LeanPocket

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When: Bought these tires november of 2011

Rain: These tires were adequate in the rain, but not ideal. I had to drive 10 miles under the speedlimit and didn't give it any gas and they worked as they would with any other tire.

Grip: Dead hooked with mods in sig, spraying 150shot nano @ 3k on the street and on the track on a A4/4l60e with a stock stall launching at 1600RPM

Price: More expensive compared to other drag radials, but price is well justified considering what its designed for. Paid a little over 500$ installed and balanced.

Tread life: Excellent for a drag radial. Put on about 25k miles with these tires, see pictures below and replaced them this month. 90% highway miles and 8% city miles and 2% racing miles. With tire cleaning cycles before numerous runs on the street (lost count), and semi smokey burnouts at the track (about three times) I was very surprised i got what I did out of these tires. Prior to these I had 2 sets of nt555r nittos, those only lasted me about 5-8k miles with same driving habits.


Passenger side


Driver side


Passenger side


Driver side


Drive side

Lmk what u think

Mrmooney

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Awsome. Thinking this will be my next tire for sure.

LeanPocket

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cannot go wrong with these tires

LeanPocket

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im no tire expert, but the passengerside tire still hasnt reached the wear marks

very excellent long lasting DR's for daily driving

Beave

Good tires for sure. How did you only get 5-8k out of 555r's? Those typically always go 15k+ miles, ive put 25k on a set not problem and know ppl with 700whp cars getting 15k out of them.

LeanPocket

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Realistically it was probably more around 10k. I remember i bought a brand new set of those and they were gone within less than 6 months.. like around 4-5 months give or take. Driving habits were different aswell. Personally Im buying a set of those 555r's for my 15" racestar wheels. 10-15 is what to expect on the nittos from personal experience, Ive had 2 sets of those, however the MT has ALOT of tread.. and judging by my tread wear u can tell i had alot of fun on those tires lol

Also, I gave those to my best friend and he was cutting a 2.0 60' on his truck haha.. showing wires and everything. The passenger side still has alot of tread left for some good runs on his truck.. too bad the driverside is junk now.

Photochop

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Great review man, doesn't surprise me though, they seemed to last longer than compared to the older R1s - I've had both on previous cars. 25k miles is A LOT more than I'd have guessed though. 15k would've been my guess

LeanPocket

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in all reality, you can thank that on highway miles. Stop and go id expect about 15k +/-

but hey, daily driving that up to 25k miles +/- is very impressive IMO

sabersaw30

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What was your 60ft on the 555r and the Mickey?I just bought some 555r just curious.What tire pressure should I try at the track?I got the 275 50 15 which would have a little more sidewall on a 8 inch rim.

LeanPocket

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on a stock stall.. 2.01 60', dead hooking spraying at 3k launching at 1400'ish at 30psi. I'll give you an updated number when i spray out of the hole next time i go to the track later this month. I expect to hit 1.6-1.7 on these tires with the stock stall.

for them not being a tall tire, i've seen people cut 1.5's which is up par with regular et streets.

With regular et street's mightymouse was capable of cutting a 1.2'ish 60' running mid 8's, and the et street ii's were the tire of choice to for heffner lambos to break into the 8's.

With the nitto's I would get 2.1's and 2.2's and I noticed that I am required to burnout longer with the nitto's vs my MT's. With that being said, stangkilr uses those exact tires and cuts very good 60's with those, and those will be my tire of choice when i grab some taller tires on my racestar wheels. Cant beat the price.

jlrz28

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I agree, great tire and hooks well at the track. 1.58 60'

Raoul-Duke

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So the M/T Street are Drag Radials right? Sorry for the dumb question, the other M/T Streets are also DRs too. Whats the difference?

jlrz28

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Look here this should answer your question. They have so many with almost the same names.

http://www.mickeythompsontires.com/strip.php

Raoul-Duke

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Much obliged!

LeanPocket

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theres 2 kinds:
et street's and et street ii's

Both use the exact same soft tread compound. Only difference is tread pattern. The et street ii's were geared more towards being more street friendly and work better in wetter conditions.

If i wanted a taller version, regular et streets hands down, but for your 17-18-19-20" wheel they are a perfect compromise!

Here are the current sizes.
P205/50R14
P215/60R14
P205/50R15
P225/50R15
P315/45R16
P295/50R16
P205/40R17
P315/35R17
P295/45R17
P245/40R18
P315/30R18
P265/40R18
P305/35R18
P345/35R18
P305/45R18
P305/35R19
P305/35R20

HoLLo

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That's awesome. I just replaced my 315/35/18 Toyo Proxes TQ drag radials yesterday. Had them mounted Aug 2010. So 2 years and 4 months of daily driving, including many highway trips and a good bit of street racing. Had ~20k miles on them, and still could have gone a bit longer because there was still visible tread.

Sail Hatan

awesome. my next tires for sure. having sumitomos is basically an appearance mod to have 315s, cause they dont hook under 30 when hot. forget cold.

LeanPocket

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i always wondered about those tires

LeanPocket

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do u know if they make them in 15" wide 26" tall?