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Originally Posted by Methodical4u
I understand tires and a lot of things come into play when talking about this... however, i'm trying to compare on a stock vs stock basis though. We know the Z has HUGE tires on the car and more contact patch typically will mean more grip. The Z has the tire advantage stock, while the STI's or Evo's etc have the advantage of more torque due to turbocharging with A LOT of boost and in the Evos case computer controlled handling.
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Right, but stock classing is based off of keeping stock rims, and shoving on a huge tire--no one does that. The wrx moves up favorably with more tire, which bumps it to decent b stock times. The nismo puts down similar times to a wrx running 265s while it is running 295+.