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My daily driver is a 2002 Camaro vert that I picked up back in February out of Virginia. It has a decent set of Goodyear Eagle GT's that show some uneven wear from bad alignment, but have more than a few thousand miles left on them. The current tires are 235/55-16 on the original factory chromed aluminum wheels.
My biggest problem with these tires is how bad they are in the wet. They don't feel like they have much grip at all in the rain, and I worry about hydroplaning on the freeway. I'm wondering if it's the poor wear pattern on these particular tires and maybe their age, because I used to drive a 1985 IROC-Z year-round in Michigan on the Goodyear Eagle VR Gatorbacks, and never had wet traction problems. (Snow, however, was a b****!)
Costco only stocks a BFGoodrich Traction T/A in my size, and Tire Rack doesn't have all that much more. Although the T/A seems like a decent tire, it doesn't give me a warm 'n fuzzy feeling. I'm used to putting the biggest stock tire I can on my cars, and I understand that my wheels are the same size as the Z28 wheels. If I look at 245/50-16 tires at Tire Rack, I get a lot more choices, including the highly-rated Michelin Pilot Sport A/S Plus and General Altimax HP.
What do you guys think? For a V6 Woodward cruiser that spends most of its time carting me to and from work (11 miles one way) with occasional weekend freeway trips, should I stick with the base rubber, or should I treat the car to Z28 size meats? Would the bigger, more expensive tires give me the wet 'n snow traction I want, or would the factory tire serve just as well?
My biggest problem with these tires is how bad they are in the wet. They don't feel like they have much grip at all in the rain, and I worry about hydroplaning on the freeway. I'm wondering if it's the poor wear pattern on these particular tires and maybe their age, because I used to drive a 1985 IROC-Z year-round in Michigan on the Goodyear Eagle VR Gatorbacks, and never had wet traction problems. (Snow, however, was a b****!)
Costco only stocks a BFGoodrich Traction T/A in my size, and Tire Rack doesn't have all that much more. Although the T/A seems like a decent tire, it doesn't give me a warm 'n fuzzy feeling. I'm used to putting the biggest stock tire I can on my cars, and I understand that my wheels are the same size as the Z28 wheels. If I look at 245/50-16 tires at Tire Rack, I get a lot more choices, including the highly-rated Michelin Pilot Sport A/S Plus and General Altimax HP.
What do you guys think? For a V6 Woodward cruiser that spends most of its time carting me to and from work (11 miles one way) with occasional weekend freeway trips, should I stick with the base rubber, or should I treat the car to Z28 size meats? Would the bigger, more expensive tires give me the wet 'n snow traction I want, or would the factory tire serve just as well?
357ci LT1, cammed, stalled, and driven. 
they were definately narrow. They were incredible. i never even got close to stuck with 100 lbs of salt in the ttop well. I would sell them to you but some jerk stole them from our barn one day. They only had one frickin winter on them (driven sparingly that winter as well)
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