How to PROPERLY select and size TIRES for PERFORMANCE
 

Billy Johnson tells us how to PROPERLY select and size TIRES for PERFORMANCE on MotoIQ.com:

http://www.motoiq.com/MagazineArticl...RFORMANCE.aspx

18x12" wheels with 215/40R18 tires.

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good stuff and so true. Tires are the only part of a car that touch the road, so a cheap bad tire can easily wreck everything, or a tire simply not meant for the conditions.

As an example, when I was living in florida I bought a set of tires for my yaris. They were phenomenal for dry handling and I loved them. But when I moved back to the boston area, the first winter I was able to get my car stuck in 3" of slush because my all season tires simply were never meant to be driven in snow. Or even better, I managed to almost do a 360 and smash into a few trees when driving off an exit ramp onto a road with a bump in between when I was only doing 20 mph. Really scary staring out the windshield right into a forest while penduleming back and forth almost a full 180° several times. I enjoyed it but I am sure the drivers around me were totally freaked out.

I think the bolded are the relevant parts of that claim, if we want to speak in absolutes. Which should almost never be done.

#245ona7
#stuffedonthere

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So all that, what he just wanted to say to buy good quality tires. Regardless of how narrow or wide they are.

So a high quality wide tire would out preform a narrow high quality tire?

I seen way too many stance nation guys have blow outs on the freeway/autox. Replacing extreme uneven wear on expensive sticky tires, just to achieve a look. But it's their car, their money. I'll just point and laugh, and use that money spent on tires for a track day or what ever.

How to PROPERLY select and size TIRES for PERFORMANCE
 

I really think our car should have some with a staggered setup like 215 front 235 rear. Instead of drift all you want 215 square.

Anyone running something similar? 😁

This should be in the general tire section. Once you start racing, tire and wheel selection is almost entirely dependant on the ruleset.

Perhaps you should balance that rear ;)

Nooo I love that you can easily rotate the tires on this platform.

I can't imagine how bad the understeer would be if that was the only change off the showroom floor on my car. I probably wouldn't have bothered modifying it and just sold it for something else...

There is absolutely no reason to run a staggered setup on this car beyond aethestics.

Seriously.

Well if you made it a drag car...

How to PROPERLY select and size TIRES for PERFORMANCE
 

Come on guys so much negativity. It's not gonna understeer in that setup. 😂 it will just be more track oriented.

:iono:

I just really didn't like how my car handled stock until I got camber plates, staggered setup would have made it noticeably worse, especially for the track.

sorry I don't have much of a sense of humor about it

:cheers:

*Shit 86 Owners Say
"Staggered wheels because S2000"