Good summer/race tires

I'm set on this size because I'm going to go with a way bigger rear wheel next summer. Probably 11 or 11.5". Probably will have to step up to 300's anyhow when I do that. Stretched is cool, but more contact is better.

Going to spend this winter coming up with a solution for rear camber fix like the E36 guys do.

Think im going to go with Nitto NT05's 275/40/17…Found cheapest at $625 shipped. Not bad at all. I have some time though, so if anyone comes across a sweet deal let me know.

I run the Dunlop DZ101 in 265/35R18. Grips really well. The DZ101 is one of Dunlops top line tires below the Star Spec range.

If anyone has any hookups with a tire company and wants to help a brother out, I'm looking for the nittos nt05 275/40/17…found at performancetread.com for $590 but shipping is a killer at $75. Still the best deal I found other than tirebuy.com, but since they have a warehouse in state they have to charge me out the ass for tax & fee's.

That may be the best you're gonna get. DTD is $168 each shipped, or $672 for 4. http://www.discounttiredirect.com/di…%2FPerformance

Are you putting 275s on all 4 corners?

I find unless you have a tire sponsor, you arent really going to get the hook up anyplace. Best most can do is a few bucks off a tire.

I order all my tires from DTD. Most of the time they are the cheapest or damn close to it.

Back in october I got a set of Hankook Ventus V12's from DTD. They had a $100 back on 4 tires and then I combo'd that with a $80 manufacturer rebate from hankook. It was sweet.

Youre not the only one ~235 for a set of 4 tires is hard to beat

performancetread sells them for $590 for all 4 275's…shipping is $75 though. kill shipping and I will order them today haha

275s are no joke to fit in the fronts with coils. Mike was able to do so but remember he had much more adjustablility than you. 255/40 would be much easier and good on 9 wide

Right now they are running a 80 hankook rebate and a $50 prepaid visa card with a purchase of 4 tires. I need new tires for the subaru, so I might do this. I'm going to find if you can combine the two, then I'll pull the trigger. Do you guys buy their extended warranty for each tire? Probably cheaper and less hassle to just buy another tire @ $96 if anything happens anyhow. I will only be using them for a few months then back to winter tires, which I need to replace the front two. Currently the metal wires are exposed…not good!

As for the Z, 255's might work for now. Unfortunately that means no rotating (unmount and rebalance I suppose). Shit starts getting expensive when getting into performance tires!

Seems I can get the Nittos & V12's for around $1,050 with no warranty on them and $180 in prepaid cards, so $870 total for 2 sets of good tires for both cars. I have a feeling I should get the warranty on the Nittos because they will last me 3 years on the Z considering I don't drive it much.

Yup it should stack.

The $50 is from DTD while the $80 is from Hankook.

Dopeeee…did you guys do the warranty for replacement? I don't care about the V12s, just the nittos considering they won't last very long. Although, people say about 7-8 track events and about 10k miles on street/some autox and maybe 1 or 2 track. I doubt my Z hits 3000 miles a year…it will probably hit 2k this summer only because I need 1k miles to break everything in.

If you went with the 9" and 10" stagger I would do 255/40 fronts and 275/40 in the rear. I never rotate the tires on my Z with the 17/18 stagger, thats just how it is. If you camber wear then you may need to flip and rebalanced, but such is life.

Like frost said you can stack rebates. I have never bought the warranty replacement. I have never had any issues with any tires; Z, truck, old DD ect… been purchasing tires from DTD for a long time. I am sure there is always that rare chance, but replacing a tire is that big of a deal. And im pretty sure track will void any warranty that covers.

I wish I could get tires up here for even $150… even dz101's are 205+tax installed, go up from there :