RiPPinZ11

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hey i go to the strip about once or twice a year and its a summer car, wouldnt it make sense to get nitto 555s on the rear and then sum cheap tire on the front seeing as fronts hardly matter? or do they? im thinking nitto 55s for sure but i hear they donot last long. someone told me the nitto 450s are good and hook well, but thats on a 5.0, good for my car?

shaun

they make regular 555's and 555r's the r's are drag radials

Juiced2000SS

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I did 555R's on the back and regular 555's on the front so they match.

SeriousPWRTRIP

I had a set of Nitto 555R drag radials and they worked good for me at the track (bolt on A4 with stock stall). Also had decent treadwear for a radial. If you do not want a drag radial, get matching goodyear gs-d3s front and back (great tires). I have always been a fan of matching tires myself, so when i had goodyear gs-d3s up front and nitto 555r's in the back, it drove me nuts just looking at it.

Viper

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The handling combo of 555r's in back and regular 555 up front sucks though. However it doesn't appear as if that's a concern for you. Nothing wrong with 555r's on all 4 corners, just be caredul in standing water/heavy rain is all.

CamaroSS621

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ive had 305 18 555 DR's on the back of my stang and I just purchased a front set of 555s for the front to match

BlackHawk T/A

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Why is that?

blackrat

[QUOTE=BlackHawk T/A]Why is that?[/QUOT

I was thinking about this too. I used to have the r's in the back, but the road race spec rIIs in the front. I thought it was decent handling for the street, but you could tell that it was stiff up front (stiff sidewall) and kind of sloppy in the rear with the soft sidewalled drags during hard turns.

It wasn't like it was dangerous or anything, but I can definantly tell the differance now thatg I'm running rIIs on all 4 corners.

RiPPinZ11

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well i was thinking these for fronts

and these for rears


no good?
theyre both nittos

joshtownsend

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the 555 will go more than 20000 miles on the front and still have great tread..and I have never had a problem with them in the front...or the back for that matter..Just bought some 285/35/18..new set for $400 even..hee hee

RiPPinZ11

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im not worried bout tread...more of price

Viper

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"The handling combo of 555r's in back and regular 555 up front sucks though.
Why is that?"

Because the back is sticky and the front is not; you get severe push in hard (autox, rr) situations. On the street it's 100% fine, you're not testing the limits of the car.

The best is RII's on the street on all 4 corners, you stick like glue.

SeriousPWRTRIP

i ran that combo for a few months. The 450s were not the best handling, but decent nonetheless. I too was looking for something cheap at the time and they were a good option for a similar looking tire. However, the sidewalls look nothing alike and that was the thing that caught my attention the most. I was told by a few friends that my front tires looked like i stole them off of a sport sedan and that they had no business on a muscle car. I loved my 555r's in the back though. Of course, i ignored what they said and kept driving on them because they got the job done while i was saving for the new rims and tires.

BlackHawk T/A

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555's for the front on the street.

Zepher

I agree with this 100%. I ran my RII's for about 14 months as my daily tires and they were awesome. I think I got approx. 13K miles of aggressive street driving (basically taking on/off ramps at higher than normal speed) so far out of them, but I now use them only for auto-x, and since the auto-x is only 5 miles from my house, i'll drive to and from there on them.

My street tires now are Kumho Ecsta 712's up front and Nitto 555's out back, since I can't afford to get another RII set at the moment..

~RedLineLs1~

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I have the RII's out back and hankooks up front. The RIIs hook good for me at the track and I don't have to deal with a soft sidewall...thats why I didnt worry too much about the fronts. I don't do any autox/rr but the car handles fine on the streets. They obvioulsy look a lot different but nobody has even noticed the different tread.

RiPPinZ11

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RIIs...who makes them? they sound good to me. the only thing i was concerned about with 55s on all corners was when it rains? will it be like a slip n slide or what? i have read some good reviews and sum bad

Zepher

Nitto makes the RII's, they are the 555RII's. They are identical to the 555R Drag Radials, except they have a sidewall stiffener to keep the sidewalls from flexing under extreme cornering.
The 555's and 555RII's were pretty decent in the rain, in fact, I heard horror stories from people spinning out with 555R's on the highway when it was raining which made me very cautious when I first drove in the rain with the RII's, but they didn't hydroplane any more than normal tires and felt quite stable.

The 555's are better in the rain since they are a normal everyday street tire with smaller tread blocks and more water channels than the R and RII.

here is my 555,


and the RII,

SeriousPWRTRIP

I do recommend the RIIs for you if you want a sticky rear tire. I had the 555R and they were good, but didnt feel as stable in cornering at higher speeds. I didnt know at that time that the 555RII was made of the same compound, so i opted for what i thought was the stickier of the 2. In the rain, the 555Rs were decent. To me, they felt like a nearly bald street tire in the rain. As long as you take it easy and know the limits of the car and the whereabouts of standing water, you will be fine. I enjoyed playing with the tires in dry weather as the soft compound produces a ton of smoke during a burnout.

SSilverSSurfer

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+100, seems like theyre never going to go bald, ive already been through 4 set of drag radials and still on the fronts that i bought the first time