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Looking for input for summer/performance tires for the 97 SSEi. I garage it in the winter so all seasons are kinda pointless. Its for summer driving and maybe the 1 or 2 times I plan to take it to autocross for the year (contingent on me completing other mods first, dont want to be barely better than a Mazda 3!)

I found 2 tires that match the category I was looking at, dont know if anyone else ran these and can speak for them? The wear rating kinda scares me but the price seems to match up:

Pirelli Cinturato P7:
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp ... toModClar=

Sumitomo HTR Z II:
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp ... toModClar=

Doing my own research on the forums, it seems there is an answer for every member of the forum here. But I did count 2 endorsements for the BFGoodrich g-force sport comp-2, but frustratingly I cannot find it for my tire size on Tire Rack. Might need help on that.

We talked via Facebook about this, but for forum reference I've been running the BFGoodrich g-Force Sport COMP-2 in 255/40r19 and I've been extremely pleased with performance. With many autocross events, weekly oval time attacks in the summer, a few road course time attacks plus 15k miles so far of daily driving duty, I expect to get another 10-15k out of them. I would be replacing them about now if the car hadn't been parked since May with trans issues. But I shouldn't have an issue with these lasting me most of next season.

I'd get these again, but I'm planning to get dedicated race wheels and DOT slicks once these are worn out and go back to all seasons for daily driving.



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As for tire sizing, I don't know if you're planning to use stock wheels or what, but you can play with tire sizes with this calculator (this gives you a visual too) if you're willing to go with wider tread or different size wheel. https://www.tacomaworld.com/tirecalc?ti ... -235-55r17

Honestly, you need to move up to a 17" or 18" wheel if you're hoping to get any performance whatsoever out of a tire. You just have too *dang* much sidewall on those 16's.

New wheels aren't in the budget unless I can land GXP wheels.