Allen

This...my car came with PZero's...couldn't get them off fast enough.

Ron

Are wheels 8" wide in front and 11 or 12' wide in rear?

Are wheels off a 996 twin turbo?

pp000830

993 tends to eat rear tires so for street use I give up grip and look for tires with a high UTQG number/ price ratio in an all season speed rated tire.

nile13

... and I drive a $50K car and save $300 on tires once every two years. The car doesn't do what it's designed to do, but it's shiny. Makes no sense to me, sorry. I'm not even asking what'll happen when you actually need to brake in an emergency.

NYC993

Check out what chis harris did by putting 4 donuts on c63 amg.
I wonder if less grip would make 993 more fun.

nile13

Less grip makes for much more fun. I tell myself that every weekend morning while taking the first run on cold Hoosiers on cold asphalt. It's really fun if I have a novice passenger on that run. They go: "Yipeee!" and make other assorted noises that I can hear through the helmet above the howling Miata engine hamsters

Mind you, this is a whole 132 rear wheel horsepower on 275 wide race rubber in a controlled environment of an airfield with no curbs or other immovable objects around. Do I want to repeat this experience on the street in a 993? No, not really.

Michel M.

I can recommend Yokohoama Advan AD08R. They are a bit on the expensive side (at least here in EU, not sure about the US pricing) but for me they offer excelent dry and very reasonable wet performance. The treadwear is not too bad either. I actually prefer them to Michelins, but that is just very subjective I guess.

fsa

I just replaced old hard Toyo Proxies on my '97 C4S with Continental Conti Extreme DW's.
They are quieter, grippier, softer (I think) sidewalls), and track really well. They get great reviews in dry and wet- will see about tread life.

pp000830

Tires choices seem to be somewhat of a contentious subject as can be seen from nile13's comment above>
Between my 86' & 96' Carreras have run with Pirelli P Zeros, and several sets of Brigestone RE70 and RE50 and most recently two sets of Achilles ATR Sport 97W BSW. With the Achilles I get two to three years out of the rear tires and three or more out of the fronts and being all season they retain good grip below 40 Degrees F. A set of 4 tires runs about $400. I don't drink the marketing Koolaid that surrounds the major national brands of tires.

cgfen

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please ask a specific question(s)
that will increase your odds of getting useful replies

i would probably never buy Pirellis, but not for any quantifiable reason

i would buy

Hankook V12s
or MPSS if looking for decent daily driver tyres

and would buy

Yoko AD08R
Hankook RS-3
MPSCup2

for more aggressive applications

cgfen

yes, one easy way to do this is to go wider on front and narrower on rear.

cgfen

interesting thought process

race911

205 square like we used to do in the Olden Days on the torsion bar cars made for oh so much fun. Not really. But you damn well figured out how to drive the cars.

Why not trot out the old "leaving the pits and I've got no front grip" video? First lap or so is all that's applicable here.

(And as Nile says above, reserve it for closed courses.)

993c4_Toronto

I put Continental DW's on last season and I have been very happy. They were reasonable but not cheap. I've been to one track day (beginner) and 4-5 Auto cross and they haven't let me down yet.

nile13

Ouch. Seriously Achilles as name for a tire? Especially a cheap tire? Am I the only one seeing the obvious irony?