Keith Guidus

What are you all using on your 1984-1989 3.2 Carreras for tires these days? We have 16" wheels and 205 and 225 tires now.

AG81

Keith,
I was running 205/55/16 front and 225/50/16 rears until recently....... I moved to a 17" wheel.
In the 16" sizes there are abundant choices.
This is a pretty good resource...... Tire Calculator

Bill Verburg

Depends on what you want out of the tires

RE71 are available in those sizes and give outstanding grip but won't last long


Another decent choice is Conti EC Sport or BS RE 11, but there are lots of other good choices too, they differ in small ways from weight to section & tread width

AG81

I am actually running the Bridgestone's on my 17" rims. I love them and do not expect them to last like a Continental, which I am also a fan of.

fastdiablo

My 88 is set up for aggressive street driving and has Elephant Racing suspension so I went for an R compound tire which I absolutely love, and allow for incredible handling. The exact model on my 16" wheels are the Yokohama Advan Neova AD08 R. They pull right up on Tire Rack. They have worn very little over 5000 miles so far. I only log about 3-4K mikes of driving in this car per year so performance over wear is my priority.

myflat6

I am running RE71's on my SC (16" 205/225) - love 'em

Spyerx

BlackBeauty

I'm getting the Michelins too, just picked up an '86

Keith Guidus

Where did you buy them?
We are in Lake Forest,

Spyerx

Bill Verburg

Here are the 205/55 & 225/50 x16 sets that I have in my dB
as you can see, some small differences for the same sizes

Pavegeno928

Same here on my stock 16s. Love Michelins and as above, look great and are the recommended tire from Porsche if that is important to you.

https://www.porsche.com/usa/accessor.../tyreapproval/

Spyerx

yeah the ones I have are "N" spec. Great list and thanks for that link!

I'm of this mindset:
I have my 'period' cars and my 'hot rodded' cars.
For the period cars, I want period mods/tires/suspension/alignment/look.
For my hot rodded cars, anything goes. Like RComp tires on my 964 in very wide widths, and aggressive totally modern feeling chassis...
There is something fun about driving these as they felt (mostly, i'm sure rubber compounds are MUCh better now) back in the day.

Keith Guidus

We are the same way. Wife insisted the radio could only be replaced with Blaupunkt product as well as speakers. Never added whale tail for same reason. Although were look to replace stock muffler with after market one now! Its only taken 35 years for that!

r911

Do you have similar 'period' & 'hotrod' crs that you can compare the feel of similar sized tires on?

The 'vintage' tires lack modern construction/tread patterns but often have modern rubber compounds in them - so I've always wondered how they feel in comparison...