48 hour Camaro Falken tire sizes

[randy]

this is on the ridetech car


too stretched for my liking. A 11.5 would look alot better and still allow you to go to a 335/30/18. Trust me im in the tire business and i spent countless hours looking at the perfect tire angle on the correct size rim

[SSE0417]

I guess from my stand point im just looking for the best look, There is no place to autocross in my area so mostly powertours, and cruises are all I get to participate in. I do think randy has a piont about using the 11.5 wheel, It will allow you to run either size tire.

[carbuff]

I ordered a set of the Falken's this morning for my project (275 and 315). Interestingly, the guy I ordered from said that they only had 4 of the 315's in their warehouse, and he didn't have any more on order. Given that they auto-restock them, he suggested that perhaps Falken was out of stock at the moment (a guess, but it makes sense).

So while I could have gone with a slightly wider tire, I think these are going to be a good fit for my project to get it on the road and track.

[randy]

why are some people picking the falkens over a michelin ps2?

[carbuff]

Speaking for myself, there were a few reasons...

• The Falken is a relatively new tire design vs. the PS2 which has been around for a while. The Falken appears to be designed closer to a track tread pattern than the PS2 also.
• Cost. The Falkens are a good bit less expensive
• People that are capable of pushing these tires much harder than I can seem to like them
• Having had a set of PS2's on a car before (C6 Vette), after about 1/2 of the life of the tires, they were hard and had little to no traction.

This will be my first try with Falkens. If I don't like them, I'll look for something else. I'm more likely to go towards a set of Toyo R888's than the PS2 though for my driving plans...

[randy]

in my case i was able to get the ps2 20% under cost so i went with them. The r888 are track tires and i wanted something for the street as well as autocrossing