Help me pick a tire
 

hey guys i was looking at tires for the car today, and i had almost purchased a set of dunlop dz101 until i read the reviews. horrible wet tractions. so here i am again. i need something with around a 300 treadware, that i can autocross and abuse without to much trouble. starspecs are 200 treadware so they are not going to last long enough for me.
PS: have to be decent for dd duty

size?

205/50/15

I'd say Kumho SPT (or whatever they call it now), but they don't make it in that size apparently.

What you're looking for is an ultra-high performance summer tire....

Tire rack-

Yokohama S.drive - 94/each
BFG g-force sport - 98/each

the BFGs are on closeout....idk what normal price normally is, but that's probably a good deal. Probably a new product line coming out or something. I got a set of bridgestone RE01Rs for like half off on closeout there right before the RE11s came out.

either of those should fit the bill. i assume you dont need/want all seasons?

only thing that sucks is Kumho XS is only a little bit more than those.... but tread life is 180 vs 300/340. just gotta decide/figure out if it's worth the trade off for you.

i autocross the car couple times a month, and its a nice weather daily 60-90miles a day. and with gas going up my dad might start driving it to work which is 100-150 miles a day. so 300 is about as low as i want to go.

i did drive a car with star specs on it and i like the characteristics of that tire but at 200 treadware i would ware them out pretty quick.

well, Tadd, let me let you in on a little secret. There is no standard way of measuring treadwear. One manufacturer's 200 could be anothers 250, or 150 (arbitrary numbers, you can read about treadwear rating differences on google/tire rack).

I found that the star specs have pretty good life. Considering I put them through 15 track days at about 2hours each day, and still got about 12k miles out of them, I think a monthly autocross or two should allow you to get some pretty good life.

Otherwise, its going to be really hard to find a tire that is >200 treadwear and is actually "good" in the autocross environment.

Choose wisely!

NOOOOOO!! The yokohama s drives were sooo bad. I ran them for an autox season and hated them!

Never again!