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dwasson
09-06-2005, 02:50 PM
From: http://www.kumho-euro.com/news/news050801.html

KUMHO debuts red smoke drifting tyre



KUMHO TYRES has notched up another first: a tyre that produces red smoke. A special version of KUMHO's ECSTA MX ultra high performance road and track day tyre, known as the ECSTA MX-C made its public debut with Enjuku Racing at the Formula Drift event at Road Atlanta in the US in May.
http://www.kumho-euro.com/images/redsmoke0501.jpg
The ECSTA MX-C was initially developed at the KUMHO American Technical Center in Akron, Ohio where the company's scientists found the right mix of chemicals to make red smoke and, following successful testing, a limited number of the new tyres were made.

Now the MX-C looks set to take the UK drifting scene by storm after UK drifting champion Brett Castle and drifting guru Phil Morrison demonstrated the tyres to the press and customers at Rockingham Motor Speedway in July.

Petrograde
09-06-2005, 03:13 PM
This is why we are the greatest nation on Earth! :flag: God Bless America!

...can I get them in blue or green? :P

MM2004
09-06-2005, 03:35 PM
I got it!

Three S/c'ers all doing burnouts at the same time, . .

Red

White

Blue.

Filmed with Jimi Hendrix playing the Star Spangled Banner. :burnout:

That is "American". :beer:

MarauderMark
09-06-2005, 03:58 PM
Come in Black? :cool:
Heres the video...
<a href="http://videos.streetfire.net/iPlayer.aspx?fileid=BE46630B-A148-405C-9CA8-266A36876ED0" target="_blank"><img src="http://thumbs.streetfire.net/BE46630B-A148-405C-9CA8-266A36876ED0.jpg" width="115" height="86"></a><br><a href="http://videos.streetfire.net/iPlayer.aspx?fileid=BE46630B-A148-405C-9CA8-266A36876ED0" target="_blank">Click to see Video</a>

BruteForce
09-06-2005, 05:14 PM
Video sounds like he's got a hornet nest under the hood. :lol:


Come in Black? :cool:
Heres the video...
<a href="http://videos.streetfire.net/iPlayer.aspx?fileid=BE46630B-A148-405C-9CA8-266A36876ED0" target="_blank"><img src="http://thumbs.streetfire.net/BE46630B-A148-405C-9CA8-266A36876ED0.jpg" width="115" height="86"></a><br><a href="http://videos.streetfire.net/iPlayer.aspx?fileid=BE46630B-A148-405C-9CA8-266A36876ED0" target="_blank">Click to see Video</a>

MM2004
09-13-2005, 10:33 AM
Hey! They're working on blue, . .

The ECSTA MX-C was developed at the KUMHO Technical Center in Akron, OH. “At a product meeting here late last summer, several people were talking about the sport of drifting,” said Guy Edington, manager of the Technical Center. “While watching a drifting video, someone opined that it would be cool if the tire smoke coming off the cars was colored.”

From there the idea blossomed, and Jim Palombo, KUMHO’s senior product chemist, and Gary Bradnick, lead lab technologist, set about looking for a way to make colored smoke. They developed the right mix of chemicals and now have a patent pending for their colorful compound (they’ve also developed a compound that produces blue tire smoke). Following successful testing, KUMHO produced a limited number of the tires.

“We don’t intend to sell the ECSTA MX-C to the general public,” said KUMHO brand director Rick Brennan. “We built them to demonstrate our forward thinking, technical capabilities and ability to respond quickly to the market. Like our race-winning ALMS tire, the MX-C was developed in a very short time—about six months. And like our 26-inch and 28-inch light truck tires, the MX-C gets attention by charting new territory that no other tire company even thought about entering.”

Here's a link to the video to save on your local, . . .

http://www.kumhousa.com/News/Images/KUMHO-redsmoke.wmv

RoyLPita
09-13-2005, 11:07 AM
Makes you wonder if breathing that crap in will make you grow a tail, a 3rd eye and have a hunch back.

Mike Poore
09-13-2005, 12:47 PM
KUMHO debuts red smoke drifting tyre

I understand they go for about $1300 a pop! :eek:

Um ...that's tyre to you sophisticates.;)


Hey Dan! :)

ckadiddle
09-13-2005, 06:23 PM
I got it!

Three S/c'ers all doing burnouts at the same time, . .

Red

White

Blue.

Filmed with Jimi Hendrix playing the Star Spangled Banner. :burnout:

That is "American". :beer:Awesome , Dude!

ckadiddle
09-13-2005, 06:26 PM
UUuuuummm....they could make one with smoke that gets you real high and name it just ECSTA-C.
:lol:

DEFYANT
09-13-2005, 06:52 PM
The ultimate in "RICE".

Mike Poore
09-13-2005, 07:12 PM
The ultimate in "RICE".
Trouble is, Charlie; the Riceboys with those front drive *****boxes can't spin 'em anyway. :rofl:

HwyCruiser
09-14-2005, 07:15 PM
Another video of red burnouts:

GTO eats a set of Kumhos (http://automobilemag.com/video/0510_pontiac_gto_kumho/)

1stMerc
09-14-2005, 08:27 PM
I got it!

Three S/c'ers all doing burnouts at the same time, . .

Red

White

Blue.

Filmed with Jimi Hendrix playing the Star Spangled Banner. :burnout:

That is "American". :beer:
Or Vanessa Williams or Whitney Houston or Ray Charles singing
America the Beautiful

What a concept :banana2: