you win!


I want those rims for street wheels. 18" R comps are too much $$$ for me.

 

lower it.

 

 

Now I'll never catch Bradley

 

I just got the same setup tirewise, albeit on a cheaper, heavier set of wheels. Now I need to drop it...but I set 4th fastest raw time of the day today out of about 70 cars ^_^ even beat a Z06 on Hoosiers. Congrats! its a **** ton of fun haha

 

ahhhh not to say we're all Michael Schumachers here but most people, soccers moms and middle aged men who never go near the limit, will overcorrect and hook it. Its easier to get yourself into big trouble with oversteer ESPECIALLY if youre not used to having a car go sideways on you.

most of the guys here are not the average Z driver...the little 'how to fit 2 golf bags' diagram shows who its marketed to...old guys and old chicks who dont use it for what it is, a sports car, and just buy it cause it looks cool.

 

^ Ya I agree that oversteer is more dangerous than understeer and if your used that, then it can be very dangerous

 

understeer scares "drivers" whereas oversteer scares "passengers" (think VW commercial re: the definition of each)

 

Why did you go with such a small diameter tire? OEM diamter is 26.4" in the rear and you put on tires with a diameter of 24.7". It looks weird.

 

Smaller diam tires allow you to accelerate faster (lower effective overall gear ratio) but you give up some top speed. Brad autocrosses so speed isn't a problem.

 

Oh..... That makes sense.

 

almost all 18" hoosier/kumho race tires have extremely low profile...less squirm for better steering response. Ya dont use race tires to look cool. mine looks like a 4x4 with these 285/30-18's on stock springs/shocks

 

nice, looking for same combo. Don't think 285 is too big. I was thinking like a 265 all around.

 

wow...nice setup man

 

Thanks for the comments guys. I did pretty good with 255s but the car needed more tire for sure. So hopefully these 285s will do. These are mostly for autocross, I did a couple track days last year on street tires but I might use these instead. There's an event this weekend if I go I'll let you guys know how it goes.

 

bahhh! you can fit 295's all around (Hoosiers) if ya really want to. ive got no problems running 285's right now, getting some spacers to give myself a little extra room if I need full steering lock.

 

Hey Axelerate...did you ever remove the spacers from the rears?
And just to clarify, you did not run spacers up front because of your camber setting, right?
I haven't bought A-arms yet so I was concerned about clearance until I do.
What about +15 all around? Would that be too agressive???
Thanks

 

For the track you want to stay in the high 20's range. Function > fashion.

 

I hear ya. I was speaking to the inside clearance that seems pretty tight depending on the camber.

 

You don't need to run spacers for the +25 17x10's.

For +15 you would need some more negative camber up front to keep from hitting the fender.