245/45-18 are the closest to the stock tires (percentage-wise) so, I might go with them, I don't know...SOMETHING bigger...

Make sure you check to see which 18" meets up as close to possible with the overall diameter of the stock tires. You don't want to alter things like tire height and width too much, even though it may look good. You can mess up alignment angles, wheel bearing stress, and throw off your speedometer, not to mention upset the overall handling and drivability of the car.

I wouldn't worry about that stuff too much. The only things I'd be concerned about is loosing mileage and going slower with the bigger, heavier meats. If I could buy an 18 inch tire/wheel combo that's the same weight or lighter, I'd have bought them already. Every pound you remove from the unsprung weight is the equivalent of removing 10 pounds of sprung weight. That means every ten pounds would reduce your qtr mile by 1 tenth sec.
Jack
BTW, The reverse also applies. For every ten pounds you ad to the unsprung weight, you would ad a tenth to your time. Something to think about before buying those wheels.

I haven't done a lot of reading on this, but I was under the impression that in order to improve you 1/4 mile time by a tenth (using the removal of weight method), you had to remove approximately 100 lbs. I'm thinking that it would be way to easy to drop your times by only removing 10 lbs at a time. That would mean I could drop my time by about a half a second (a life time in the 1/4 mile) by only removing my spare tire and tool box.

Comments?

Marc

I also heard somewhere that it was 100lbs. Might have been on ZZP or Intense's websites.

100 Pounds sounds about right.

What does everyone like when it comes to very good traction street racing tires?

Yeah..concerning the tire issue, Ive found that my customers are well pleased with most of the Touring T/A's..Im a tire tech at Sams Club here in Macon, so Im familiar with all of the product lines we carry in the store. I run the BFG G-Force T/A 225-55-R16s on my GTP and have been very pleased with those as well. Jvojr, if youre looking for something comparable to the Touring T/A in the future, consider the new Traction T/A we just started carrying in the stores..Its available in H or V speed ratings and carries a 60k wty...Cant beat that anywhere you go!! If you have any questions just let me know..

I personally was looking at the Traction T/A. Hey I have to see if they come with the raised white letters. Gotta have the lettering.

Are the traction t/a's good for street racing traction wise?

Well..most of our customers buy them just for street use..but either way..if you get the H-Rated or V-Rated tire, youre getting a good deal. Specs on them are Treadwear: 400 Traction: AA Temp: A..This tire is the best in both the traction and temp. categories and to answer your question terapinn..I would recommend these to you..theyll give you that aggressive street racing traction youre looking for, good wet-weather traction, as well as excellent all-season driving performance. As of right now HercMan, theyre not offered in raised letter; only raised black letter..

gotta have the lettering!!??.. what the hell for!!
no body gonna be able to see the lettering when your up in the air with big ol black nose proppelin spinnin hammerin down
lookin like you drive with hair on fire type a gtp v-hickle.... man i wanna see if that sum a bitch fits in my garageeee

p.s. hercman... i bet the hud works real, real good on that GTP

You guys like the big black nose do ya? I'll have to get a pic of the new paint job we have. Oh and by the way the HUD in the GTP is far superior to the one we have in the Plane. LOL we dont have a hud in our planes. And yep I saw they dont offer the Traction TAs in raised white letters Time to break out the old white paint now theres a cosmetic mod In my search for tires I found that Dayton makes a performance tire called Daytona now that would fit with my Pace car only thing is I will never buy another set of tires from Dayton. 2 years ago I bought four new All Terrain Daytons for my truck and 15k later the side walls are all cracked to hell I have to buy new tires before I get a blow out. The tire shop said it was because I used tire shine on em. Bullshit I've never had problems with the stuff for the last 15 years.

LOL!!! WHATEVER!!!..I use tire gel on my tires every week..apply it at least twice a week!! It never cracked up my sidewalls..thats the funniest thing Ive ever heard about tires Herc and Ive been doing this for about 5 years now..wonder what those guys were smokin'?..hope it quits raining so I can down