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I am staring to look for new autox wheels and tires this spring and want to step down to a 18. What tires do you recommend and what sizes? I

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Old 01-18-2014, 07:47 PM   #1 (permalink)
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I am staring to look for new autox wheels and tires this spring and want to step down to a 18. What tires do you recommend and what sizes? I am currently running Advan AD08's in 275/30/19 F and 295/35/19 R. The wheels I am looking at are the new SSR GTV01's 18x9.5et 22 F and 19x10.5 et15 rear. It's the same width and offset that my Type F's are now. I am not looking at slicks since I want to improve before I jump to that level. Slicks will hide my bad habits at this point.
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Will these be dedicated ax wheels? For street tires I live BFG rival or Dunlop Direnzzia II. Dot r I like Nitto NT01 as a nice intermediate tire.
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Yep, dedicated autox wheels. My Type Fs will be my DD set.
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Is square ok for autox? Only thing I can really find in what I want is the Hankook RS-3 in a 285/35/18.
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I run in ASP so I could run square if I want
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Is square ok for autox? Only thing I can really find in what I want is the Hankook RS-3 in a 285/35/18.
Depends on the classing you're trying for. If the rules allow it then I'd go for it. IMHO going to a square setup was the best mod I made to the car for AutoX.
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Holy **** the price just went up over a $100 a tire though. BS!
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I'm trying to stay in ASP. I will have to double check the rules but I am already well past stock tire sizes right now anyway. If I ran a 285 up front, should I get a wider wheel?
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I'm trying to stay in ASP. I will have to double check the rules but I am already well past stock tire sizes right now anyway. If I ran a 285 up front, should I get a wider wheel?
If I remember right tires and wheels are open in ASP. fwiw I run 295 A6's on 10" wide wheels up front.
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I'm trying to stay in ASP. I will have to double check the rules but I am already well past stock tire sizes right now anyway. If I ran a 285 up front, should I get a wider wheel?
No that's perfect. If you go wider then yes.

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If I remember right tires and wheels are open in ASP. fwiw I run 295 A6's on 10" wide wheels up front.
Any pics? Did you do any fender mods to get it to fit?
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What offset are you running?
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Wheels are Volk TE37SL's 18x10 +30 up front and 18x11 +18 in the rear. 295/40-18 A6's on all 4 corners. Only had a little rub up front on the fender liner (I'm at stock ride height). Will probably be going with some 295/30-18's next time as the 295/40's were discontinued by Hoosier.



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Didn't plan on it. At least not until I burn through the 295/40's I have.
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Didn't plan on it. At least not until I burn through the 295/40's I have.
We'll get coilovers and leave it stock height at least.
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