Spartan

I need some new tires and wheels....
Planning on getting HREs in the winter...
Tires....I have always been a fan of Bridgestone Pole Positions....Anyone have experience with these?
The S0-3 series really impresses me from what I have read.
I was racing my girlfriends brother (99-Z28) and from a dead start I could not get any serious traction....Just tire smoke!!! Let it be known that I have stock 16s. I just thought they would hold better. I dont think I would have lost with Mo's HFI and the TC. I took him from 80MPHP-130MPH on the freeway. The GS just kept going while the Camaro just gave up at the higher end. I reall think I could take him in the curves too. We hit a really curvy S-curve area and I just hammered it through there while the Camaro leaned and rolled from side to side. That is why I got the Teins and the TRD strut brace. All in all I am nto so happy with my lack of traction. It's not like I could lay off the accelerator till I get the traction. He is already fast froma dead start.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
MIKE

chino78

Wider tires. Just go with something around 10.5 inches in the back and 8.5 in the front. I power break my car when I race (just when I'm serious) hold the break hard and slowly ease the gas to around 2,000 RPM and then let the break go and stand on the gas. You'll get a little chirp sometimes a spin depending on the road surface. But make sure you turn the VSC off if not as soon as you get tire spin it will power down the engine and even apply the breaks in some cases. I have a stock 430 and I keep up with Corvette C5's and lower ALL the time, especially majority of the idiots that buy them that have no clue how to shift. I also have platnium 16's with stock tires. Hopefully I'll have my 19 inch Lowenharts soon though.

bitkahuna

iTrader: (20)

spartan - more rubber is the only way to get more traction. If anything, the TC and HFI (the TC mainly) will make things worse as far as launch wheelspin.

With my 265s I never spin the tires, although I don't do a brake/gas start.

Bobcat

Chino...

what kind of 19" lowenharts are you getting?

since you are a "racer" I figured you might go with something a bit more on the performance side like HRE rims (?)

Spartan

Chino...I am getting HREs. Fromt he day I saw those on the HRE site and then when I saw them on the Swift Racing GS in person I have been dead set on them.
I am pretty sure that I would be getting 245 8" wide in the fronts and 10" (I dont know if I can go 10.5) 285 or 295 s03's in the rear. If this doesn't give me the rubber I need then I will never find the traction I need.
Thanks
MIKE

JacobT

Mike,

LSD is the answer to your question. I came from there, so I know. After the TC installed, I got wheel spin every time I stepped on it even though I had 285/35/18 in the rear. My previous set of tires only lasted for 7k miles. After I got the TRD LSD installed, I can hardly smoke my tires any more