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Originally Posted by hail2thetheif
Good info so far! Appreciate the thoughts.
To give an idea about what I plan to do with the car to better make the wheel/tire choice:
I'd like to add some performance to the car but I'm not a track day fiend even though I most definitely will be planning on doing that a few times a year. I'm looking to get into autox as much as I can over the year though. So really I'm not sure if 7.5 or 8 width matters all that much if I put some really nice tires on them? I'm truly open to anything as this is a new area of attention for me with this being my first RWD car. I come from the land of STi swapped GC/GF Imprezas.
I'm not trying to become the best of the best or anything so I don't think I'll need to be putting on 265's or anything in that realm. Ideally I'd love to get an affordable set of wheels that are light to avg weight and put some good rubber on them.
On the not so performance end of it, I really do like the more meaty tire look than "show car" low profile vibe.
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The "best" auto cross tire may tend to "go off" to quickly on a road course. Autocross you want peak grip without having to put much heat into the tire. Road course you want stable grip over a longer time period (20 minutes rather than 1 minute) and most likely a higher operating temp.
You also need to consider the class rules with autocross if you want to be competative as that will determine your tire and wheel choices.