tires advice

[stevenoreaga215]

im trying to find realy good tires for road racing (high speed cornering)..anyone know what type tire an what brand ?

[djphonics]

You need to be more specific about what you're doing with these tires. However, if you're looking for something for that will work decently on the streets as well as on autocross,etc... I can personally recommend these:

Falken Azenis
Kumho Ecsta SPT

[benji]

I've run some Ecsta's as well, and I liked them a lot, but they seemed to wear out for be pretty fast.

Right now I have some BFG g-force Sports, and they are very grippy, but the sidewalls are a little soft, so I feel a bit of body roll from them (I have stock tire size. Probably wouldn't notice it if I had low-pros). They also wear semi fast, but I expected that from them cause of the 320 rating.

I'm looking around at what I'm going to try next. I usually just go to tirerack.com and look that the high performance All season catagory, and then read reviews of what people thought.

[kit-to-lip]

if ur lowered w/neg camber (better for turning) nitto neo gen r nice, im going to try them next. they have a harder compound on the inside and it get softer as it goes out so ur tire wears evenly and in turns ur tire gets stickier as more pressure is moved to the outside of the tire.

[mikesCB-7]

if ur lowered w/neg camber (better for turning) nitto neo gen r nice, im going to try them next. they have a harder compound on the inside and it get softer as it goes out so ur tire wears evenly and in turns ur tire gets stickier as more pressure is moved to the outside of the tire.

NEOGEN FTW!!!!! <------ thats the way to go man.... stick with a hard compound and low pro, unless this is street use too?

[91 LX]

I have toyo proxes 4 and I love em! Good grip, Good cornering. Only downfall is somewhat high price.

[GreenMadness]

Neogen are good, but really $$$

i race my accord on Nelson Ledges, which has 13 turns in 2 miles. I tried Fuzion ZR-i's and they have an amazing side wall, the tire went completly molten and wore GREAT... BUT tire PSI is more important than the tire, it doesn't matter who made the tire! if you dont have the right pressure for your driving style and car set up than you have a snowballs chance in hell of using the full grip of the tires.

Also, road course racing will trash streets with-in a few weekend warrior runs... AUTOX will do it even quicker... so your decision wont be long lived.

- Another important note, if you just want to try it and you have another set of rims, go to a race track holding SCCA events and snag some qualifying tires from one of the tire places. they have to pay to get rid of them so its easier to give them away. Most racers during practice qualifying/ qualifying runs wont leave a tire on long because they are only interested in the best times, so you can have 1-2 more heat cycles left, which for a weekend warrior could be a month+... meaning you scored RACE SLICKS for free, i have got hoosiers, khumos, and michillens before, just look for some meaty ones that are close to an even ware


if you want to see the track i am talking about its on the home page Nelson Ledges Road Course

-if you look at the left side of the picture, the 2 part kink, the last part i was going ~110 trying to catch a BMW

[victork]

plus 1 on falken azenis, their the best imo!

[Losiracer2]

BFG G-Force Sports. That's what I run in a low pro 215/45r17. Its a good all around tire, loads of grip and quiet on the highway. It has very predictable handling, won't suprise you when you really drive hard.

[verderacer]

Yokohama Advan AD4B's or AD32R's

[deevergote]

You need to be specific about where you'll be racing, when you'll be racing, what circuits you plan on competing in, and in what condition. No single tire is going to be good for everything. A real racing tire, anything that will be competitive, will not be street legal. Anything that is street legal will not be a real racing tire.

Most circuit races have a specific tire requirement anyway. You can't choose which tires you want to run.

[quaidum]

i have nitto neo gen 205-50-15 in the stock ex rim i love them i deliver pizzas so the hard compound is great i have run the fuzions hri on my first accord and they gripped amazingly but wore fast another good tire is the yokahoma parada spec 2

[deevergote]

Going by the OP's previous posts, I'm sure his "road racing" involves public roads... If that's true, I recommend Nikes... Walk. We don't need more idiots on the roads.

If he really IS looking into real road racing, on a track, then none of those street tires you guys are recommending will hold up. Perhaps they'd be fun enough for an open track day for solo racing, but they're not going to work in competition (and probably wouldn't even be allowed.)

Check into the Nitto NT555R II Extreme. That is a true competition tire.