For those of you that have 450-550whp, Im curious to what kind of tires you are running? Dimensions? Im not so sure id want to drive around on slicks, but this wouldnt be my daily driver anyways. What would you reccomend? Ill be using a b18c transmission with a quaife lsd, motor mounts and eventually traction bars. Thanks

 

motomatrix has 500whp+setup and use 245-50 16 or something like that whit great result he said!
just do a search on his name

 

255/50/16

I will be running 255/55/15 on about 15 psi...*edit* 15psi in the tires is what i meant...


[Modified by Tinker219, 10:05 AM 3/23/2003]

 

It depends on the size of your rims, If you have 16" like me they discontinued all the drag radials for that size, and you'll want to kill them. So now I have azenis (no complaints yet) although I would have loved to have some drag radials.

If you have 15" then you have many choices, BFG seem to be popular among the honda-tech'ers and the Nitto's are good as well. The Nitto's will last a little longer compared to the BFG's due to the harder compound, but won't grip AS well, but they still hold.

 

Yea im looking for something stickier...tire ware isnt an issue for me, i just want to make sure i stay on the road.

 

come on guys...give me some 411

 

i have 15in rims (Si's) when i run on the street at around 325whp. When i had the flaken ziex's or some **** like that 1st and 2nd would break lose when it hit full boost (14psi) Now i have BFG drag radials up front, 1st will still spin but now second grips good. Anything over 450whp will rip any street tire in 1st and 2nd. That much power on street tires is only good for the highway.

 

BFG drag radials work really good up front jsut get set last about 4k miles but work really well

 

225/50-15 BFG's DR's should grip just as well as 245 street tires.

 

195/55/15
aahahhaa
i would say at least 225

 

im glad im seeing more tire posts on H-T FI.

ive always run bfg drag radials daily, and always will... thats until something better comes out of course. an this is only at 275whp too i can't imagine what problems the high hp guys have

 

Do you use 205's or 225's?

I used the 205's first, but I'm going with 225's next time around.

 

same here, ran through a couple sets of 205's, they worked great, but now that i got the gsr tranny im goin w/ the larger tire. the 225's would have made the LS gearing even worse.

 

lol, yep.

 

How are you guys r unning such wide tires? I am wondering what size to get for my 6th gen hatch...I was thinking 215's is the widest I could go if the car is lowered a little....

 

225's will fit.

They will rub around turns on the inside of wheel well.

But that's no big deal

 

Fender flares anyone??

 

 

lmao, but imo some sweet fender flares would own on a civic or integra!

 

Is that if you turn to the bumpstops? If so, I think I will be getting 225's.

 

Yes, when you make very sharp turns.

 

Going to try out the new BFG gforce drag radials in a 225 whenever they get come off the backorder list. I'm using nitto 555r drag radials right now and still rip them loose in 1-3 with only 277whp.

 

i've got an eh2 and i'm getting ready to go big on turbo with it....and i'm gonan need some wide tires too.

those 245's sound good...but how could you possibly fit them with out flares?
large spacers and let them jut out some?????

 

whats the widest you can go on the 94-95 GSR wheels(5 spoke whatevers)? how much do the DRs run?

 

The general rule of thump is at least 80-85% of the tire must have wheel under it.
Convert wheel width to millimeters and then divide by the tire width.