A 225 tire is not going to have near the grip that a 245 tire of the same compound will. However, based on how serious you want to be about being "competitive" and the experience level you have it really may not be worth it to you to spend the money of the wider wheel and bigger
more expensive tires. If it were me I would slap some rival s's or re71s (225's) on my old set of stockers and with the money I saved I would go to as many events as I could. Then when I felt like it really was the smaller tire holding me back I might consider the upgrade in wheel/tire size. To be honest most of the CS cars were faster than the local STX cars last year and that just goes to show that the mods don't make the car fast. Seat time, seat time, seat time, and more seat time.
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Originally Posted by jph11
So I am in a dilemma, MOney mainly being the primary issue haha. Ill see what you guys think.
Backstory, Picked up the BRZ last april, so coming up on our anniversary here soon. 
Ran a few events out at cresson as well as started autocrossing. Over the last year I have added:
Eibach pro kit springs
18x8.75 wheels on ventus v12s
JDL Header
JDL overpipe
JDL Mid
Perrin cat back
Custom OFT Tune from shiv
I could tell last year that tires were definitely holding me back. Everyone is saying go with R71Rs so that is the plan. But then comes money...
Regardless I will be picking up at least a set for Autocross/track only, but the question is:
do I buy the tires for my old stock wheels and use them for track ant autox only, or is it really worth it to wait until i can afford wider (most likely RPF1s) track wheels and tires.
Do we think the stock size width to aftermarket width is making that much of a difference, or do you guys think it is negligible between the two.
I guess the question is, What kind of times were we seeing last year from c street cars vs stx cars (on stock wheels) with racing tires. |