: avalanche engineering has some wacky tires!!


spencurai
03-27-2002, 12:43 PM
whoa man avalanche engineering is marketing some funky michelin tires. anyone ever even seen these things before?!?
http://www.avalancheengr.com/bulletin/bigtires.htmhttp://www.avalancheengr.com/beadlocks/bigass2.jpg

dangerber
03-27-2002, 12:48 PM
Those look like the 53" or something 6x6 tires...? :eek:

TNToy
03-27-2002, 12:51 PM
If you'd visited general4x4 in the last month or two, you'd know they've been talked about tons, and that Daniel can get you them for much cheaper than Avalanche.

...and Dangerber got it right. They're 6x6 tires.

RoCkSkuLLz
03-27-2002, 12:53 PM
the tires on the assassin are the 48" michelin military tires. also http://www.rockskullz.com/phpBB2/images/smiles/iamwithstupid.gif

poppycock
03-27-2002, 01:03 PM
those mathed with gozuki's rockwells... under a zuk.... man i want to see that happen!! someone should go for it. :D

Root Moose
03-27-2002, 03:50 PM
Michelin XCL?

r@m

incontrol
03-27-2002, 05:37 PM
Yep, saw them at ProRocks.

http://www.allprooffroad.com/xtoys/prorock2002/8670.jpg


http://www.allprooffroad.com/xtoys/prorock2002/8672.jpg

spencurai
03-27-2002, 07:24 PM
now i know where i have seen that tread pattern.......on those massive osh-kosh 6x6 beasts that the guard has up the street from my house. one of those things pulled up behind me at a stop light where we were facing downhill at a very steep angle and i thought i was a goner!!! me and my zuk would have literally been a 2' slab of metal and guts!!! but i was drooling on those tires!!! they are badass:beer: :beer:http://media5.motorcities.com/99KAB533526749C.jpg

spencurai
03-27-2002, 07:29 PM
imagine this is your rear view bearing down on your little 2000lb zuki!!!!
http://media5.motorcities.com/99KAB533526749B.jpg

DougO
03-27-2002, 09:58 PM
I use to run the wrecker model of that when I was ActiveDuty that thing was so fun to play with :D 1250ft lbs of torque at like 1500rpms ;-) course it maxed at like 3K rpm ... 60K lb main recovery winch w/ 200' of 1" cable

6x6?! oh no, 8 x 8 x 4 :p