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Old 07-23-2008, 11:56 PM
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Question Tire recomendations for 335/30/18's

I am finally getting ready to purchase some rubber for my Trans Am project that has been going on for years now, but could use some advice.

I have mini-tubbed the rears and have a 18x12 rim so I need a 335 sized tire for it, but now that I have started looking, it seems that there are less choices out there than I thought. What brand and model of tire have you guys that run these been using and what do you recommend? These will be the street tires for the car, I have a set of slicks I will use at the strip, so I don't need a drag radial, but that's most of what I have found. It even seems that Michelin stopped making the pilot sport in this size?

Anyway, thanks for any help.
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Old 07-24-2008, 08:29 AM
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Tirerack has a nice search tool for this kind of thing:
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/Compar...14&RunFlat=All

Looks like
Michellin Pilot Sport 2s
Pirelli PZero
Pirelli PZero Rossa
Pirelli PZero Corsa System
BFGoodrich KDW2
BFGoodrich R1
Hooser A6
Kumho V700
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Old 07-24-2008, 08:48 AM
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The BF Goddrich TA KDW2 is the tire of choice for price and performance around these parts. Then again, it is hard to beat the ride of a Michelin PS or PS2. I was pretty impressed with the way the PS2s worked on EmptyNest on the autocross coarse in Columbus. DSE and Air Ride love the KDW2s, and they are surely more experianced in that arena then us. The KDW2s are a lot less money also, which make burnouts more affordable!
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Old 07-28-2008, 07:41 PM
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I put a set of Kumho ECSTA V70A tires on the back of my Viper that size and they are GREAT! Not a good tire to drive on every day as they are very soft and sticky and would likely wear out quickly. However, for a fun car driven occasionally, they stick like glue. I dropped .2 sec in the 1/4 mile swaping from some 8 yr old Pilots to these. How much of that is due to it just being a new rather than 8 yr old tire, I am not exactly sure. I can say that I had the Pilots when the car was only 3 yrs old with less than 8k on it and they still never stuck like these.
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