Ok about me and my goals:
Driving lvl: got my license 22 yrs ago
racing exp: (2 track events stock). lots of drag racing.
Goals: Enjoy my Daily Driver at the track for a long time.
Mods: Drop in filter, and maybe a tune later on (too expensive right now)
Events: Mostly tracks (solo 1), not a lot of Autox here in PR
So, I've gone through almost all 22 pages in this forum section, and found a lot of good info here, thank you all who contributes to it. and now hopefully some of the guru's here will send me on the right path
So here we go:
Recently I got some used 5zingen FNO1R-C 17x7 not sure on the offset ( hey $500 bucks can go wrong with that ) so almost stock rims. So The question is, What tire size???? of course...
As I stated before I want to to reduce the stress on components, my driving lvl is novice, so they are not getting to stressed out as it is right now , but eventually I will get better (I hope) and start getting close to the limits of the car. I am getting seat time, instructor help and reading a lot to avoid and correct bad habits (the shifter is for acceleration not slowing the car down ) and so on.
So 215,225,235,240 /40 or 45/ 17. I've seen and read all this tires sizes on the FRS, with the stock rims. Just don't want to over do it and get tires I don't really need or are going shorten the life of suspension components unnecessarily or even worst end up making me slower and mess up with gearing and what ever other theory's the conspiracy aficionados come up with in the forums.(they do get pretty creative)
Oh yeah not competing against anyone or anything like that, but I do want to avoid getting placed with a lot faster cars that are e going to catch up to me pretty quickly and increase my stress level while i'm trying to learn and practice, so that's also the reason for stock as possible.
Just trying to get my confidence level up a little. the Stock Michelin tires are tail happy and not very confidence inspiring, and there is a Lot of cement walls and tire mountains in the track, so I really want to avoid those, and still learn my lines, smooth out my driving and improve little by little.
