1BadZ95

I'm looking for a drag radial that will be pretty much street use only. Maybe track one time a year. So I need a good traction radial yet be good for a Daily Driver in the rain, and get decent amount of miles out of it. I have stock Salad shooters so Nittos would be 245-50-16, and M/T would be 255-50-16.
Thanks in advance!

melchoir

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M/T won't last through a year of DD, and should NOT be used in the rain.

Buy the Nittos, they are however near impossible to find in that size.

1BadZ95

Thats what I figured. Dicount Tire Direct has them.
Nitto
NT 555R Drag Radial 245/50R-16 96 B for $136.00ea.

davered00ss

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Nitto's don't hook any better than street tires.

1BadZ95

Hmm I dont know about that. I've heard of some people running 1.7 60' with them.

RevGTO

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They don't hook anything like MT's, but they're a lot better than most street tires. I use them on the street and MT's at the track.

brad8266

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Go with the M/T if you dont put too much mileage on the car. I go a round trip of 10 mile a day for work, so its no big deal for me. And if it rains I have another car.

BOTTLE ROCKET

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Wrong;

I went from 295 Kumhos to 305 555RIIs and the differnece was literaly like Night and Day!!! The Kumhos would go up in smoke at almost any speed below 45mph, but the Nittos hook like Heck!!

davered00ss

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I cut 19 60's on my yokohamma street tires (cheap ones) and 1.90 -2.00 60's in the Nitto's. And cold Nitto's on the street?

BURN'EM

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With good suspension anything is possible like me turning 1.67 on BFG's KDWS all season radials. I run M/T's your looking at 3,000 miles at best.

ls1muscle

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Nitto's suck when it's cold outside, as does any tire. But when it's warm out they're 10x better than street tires.

BOTTLE ROCKET

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Exactly;

I have a H/C C5 A4 with 3500 stall. The Kumhos were fine before the heads (3.76 0-60mph), but after the heads, I could never get below 4.1 due to tremendous wheel spin no matter how I launched. After the Nittos, with the tires warm (read; short burnout) I ran a best of 3.37 0-60mph with just a small amount of wheelspin. (All runs with a G-tech pro.) The Nittos just flat out HOOK for me!
And since I got the R2s, the last trip to the mountains a couple of weeks ago was a BLAST!!

RevGTO

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That's why my Nittos will come off mid-November to mid-March and KDWS on.

davered00ss

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Get the MT ET Street Radials.

02 BLK WS6

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ET Street Radials FTW, but if you do drive in the rain, anything more than 35-40 mph can get scary.

davered00ss

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The ET street radial is new. A couple of my friends went from Nitto's to them and say they hook 100X better than the nitto's on the street.

black_knight

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I have run Nittos for a while and you can get 20,000+ miles out of them if you do it right. Other DR's won't last much beyond 8,000 miles. Some won't last beyond 3,000. Frankly, that's not daily driver territory, these are more like cheater tires made to win drag radial class racing with no actual intent of being used for daily driving.

Unless you're made of money, you're stuck with Nittos at best for the street.

BriancWS6

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I too am looking at these two for my car. I have ran the Nittos on my current car and my previous a4 car. I have beat the **** outta these tires for miles, I am talking 15k+, hundreds of burnouts, and not short ones.

To you people that say they're no better than street tires, and that they suck in the cold, your dead wrong. My car is making 446/411, and last nite it was in the 40s for sure. I could just jab the throttle in 2nd at any given time and the car would send them up in smoke and go sideways. This was at 20psi after 40 miles of driving! I went out to a backroad just to see...and dropped them on down to 18, and did a 8 sec burnout, took off at 3k bogging it purposely, then rolled into 1st. It hooked rather well, and the main thing I was concerned about was the hard 1-2 shift, which turned out fine too.

Point is ANY tire sucks in the cold when they are cold. Put some heat in the Nittos and they will out-perform ANY street tire by an enourmous amount. I also 60ft'd 1.64 with them in my a4 car FWIW. 1.82 in my current m6 car with stock suspension and they were significantly past the TWI.

There's no way I would run any street tire over these. But I do think the MTs will be alot better for the track and for street races. I just have to make up my mind if the trade-off in mileage, getting caught in the rain, and any handling differences are worth it to me.

To the original poster, good luck in your decision, it's a hard one, I know.....

WILWAXU

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M/T hook the best, but..

Nitto's if you have any possible chance of driving in the rain.

blaSSt

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My Nittos cut a 1.69 60' but I could only go about 40 MPH in the rain.