Track Tires and Rims - Looking for Advice
06-02-2016, 09:47 PM
#17
Slightly off topic but also consider what compromise you want to make on your alignment. You say the car is stock, so you will be eating the outside of the tires pretty quickly. A whole other topic for another time, do a search on lower control arms LCAs.
06-03-2016, 02:18 AM
#18
Yes, agree with Verboden. I got a great deal on my CCWs and Nittos and then realized I had to invest a lot more in LCAs in order to dial in the camber required to run those tires...not that I have a problem with that 
06-03-2016, 07:18 PM
#19
Race Director
Verboden, is correct...when you run a track tire you really need to get at the minimum front adjustable lower control arms.
For most tracks and a reasonable fast driver into the solo group you will need around -2.5 degrees negative camber for the front. The rear can achieve -2 camber no problem with stock parts.
Even with a street tire like the Yokohama AD08R that I found to be one of the best street/autocross tires and you can track you need around the same alignment. If you go further into something like Hooser R6 tires you will need at least -3 front a -2.5 rear. Then you will start to need other suspension parts to remove all the rubber bushing bits to take advantage of R6's....even Nitto's NT01 benefit something like this and bigger 350mm front rotors with Porsche GT3 6 pot calipers....oh it just never ends! LOL
For most tracks and a reasonable fast driver into the solo group you will need around -2.5 degrees negative camber for the front. The rear can achieve -2 camber no problem with stock parts.
Even with a street tire like the Yokohama AD08R that I found to be one of the best street/autocross tires and you can track you need around the same alignment. If you go further into something like Hooser R6 tires you will need at least -3 front a -2.5 rear. Then you will start to need other suspension parts to remove all the rubber bushing bits to take advantage of R6's....even Nitto's NT01 benefit something like this and bigger 350mm front rotors with Porsche GT3 6 pot calipers....oh it just never ends! LOL
06-03-2016, 10:25 PM
#21
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If you are driving to the track, or anywhere else, with the rims, then I would say yes. At the very least TPMS will alert you to a tire that's going flat. It happened to me once on the highway and I would not have known without TPMS.
06-04-2016, 12:17 PM
#22
Race Director
TPMS on my 2007 &2009 didn't work that great so I ran no TPMS at the track on this cars