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jimbo
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S1 pressures

Post by jimbo » Thu Oct 11, 2012 8:12 pm

Don't have a handbook to check. What tyre pressures should my s1 111s be running? I've always had 25 front and 26 rear?

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Re: S1 pressures

Post by campbell » Thu Oct 11, 2012 10:42 pm

23 front
27.5 rear (if 225)

24.5 if 205 (does anyone use them anymore!)

From my factory fresh handbook, courtesy of Craig at Murray :thumbsup

However...also depends on type of tyre. Those settings were for OEM PIrelli P-Zeros back in the day. I tend to run my Toyo T1-Rs a couple of PSI harder than that, helps offset the softer sidewalls.

Set em up, go have a play, then change em and try again.

The biggest impact is varying differential between front and rear...you can induce some amounts of over / understeer through this, I'm told by an old friend...
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Re: S1 pressures

Post by Shug » Fri Oct 12, 2012 8:46 am

Tends to be personal choice as well - I always ran the rears 2psi higher than the fronts and used the fronts as the barometer. Set pressures to get the steering weight I wanted, then stick rears 2psi higher. On the 48s, that ended up between 20f/22r and 24f/26r on the road, dependant on what I was doing.

More a personal choice/set up tool than a simple right/wrong though (within reason)
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