Re: Which brand of street tires are you running on
 

Paul
"... pouring water out of a boot"???
More like a fire hose!!!! :)
D

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Yeah, buddy!! Or, "like a cow pissin' on a flat rock!" LOL!

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The Toyo RA-1 were a great wet or dry tire. The only problem is Toyo changed the design to a R888 which is a better dry tire than wet tire.
The Nitto NT555 and NT555R are good dry tires and so so wet tires
The NT05 are great wet tires, they suck when they get hot.
The Michelin are good dry and wet tires but are extremely soft. So, Say goodbye to a tire and wheel if you ever hit anything in the road.
Goodyear are great if you want to change your tires every four years. The rubber gets hard and they are junk at that point.

Jep, did the smartest thing that I ever saw. When I ordered his tires he bought Nitto NT555R for the front and the back. His though process was the tires would be hard before he needed to changed them. If he got caught in the rain he would have to drive slow anyway because the back had 555R on it.

So to answer you question I have Toyo RA-1 ready for the LPE when she is done, Michelin SS on the Callaway Aerobody, Nitto NT05 on the Ruby, Michelin SS Run Flat ready for the Shinoda, Goodyear Supercar F1 EMT on the 95, 98 pace car, Michelin SS RF on the 03 pace car and BF Goodrich TA on the 98.
So, to really answer your question is I buy what is on sale as the tires will be hard well before they are worn.

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8cam, JMHO :o I'll bet if you look up the temps for where you were that day you may find the answer for the behavior of your 555's.....maybe they are as temp sensitive as the D3's.

I also have to agree with Robert's ( :hello: Robert! ) assessment of the D3's about the age factor. The most I ever got out of my D3's was 4.5 yrs & 32K miles before they were worn physically & getting rather hard to the finger nail test. LOL Oh, the only other pro for the D3's I forgot to mention....when you can smell them from your seat, they are ready to give max grip. It's hard to over heat them in most normal enthusiastic street work on the twisties.

:cheers:
Tom

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I just put on a set of Toyo R888's. They're quite sticky in the dry, they hang right in there on the on-ramps, but I haven't been in the rain with them yet.
As you can see, they look great.
They may have saved my *** as I was cruising up US-1 yesterday, near the bridge over the Port of West Palm Beach. A (99'?) Firebird was playing with me and tailgating. When I reached the steep part of the bridge I nailed in in second, it hooked and felt great.
But just as I reached the top of the overpass, at speed, there was a large roll of rug, as big as a refrigerator in my lane. I flicked it left near the guard rail and squeezed by. The Firebird wasn't so lucky, he freaked and spun a 180 into the other lane slamming into the right retaining wall of the bridge.
I turned around and came back to check on him. He was already out of the car and on the phone. The wife and a three year old kid were in the front seat. "We're ok, they yelled" Wheeew! Thank you Toyos! I don't like doing donuts 150ft. over the channel :eek:

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Bob, it sounds like the tires worked well and you were a good guy to go back and check on the Firebird guy. You get a Scout's Merit Badge.:saluting: --Bob

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I just picked up a set of Michelin SuperSport 285-18F/345-19R. The Nitto Invos
were getting a bit slippery and the rears are very close to the wear bar.

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Moron in the Firebird!
Screwing around like that with the wife and kid in the car...
:censored:

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Dom,
Please give us a full after action report.

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Phil,

Will do. The winter project is shaping up to focus on the 4 corners. Along w the tires, I'll be installing the DRM brackets. Thinking about the V2V chassis braces, and investigating 2 piece rotors at least in front to reduce unsprung weight. The stock Z06 rotors are 29# each. I've been reading about recovering HP by reducing rotating mass at the corners. An estimate is .8hp for every 1lb of rotating mass removed.