When i bought my new rims a couple months ago, money was kinda short so i ended up putting Kumho's on 'em (205/40/17), neve had em before, and haven't had em to the track yet. I had Potenza's prior to the new rims. Any comments/experiences with them??

 

You've just answered your own question. Good for the low price. Not as good as Nitto or the higher priced tires.

 

doesn't firestone make the potenza??

kumho's are OK for the money, do not expect them to perform like a bfg or nitto or anything remotely related. i work for a local tire company (actually a national corp. lol) and we sell the shit out of kumho's... don't ask me why, but we do. i guess you could classify them as an 'economy performance' tire

not to be an ass... but if you're running only a 14s 1/4 time, then you should be ok. i wouldn't imagine that you're going to over-torque the tires.

 

lol, it's cool. It's just a neon, and i'm a NA guy, so i dont think i'll be getting much faster w/o turbo, etc. Did i read your profile right? Is that a 2.3 turbo stang you're running 13 in?? If so thats cool, i've only seen like 3 of those

 

turbo 2.3?? nah, not me. i have an auto 5.0L, but that's been a 15.9 @ 54mph this year so nothing to really brag about

 

Yeah i had a 5.0 '87 tbird, looked nice but i was ashamed to even say it was a 5.0 cause it absolutely sucked balls!! lol

 

exactly!

 

I don't think he was asking about drag radials. Kumho's are one of the better tires for your dollar on the market. Which potenza's did you have? Some of them, like the S02's, RE730's, etc. are VERY good tires as far as cornering/grip goes.

 

Although i'm not saying the H.O. 5.0s aren't capable of being bad ass, but the t-birb was the crap version of it, something like 140hp

 

RE730s. And yeah they were awesome!! I hated that they wore out, even in the rain they handled great!!