Street Tire recommendations for Rallycross

Jeff Eng · **Posted:** Tue Jan 27, 2015 2:30 pm

As the title states, i'm looking for recommendations. The plan is to stay in street tire class and tires will be used on stock 16"x7" wheels

Thanks,
Jeff

Steven Carter · **Posted:** Tue Jan 27, 2015 2:38 pm

Interested in this as well. Now that the WRX is 6 years old, the newness has clearly worn off and if the schedule allows I'd like to try some RallyX. I have Conti DWS right now, which if they are good for rain and snow might be pretty good for dirt/sand?

Brett_Murphy · **Joined:** Thu Jan 12, 2012 2:02 pm **Posts:** 355

Goodrich Traction T/A

I ran on Cooper Zeon RS3s, which wore out very quickly. Don't use those.

A big thread here:
http://www.dirtyimpreza.com/forums/show ... 9d41f1e6f8

jeremy gast · **Posted:** Wed Jan 28, 2015 4:56 pm

I used dunlop SP60 on my Forester and the Outback.

Vincent Keene · **Posted:** Wed Jan 28, 2015 5:17 pm

jeremy gast wrote:

I used dunlop SP60 on my Forester and the Outback.

We ran these on the General Lei also, but I think they were discontinued?

Charlie Guthrie · **Joined:** Thu Aug 28, 2003 8:14 pm **Posts:** 832

We ran quite well on the Dunlop SP60s, but VK is correct that they were discontinued.
I shopped around for cheap tires for our Golf (FLOG) and found PepBoys carried Fusion tires that had a very open tread pattern. They are cheap and the sidewalls aren't very stiff, but the straight line traction is OK, and did I mention that they're cheap?
Another open tread tire is from Walmart, but the Internet reviews indicate that there are sidewall failure issues.
Charlie G

pitchwoolfolk · **Joined:** Sat Apr 23, 2005 10:40 pm **Posts:** 27

I have two older tires (Falken ZX512) and two newer tires (Goodrich Traction TA) on the VW Super Beetle. They gripped the clay at Fayetteville enough to oil starve the motor in the banked sweeper. When the Falkens wear out I plan to get more Traction TA's.

Pete Guthrie · **Posted:** Fri Jan 30, 2015 10:20 am

Continental tire contact ecos ,are on my wrx.in teh snow in boone,the tires were a treat.Now that my tires are balanced properly....IT rides really nice.relatively cheap,and awesome in snow and ice on boone.

Charles Lankford · **Posted:** Sun Feb 01, 2015 2:10 pm

Jeff,
I'm the last guy that you want advice from unless it a recommendation to move to the non-street tire class. :wink:

Jeff Eng · **Posted:** Tue Feb 03, 2015 1:46 pm

Charles Lankford wrote:

Jeff,
I'm the last guy that you want advice from unless it a recommendation to move to the non-street tire class. :wink:

LOL, buy me some rally tires and I'll happily switch to another class, but for now street tires will do.

Scott Bradford · **Posted:** Sun Mar 22, 2015 10:24 pm

kumho Ecsta 4X....at about 40PSI all around. surprisingly grippy and durable in anything but the real slop and make a fine all season for street use.

next time around i'd be interested to try the traction T/As or SP60's if i can find em.

Jeff Eng · **Posted:** Mon May 11, 2015 12:23 pm

I saw someone selling these as street legal for thscc rx. is that true?

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Charlie Guthrie · **Joined:** Thu Aug 28, 2003 8:14 pm **Posts:** 832

Just looking at those I would guess that you could get more than 4 quarters in those grooves between tread blocks. Based on that I would say they would put you into Rally Tire class.
One observation on winter tires is that they tend to use softer compounds and all of those small sipes that are great in snow significantly weaken the tread when running on gravel. Our El Cheapo PepBoys tires had much fewer of those sipes but they are still wearing rapidly as those tiny bits of rubber between sipes gets chewed off. Aggressive tread patterns do help, but soft treads with weak tread blocks may not be rallycross friendly. You probably want a M+S tire that is only so-so in the snow and really great in the mud. I found that the small sipes that are used to pack snow into the tread work really with snow-to-snow traction, but fill with slippery mud at the first opportunity and just seem to get slicker.
Keep in mind that we don't often race in "mud" as our venues prefer that we not chew up the roads when they are really soft and easily rutted. Tires should be good in soft dirt and gravel.

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