Yokohama Vs Hankook, need new tires.

How do you drive? - what are your wet / cold weather traction requirements? - how big a factor is noise?  will you be trackingyour car?  Auto-X?  what speed raiting are you considering?  Is ride quality a consideration?  Is "style" important?

Not to be a stinker, but may I recommend that you remove the "top speed" number... it's for your own good... :-)

Edited by YakiMini - July/30/09 at 4:32pm

Well i dont make it many miles as it is anyway. Im thinking about picking up some older wheels 17' and putting my worn out tires so when i need to do long drives/winter time ill put them on.

I also only really use the top speed on the drives between east and west. but yes I will slow it down :) I personally love the look of the first tire, but think maybe the spec 2 would be reasonable?? I am going to find out the firm price on those advans tomorrow. If I can get a good deal i might order those.

wow those are pretty cheap then.... I might have to order the tires from tire rack.

I think i want to stay with 205/45/17 I get some rubbing on the rear when i go over a speed bump a little to quick or hit a big bump in the road.

+38 i believe..... not to sure on the offset. Its just cause there's not much clearance in the back. I think i might try 215/45/17 though. After reading some of the other posts about tire sizes on Nam it seems like I can sneak away with it.



These are the falken azenis rt-615. around $125 a tire so around $550 w/ install. I've heard these things are really stickyyy. I also decided to look for other tires, I don't want to restrict myself to just 3 tires. So i spent about 10 hours looking for tires online. phew what a day :)

hmmm seems interesting. I wonder if the rebate is included in the $121? i'll look around to see if I can find any better prices.

ahh so looking everything up it comes to 540 including shipping - $60 rebate = $480. plus mounting + 40 = $520. hmmmm tempting

I know... good math :)

its 17x7 like i said i really dont know the offset, but ill go see if i can find it.

jbrown23 wrote: ahh so looking everything up it comes to 540 including shipping - $60 rebate = $480. plus mounting + 40 = $520. hmmmm tempting I know... good math :)

Sounds like a good deal. How can you refuse?   

Haha, the joys of modding!

The race header will give you a little more power. I haven't seen back to back dynos to see what the difference is though. Ask Jan. Pricing difference may be significant too.

Shop around for the OCC. You don't want to spend $100 more just for an etched logo on top. Right JohnF?

I'll have to bother Jan about it. street header probably makes more sense for me anyways. I just like the idea of a race header.    

I would like to get the tires orderd and installed at a local shop ( none in mind, but it would be hell to try to take 4 tires to the shop and take my old 4 home) It would be easier to just have them shipped there. Discount tire offers some price match, I might head down there to see if I can bargain with them lol

My experience with Discount is that they are always willing to deal.

I ordered a set of track wheels from Tire Rack and I'm having it sent directly to the shop. I'm going to swap over my RE-01Rs to them and just burn them up this year.

Larry I thought you guys ha a tire rack there on the westside so you did not have to order? I think there is a store in Spokane Jacob

i have rear control arms.... well since my car has gotten broken into twice in the past month and i caught some man looking in it really late last night I decided to get a cheap alarm kit. So as I was driving home down a one way road a toyota corolla decided to go the wrong way.... three lane road and i swerved nearly missing a head on collision but i was sideways and then back the other way trying to correct it.... well I got it under control, but pooped my pants! Long story short, I have no tires because what was remaining decided to go up with the huge smoke trail i left behind. I guess that online defensive driving call i took when i was 15 1/2 sure paid off lololololol

If i was in any other car i would have went head on with this phsyco driver who drove the wrong way.
So looks like new tires are going to get ordered here in a few days when my paycheck arives.

Yeah i have the SPC one and its mammoth.