanks. I also learned a bunch about suspensions here.</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"> se-r [mailto:<a href="mailto:se-r-bounces@se-r-list.org" target="_blank">se-r-bounces@se-r-list<wbr>.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>David Pertuz<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 10, 2017 5:42 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Jaret Rapp<br>
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I was nearly rear-ended at a stop sign the last time I drove my SE-R (by, as expected, a young dude who wasn't paying attention because he was gazing into his phone or whatever). If that had happened it would have obviously totalled the car and, I would have
been very sad for it, but would have eventually gotten over it. Then I would have been able to immediately start seriously shopping for a non-boring replacement for my boring appliance car. but I just can't bear to get rid of the SE-R!</p>
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On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 4:32 PM, Jaret Rapp via se-r <<a style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" href="mailto:se-r@se-r-list.org" target="_blank">se-r@se-r-list.org</a>> wrote:</p>
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<span style="color:black;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">btw, not for nothing, do you all realize this list is still alive after 26 years!!! And some of us still have their original SE-R!!!</span></p>
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From: David Pertuz <<a style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" href="mailto:d.pertuz@gmail.com" target="_blank">d.pertuz@gmail.com</a>><br>
To: Christopher Scarpulla <<a style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" href="mailto:cscarpulla@gmail.com" target="_blank">cscarpulla@gmail.com</a>><br>
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<span style="color:black;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">Yeah, I just saw those again today. A bit mixed on whether I want to put tires like that on. Even when it comes to high-performance tires, which is what I'd prefer, I'd rather have
all-seasons for the rain traction and grip. And if it is cold but not yet snowy, I'd rather leave normal tires on, but summer tires are terrible in cold weather. I still remember sliding through a red light in Detroit at 15mph because I couldn't stop due to
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<span style="color:black;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><a style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" href="http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp?tireMake=Dunlop&tireModel=Direzza+ZII+Star+Spec&partnum=86HR4Z2SS&vehicleSearch=false&fromCompare1=yes" target="_blank">DIREZZA
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<span style="color:black;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">And as far as 195 or 205/50-15's go, I think we can thank the early Miata crowd for keeping the manufacturers pumping out a good supply of them.</span></p>
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