Mac,
I've run my Honda for 6 years now, and I can tell you, they eat front tires. However, if you keep them rotated between races (days), they aren't so bad. We've run the six hour at TWS, and, this year MSRH for the past five years, and I've run the ECR series at Daytona and Road Atlanta. For the ECR short races, I've never had trouble with the Hoosiers I run normally. But for the six hour, I buy six new tires and come home with four usable test tires. This was the first year that I didn't have to change the fronts by the fourth hour driver change. Normally, they are corded. This year we changed from Kumho 215/50R13 to Toyo 205/60R13, plus we changed courses to what I thought would be a tire eater.
It's not fair to the manufactures to compare the different wear as there were too many variables changed...one of which was dropping a driver that could tear up an anvil, much less tires. My car only weighs 1960 dry and with me in it. Almost 65% of the weight is on the front end and biased to the left front. I need to work on that...and my fat ass. You are looking at a car with a lot more weight and torque that might kill the front tires, but they are at least larger. My friends that run Integras usually ditch their fronts after each weekend, but they don't normally run long enduros other than the ECR type stuff, and they run Hoosiers for those.
I figure a Hoosier would last okay, but they would be toast possibly earlier and are a lot more expensive for a long enduro. My experiences with enduros is to out last rather than out run. :snow_cool:
