Have 3 track days and maybe a hundred or two street miles on these new Dunlop Direzza ZIII's. Previous had the zII Star Specs, they lasted probably 10k street miles and probably 10 track days before they were completely done. I feel like these ZIII's are not at all going to live as long. Granted, 2 of the 3 days were at a track known to eat tires, and all three were in ~ 90F temps. Running 35 PSI hot. I have a full season of track days under my belt, but still drive towards the front of the Novice group (our org has only 3 classes). Car is essentially stock, minus better brakes and cooling.

Would appreciate if anyone can take a look at the pics, these are the front tires. The middle piece of tread is much more worn towards one edge than the other. There's quite a bit of missing rubber, visible as little "craters". At least some of the missing rubber looks like it goes pretty far down. There's an odd strip of rubber along one edge too - you can see me holding it up in the picture. The outside edge of the tire is also a noticeably different color than the rest of the tread.

My main question - Is this typical wear, and appears accelerated because I'm actually using the tires now, or is something wrong? Car has had a recent alignment, as best it can get with all stock suspension. Maybe 35 PSI is way too high? I'm seeing wear down into the little triangles on the side, so I'm afraid to go much lower. Could my 18 year old stock suspension that's essentially bumpstop-less be the cause?

 

 

Suggestions: update your suspension with rebuilt billies and coil over sleeves, build an alignment string setup, buy a probe type tire pyrometer.

Without the pyrometer, you really dont know if your alignment settings are working for you, then you have the string setup to measure your alignment adjustments, and good shocks and proper rate springs for your tire grip...

Maybe get a sleeve kit from sadfab and put energy bushings and grease fittings in all the control arms, that way alignment settings stay put during load, and you probably need to do them anyways

 

You need more camber or stiffer springs to reduce body roll.

 

Makes sense, thanks for the advice guys. Just got seats and harnesses, working on cooling (reroute, hood vents, already have better rad), and will tackle suspension next. I'll likely just skip straight to Xidas and do full bushings at the same time. Gotta pace myself...