Yes, the lack of a wilingness to change tires is largely a function of my own laziness and the fact that it can get pretty hot here, which makes things uncomfortable when you're jacking the car up etc. If I were going to go through the tire changing process I'd only do it in order to run full slick tires, such as Hoosier A6s, Pirellis or Yoko A005s etc. - which would mean investing in 2 sets of rims and tires, which I'm a little financially-unable to do just now.
As you have mentioned I tend to run a compromized setup for street and track - the lack of rain here means that I can run semislick tires as a daily tire and, with my camber set at -2.5 up front and -1.3 in the rear I haven't really had any problems with wear considering the semis. Running 265s as you suggest might indee work well with my routine - do you think I'd notice the extra grip between 265s and my current 235s? If so then that might be enough for me for now.
The toe out idea came from a local magazine in which they built an EVO IX with the aim of decerasing lap times by adding handling and not horsepower...in fact it was the same guys who I bought my KWs from...
www.mstorque.com(Project EVO IX). Experienced trackers so not a bad place to start for setup advice, I thought.
I decided to try their setup out for awhile, just curious to hear your comments as I know you've also had your suspension professionally set up and you seem to compete in similar events to me - daily drive + trackdays + autoX.
I was purposely experimenting with running the car very tailhappy for the sake of experience - my whiteline HD rear sway/stock front sway, combined with the toe out all around, combined with 34psi front/33psi rear hot tire pressures, make it turn in and rotate like an animal but at the expense of corner exit stability under hard acceleration. Good/tolerable for Autox, very good on short trackday circuits I find but a little uncomfortable for long, fast, high speed sweepers or for fast road use I find.
I'm always subtly changing my setup, so I think I'll take your advice and try running zero rear toe, or even a little negative rear toe, and see what happens.
I greatly appreciate your feedback, Warrtalon, so thanks.
