Erm... okay. Well, can ANYONE confirm these will fit without rubbing?

Okay... well, here's the longer version of my imbecilic attempts to get cheap stickier rubber with the potential for better performance than the fucking Potenzas.

The BFG's, it turns out are NOT available in the sizes I wanted, which I found out after placing my order.

So that led me to reconsider the (pricey, but well liked) Advans... but, this required some experimenting with size and fitment.

After a good deal of playing with fitment calculators, it seemed they would fit. I bit the bullet, placed the order (more than I wanted to spend) and then suddenly realized the fucking sidewall is too short, and overall diameter for the R's would end up being shorter than the F's.

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH :icon14::icon14::icon14:

So, in the end: I am just getting the Potenza RE-11's, which, to be fair are awesome tires, and not too expensive. At least I know what I am getting.

So, could be worse... although I could have just gone with them from the start... nothing ventured, nothing gained, but this venture led me to a big faceplant :shakes head:

Sigh :facepalm:

Well, thanks again to everyone for their input, which was indeed helpful (and in the end, I wound up going with the most preferred option...)

So, winner by TKO: Potenza RE-11's.

Unless i find out they are out of stock too. Then I'm back to square one :rofl2:

I don't recall why the PSS's didn't make my short list... like the Advan's I had seriously considered them at one time.

I'm so burnt out on tire research... I'll have another look at those before I commit to the Potenzas.

I still need to ship back the Advans... :facepalm:

EDIT: Ah ha -- they are not "Extreme Performance Summer Tires"... anything over a 220 UTQG I usually find to be not so sticky.

PSS is a great tire for the sports car owner who does plenty of daily driving and maaaybe some infrequent track days. These extreme summer tires can pull double duty much better from what I've seen.

They'll fit. 10.5 +12 with 305s fit with almost no camber at all. You're setup will be effectively 10 +5, which is 1mm less outer clearance than my setup.

and I didnt see the last page. Nevermind :)

Nevertheless, thank you for the helpful reply :tiphat:

If the sidewall were just a bit taller, I would go for it -- I got so wrapped up in trying to figure out if they would even fit, and how far off it would be to 285/35, I neglected to consider the change in diameter between F and R :facepalm:

I'll attempt to experiment again on the next round of tires -- maybe a wider range of good sticky tires will be available.

i placed an order for the pss.. got them for 1,133. hopefully they'll be good o.0

jordo-so you came to your senses finally and chose the RE11's? those are good tires and they look very good too, sidewall and tread. it's amazingly comfy for an extreme perf tire too.

running RE11's almost feels like cheating cause of how communicative they are at the limit of adhesion. like taking a block of wood over #400 sand paper. confidence inspiring controlled hold while rotating the car with your throttle.