Bridgestone Adrenalin RE001 vs PP2 vs rest?

jerrah · Postby **jerrah** » Fri Feb 11, 2011 7:41 pm

de Bounce wrote:As marcusus has stated, a number of forum members have turned fast and consistent time on RE001's

I do ok on my Australian 195/50/15 RE001's. I actually went from Yoko Semi's to the RE001's AND fitted stiffer swaybars and had a dramatic improvement on my lap times.

Yes - the swaybars were probably the reason for the better times but the only place I found the RE001's let me down was under hard braking where I couldn't brake as late or as hard.

Now the NA6 is pushing a fair bit more power it will be interesting to see how I go with them next time the club heads to the track.

jerrah · Postby **jerrah** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 6:10 pm

Speaking of RE001's and their performance in the wet:

Yesterday at the club track day it was fairly wet and I had a lot of trouble with traction in the corners, after spending about half the day spinning out I lost confidence in the tyres and started eyeing off what other people were using. I then checked my tyre pressures which had dropped from when I checked them last to 25.5psi. Now I was a bit of an idiot to do a track day checking everything BUT tyre pressures but they're normally so consistant I didn't check them this time.

I upped the pressure to 36psi for my last two sessions and the RE001's held on very well, confidence returned 110% and I gave challenge to cars running semi-slicks. Maybe this reputation of poor weather performance is related to the tyre pressures used by the relative owners because it was a night and day difference for me!

PaulF · Postby **PaulF** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 6:40 pm

For what it's worth, my dad's just put Taiwan-made RE001's on his MGA - 195/60/15, from memory. Will let you know what they're like once we've run an event or two.

jerrah · Postby **jerrah** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 4:07 pm

At 25.5psi

I could do these corners easily with confidence at 36psi.

NMX516 · Postby **NMX516** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 9:28 pm

As a slight aside, without PP2's being made anymore, the new version is Pilot Sport 3. Despite the sizes listed on the Michelin Australia website, Michelin Australia have advised me that 205/45/16 are available within Australia!! Good news for those of us with NB8B wheels

I'm yet to ask my local tyre guy though...

Caffeine · Postby **Caffeine** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 10:23 pm

NMX516 wrote:As a slight aside, without PP2's being made anymore, the new version is Pilot Sport 3. Despite the sizes listed on the Michelin Australia website, Michelin Australia have advised me that 205/45/16 are available within Australia!! Good news for those of us with NB8B wheels I'm yet to ask my local tyre guy though...

I have ps3's on my other car. A very good tyre indeed.