I am having a hard time making my tires chirp when doing 1st to 2nd. Am I not shifting quick enough?? Im on stock S02's and they have 4000miles on it. Maybe when tires wear out a little more I can chirp??? HELP!!!

 

I heard a black type-R chirping down the street where I work - he was chirping from 1-2-3...

Pretty impressive I thought...

My Stook doesn't chirp either, hmm...???

 

At first, I thought the chirp couldn't be done on fresh tires, so after wearing them down quite a bit, I could do it at will. Well, pulling out of the tire shop today with bran-friggin-new AVS Sports (245/45's on the rear), I gave it the gun and the rears chirped at will - proved that theory wrong. So, there is sufficient power to do this - you just gotta hit right.

 

I guess I am not doing it right. Sometimes I get frustrated because someone I know has Civic DX and he chirps all the time.....I guess my time will come.

 

You guys sound like a bunch of birds

 

It really depends on the conditions if you can get a chirp...you have to remember that the S02's are some of the grippiest tires around. They don't let loose easily. Moreover, when they do, they are such a soft compound that they are very quiet about it. Only under precise conditions have I been able to make mine make noise. And that usually happens on a racetrack...but occasionally, when I am near a children's school for the blind crossing zone in the ambulance arrival/departure area of the cancer hospital do I light it up and get the S02's to make noise.



They are just very quiet, very very grippy tires...

T'is better to grip than to slip while upshifting...

 

I can sometimes get 3rd to chirp a little. I don't know if it's because my car is breaking in or if the tires are wearing out. Dont shift until the tach starts flashing.

 

quite true Greg, and I didn't think about it, but I guess it would probably be much easier for me to chrip new 220 treadwear rated tires than the 160 treadwears of the S02's (or is it 180? regardless, a little bit harder tire).

 

Sound like bunch of birds?!?!?! Maybe we shouldn't use the word chirp....English is not my 1st language so anyone want to replace chirp with something else??? I can't think of any......

 

I've chirped in my Civic back in the days. I haven't really wanted to in my S.