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First line, I'm going to apologise for the fractured nature of this post. Not sure how to explain it clearly, plus I'm stupidly tired.

I need another set of tires for my car.

A guy I know in the local motorsports club works at the Michelin plant (we have 3 in my province) and can get me an employee price on any single set of any model and size of Michelin tire I want for an exceptional price. (i.e. half what I can order them from on the Internet.)
But, they have to be a Michelin product (i.e. Michelin, BFGoodrich or Uniroyal.)

My plan was to get a set if Pilot Sport PS2s to replace my 2 current sets of tires.

I currently have BFG KDW2s for street and Pilot Sport Cups for track use.
(The Sport Cups are now corded, and the KDWs have been aged, and heat cycled to the point where the rubber just isn't very pliable any more. Still decent tread depth however.)

I am now playing with the idea of getting another set of Pilot Sport Cups and just running those all the time.
Anybody run these tires full time? How did they work?
I know they are stock on the M3 CSL in Europe, but they also recommend not really driving in the rain too much either.

I only put about 10,000km per year on my car (stored for the winter months + I travel for work, so my car sits a fair bit.) On really rainy days last year I would usually leave the 8 in the garage and commute with my truck.
Other than street driving, my car will be doing 2 HPDE events this year and maybe another single-day school.

Ironically, the fact that my car will be seing less track use this year is what is making this a tough choice for me. (Rather than just buy 2 sets of tires.) No longer in the budget since I bought an ITA prepared Nissan 240SX to use for open lapping days and some IT racing this year.

So, any thoughts? Running these things full time practical, or should I just shut up, buy the PS2s and run them for the HPDEs?

RL8

With the Sport Clubs you will be replacing tires in no time for street use. Seriously, those tires are more for track. They are more like semi slick. Yes they have extremly good traction (one of the reasons why the CSL is 40 sec faster on the Nurburgring then a regular M3).

For street use I'd go for the Pilot Sport 2. I had them on my other car and I loved them. The tread wear is slightly better then the S-03s I've had, and a tad lighter, and a bit more expensive.

Marc_GS

I second the recommendation of the PS2. The PS cups tires are really track tires, whereas the PS2s are street tires that are still quite good on the track. They will last much longer and stick way more than you should be using on the street.

dannobre

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You could send me a set of Cups to Vancouver 275-35-18

Redshift

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Guys, thanks for the recommendations.
You pretty much affirmed what I was already 80% of the way to deciding.

I was just about to tell the guy to confirm the order for the PS2s, but then it popped into my head how much fun I'd had running my Sport Cups on the street (mess with some people's heads on an on-ramp) and this wacky idea popped into my head.
I only put 10,000km on my car last summer, and 3000 of that was a road-trip to do an HPDE at Mont Tremblant, so I thought, "What the heck!?"

I'll stop being dumb now and just go for the PS2s.

Thanks!