My new to me CRX needs new shoes. It still has the stock 13" steelies with craptastic tires. I want to auto cross this thing next season and want a performance tire. It currently has 175/70-13 noisy crap on it. What tire and wheel combo can the brain trust here reccomend?
The particulars are:
1990 CRX DX completly stock except the suspension, even the exhaust is stock. 169k miles.
The car is lowered on Konis (I dont know how much, I bought it lowered) and has no clearence issues with the current tires so I would like to keep close to the same width and diameter.
I expect my learning curve will be quite steep so ultra soft compounds arent nessesary-yet 
It is my daily driver and I drive 65 miles to/from work 5 days a week so I want a tire that will last a little while and not too loud. I hate loud tires.
I dont want to invest in a seperate wheel/tire combo for street and auto cross.
I would like to keep the price down as low as reasonably possible.
I can mount and balance my own tires so ordering online from two seperate places isnt an issue if the price is right.
Javelin
SuperDork
10/6/10 9:41 p.m.
I drive on 205/50/15 Falken Azenis year-round in the Pacific Northwest 
They don't last too long though (no ST-class autocross tire will). The Falken Ziex 912 won GRM's last cheap tire test though and is a superb performer all around. I would run 14's on an Enkei (the new split-5 spoke, not the overplayed PRF01).
I put Ziex 912's on my wires Altima. So far I like them. I'm not sure I want to put 14's on it only to have trouble finding tires in future, if I have to buy wheels anyway I might as well get 15"s.
Powar
Dork
10/7/10 8:03 a.m.
I'll third the love for Ziex 912s. They're an all-around decent performer at a very attractive price. You won't win any autocross events on them, but like you said, they won't be your limiting factor yet anyway.
Javelin
SuperDork
10/7/10 8:05 a.m.
There's more available now for 14's then there was last year, it's kind of nice. 205/50/15 will always be available though.
on my '91 Si I'm running 205-50-15's re11's to a-x... for the track it's 225-35-13's r888's
next yr a-x may be 225-45-15 toyo r1r's
I run shaved 205/50-15 R888's on 15x7" Drag DR21's.
I wouldn't run them daily... I would expect something like an Azenis 615K would be alright daily.
