wheels "N" Tires

[s-man]

Need some helpfull advice regarding new wheel/tire combinations for my 86 951.

I have a stock 86 951 with the factory phone dials and wish to replace the rubber at minimum or the combination of wheels and tires.

I rarely drive this car, it is an excellent copy with a mere 79 k miles. The tires are shot from age, they are the Mich. XGT's , 215-55-16 and 225-50-16's.

I am heading to the track and need to decide what to do. I am an experienced driver and can push this sort of car to it's limit.

I don't want to spend excess money on this one or three day a year lapping car, I have many others to choose from, this time the coming event will be this one.

If I can get away with just rubber, keeping the 16's to give me an excellent handling car with the 16's, still the while pushing the car to the limit without compromise , and we all know the virtues of the 951,then that's the way I would rather go.

I know of some nice rubber that I can put on in these or near these sizes and oh ya, that bring me to another question, what would a PLUS size for this car be without having any clearance problems???

The Firestone SZ50 or SZ50ep seem like a nice selection, I ran the same track in an E36 M-3 and had a blast, also I see the Bridgestone re750 or S03's as other choices...

Any help would be appreciate....

Thanks

[nize]

every year new tires come out that are stickier than last year's. this year the stickiest dry-pavement tires are supposed to be the kumho ecsta MX;
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp?tireMake=Kumho&tireModel=Ecsta+MX

you can get them in 225/50-16 for your car. the problem is they're so popular they're usually backordered at least a month.