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What are some good tires? Right now my car is stock and i can't nail it anywhere in 1st gear or im going sideways. I was thinking about drag radials, but how long do they last??

 

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Depends on if you burn out or not. Nitto 555's are the DR of choice in most posts. I have a set on the rear and they are very good. I'd say you can get 20k miles if you avoid smoking em for the most part. Others may disagree, but it all goes with how you drive them.

 

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what size tires do you have right now and how old are they? i personally wouldnt run drag radials on a daily driver, id just go to a wider tire, IE: if you have 225's now, go to 245's.

on my 97 cobra, i had stock 245's and could blow them off any time i wanted to. then i got new wheels and tires and went to a 275 rear and it actually look a little effort to get them to spin up

 

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275 nitto nt555s on tha back here and it takes a bit to get them to spin... cant go wrong with nitto

 

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QUICK91LX said:

what size tires do you have right now and how old are they? i personally wouldnt run drag radials on a daily driver, id just go to a wider tire, IE: if you have 225's now, go to 245's.

on my 97 cobra, i had stock 245's and could blow them off any time i wanted to. then i got new wheels and tires and went to a 275 rear and it actually look a little effort to get them to spin up

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so WHY do you not recommend a DR on daily driver????? i run Nitto DR's on my car which i driver everyday and they are over 1 yr old with decent tread and they do excellent in rain also. if your gonna doing smokey burn outs at other than just the track than NO a drag radial may not be for you then, but if you drive them normally youll be fine.


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i really could care less about burnouts, i just want to be able to step on it and not worry about going sideways

 

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Then get the DR's, I've got BFG's and they are great! The first time I floored it halfway through a left-hand turn and it HOOKED I was blown away!! Traction is such a cool concept....

 

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how long would a pair of drag radials last?

 

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blown1989saleen said:

so WHY do you not recommend a DR on daily driver????? i run Nitto DR's on my car which i driver everyday and they are over 1 yr old with decent tread and they do excellent in rain also. if your gonna doing smokey burn outs at other than just the track than NO a drag radial may not be for you then, but if you drive them normally youll be fine.


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for me personally, once in awhile i like to light up the tires just for fun, im sure many guys on the board are the same time. i mean, i dont go sideways every time i pull out of someplace, but once in awhile i like to have a little fun. the DR's wouldnt allow me to do this without really romping it good. i tried to lay a good patch with some NT555R's, and they spun for a sec but grabbed hard, i wouldnt want to have to lay into my car that much whenever i wanted to spin 'em up. so for me, DR's are not the way to go. if you arent into that, then DR's will work well.

 

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Lynx331 said:

how long would a pair of drag radials last?

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depends on the brand of tires and how you drive, but I read one person saying they got around 10,000 miles on their Nitto Drag Radials. I think BFG DR's wear out a little faster due to their softer compound (more traction at the track). I do not have drag radials, so I cannot say for sure - Just want to say that before someone comes in here and tells me i'm stupid or something.

 

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y ai have heard the nittos last a little longer. I would expect 18-20,000 mile sout of a set with the occasional burnout involved. NOT FOR THE RAIN

 

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I got almost 2 years out of my nitto dr's. Daily driven maybe 60 track passes and lots and lots of street passes (with burn outs). Only bad thing about nitto's is their made in japan

 

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go with nitto nt555r's, i'm gonna get me a pair whenever i get around to it

 

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I got DR's and would never go back, unless I wanted to spinn all over the place. I'll never forget my first night out with Nitto's, I nearly crapped myself because I nailed it in first gear it hooked, I had never been able to use first gear since I bought the car. It didn't make as much difference at the track as the street but still, wow.

There are several brands of DR's out there. Nitto's will last the longest, about the same as regular radials that are being spun all the time, but are definatly a step way over in traction. BFG DR's will be alot stickier, but will wear out real fast. My buddy had them on his car and got a whopping 3500 miles out of them, they only come with 6/32nds rubber. He had to patch them about 4 times in those 3500 miles because they are so sticky they pick up everything loose they run over and they are so soft rocks and stuff dug in and made them leak. There are MT DR's now, but I don't know anything about them.

As far as rain goes, they stick fine off the line real good when wet, but hydroplain real easy.

 

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I have the stock turbine wheels on my car and would like to keep them, will any of theres tires fit this rim size? I believe the tire size onthere now is 225/60-15

 

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245/50/15 or possibly 275/50/15 but it will be quite a tall tire, if it will fit underneath