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Old Oct 12, 2008 | 06:04 AM
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I need to replace my tires soon. I would like to get as much rubber on the ground as possible without rolling the fenders or adjusting camber. Keeping the stock 18x9 fronts and 19x10 rear wheels, what have you all tried that worked?
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Old Oct 16, 2008 | 06:46 AM
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Search bro, there's a **** load of threads for this.
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Old Oct 16, 2008 | 06:48 AM
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tires big can you go? go big tires can you? big you can tires go?
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Old Oct 16, 2008 | 10:28 AM
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don't let them get to you, I would like to know this two for the Nismo. I have done some searching but their is an overwhelming amount of information on it and most of the time I don't understand what the heck people are talking about.

I would like to put 375/35 on the rears and 255/40 on the front or something to that degree.

But I always think to myself... Nissan probably put the stock tire sizes in place for a reason. Maybe performance to weight (just a random example) or some other reason.

I mean BMW uses the same tire with as the Nismo on their M3 as well. Is there something better about the 245 265 combo than others out there?
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Old Oct 16, 2008 | 01:05 PM
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don't let them get to you, I would like to know this two for the Nismo. I have done some searching but their is an overwhelming amount of information on it and most of the time I don't understand what the heck people are talking about.

I would like to put 375/35 on the rears and 255/40 on the front or something to that degree.

But I always think to myself... Nissan probably put the stock tire sizes in place for a reason. Maybe performance to weight (just a random example) or some other reason.

I mean BMW uses the same tire with as the Nismo on their M3 as well. Is there something better about the 245 265 combo than others out there?
375 on the rear? You'll be giving yourself more drag during normal driving than it would be worth to have the extra grip for acceleration. Unless you have a TT kit on an HR putting out 700+ horsepower that would be completely unnecessary. Maybe you don't realize how wide a 375 is, but not even the ZR1 C6 Corvette comes with those.
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Old Oct 16, 2008 | 01:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Lento
don't let them get to you, I would like to know this two for the Nismo. I have done some searching but their is an overwhelming amount of information on it and most of the time I don't understand what the heck people are talking about.

I would like to put 375/35 on the rears and 255/40 on the front or something to that degree.

But I always think to myself... Nissan probably put the stock tire sizes in place for a reason. Maybe performance to weight (just a random example) or some other reason.

I mean BMW uses the same tire with as the Nismo on their M3 as well. Is there something better about the 245 265 combo than others out there?

375 on a stock nismo????LMAO!!!!!! not even Z06's go 375, y the hell would you want to do that???LMAO!!!!!
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Old Oct 16, 2008 | 01:28 PM
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I'm thinking the 375 was a typo. Perhaps 275?
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Old Oct 16, 2008 | 01:30 PM
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285/35/19 R 255/40/18 F
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Old Oct 16, 2008 | 01:44 PM
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Old Oct 16, 2008 | 01:48 PM
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Originally Posted by davidv
WOW.....thats a tire big
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Old Oct 16, 2008 | 02:14 PM
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Lol i guess 375 would be a bit outrageous. Typo I meant to say 275

But its good to know how fast you guys can pick out a flaw. Any of you want to volunteer to come to my finance class and pick my professor apart, god I would love that.
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Old Oct 16, 2008 | 06:05 PM
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Are you running 30 offsets with this set-up. Thanks
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