whats a good tire pressure
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whats a good tire pressure whats is a good tire pressure for 285/40/17 nittos nt555's, the street tire
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Last edited by Smoke Em; Aug 24, 2009 at 09:22 PM.
Low profile tire like that, start @ 25 PSI, and work your way up/down from there. Probaly will need to go up, but every car is gonna be different, especially *** end weight.
What you can do is drop your tires to @ 25 PSI, and do a pretty good burnout, right there in your driveway or what have you, and soon as you finish, hop out as quick as you can if you don't have a friend with you (which obviously helps if you do), and feel the tire. Looking for the tire to be hot across the WHOLE tire.
If TOO much pressure, it will be more so in teh center (tire will "bow"), and if not enough, it will be hotter @ the outer edges. (tire will "cup").
AND, if you are fortunate enough, you can actually LOOK at the tire marks on teh ground. If it is blacker on teh outer edges, not enough pressure. If darker in center, too much. Uniform across whole tire, perfect.
What you can do is drop your tires to @ 25 PSI, and do a pretty good burnout, right there in your driveway or what have you, and soon as you finish, hop out as quick as you can if you don't have a friend with you (which obviously helps if you do), and feel the tire. Looking for the tire to be hot across the WHOLE tire.
If TOO much pressure, it will be more so in teh center (tire will "bow"), and if not enough, it will be hotter @ the outer edges. (tire will "cup").
AND, if you are fortunate enough, you can actually LOOK at the tire marks on teh ground. If it is blacker on teh outer edges, not enough pressure. If darker in center, too much. Uniform across whole tire, perfect.
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Low profile tire like that, start @ 25 PSI, and work your way up/down from there. Probaly will need to go up, but every car is gonna be different, especially *** end weight.
What you can do is drop your tires to @ 25 PSI, and do a pretty good burnout, right there in your driveway or what have you, and soon as you finish, hop out as quick as you can if you don't have a friend with you (which obviously helps if you do), and feel the tire. Looking for the tire to be hot across the WHOLE tire.
If TOO much pressure, it will be more so in teh center (tire will "bow"), and if not enough, it will be hotter @ the outer edges. (tire will "cup").
AND, if you are fortunate enough, you can actually LOOK at the tire marks on teh ground. If it is blacker on teh outer edges, not enough pressure. If darker in center, too much. Uniform across whole tire, perfect.
What you can do is drop your tires to @ 25 PSI, and do a pretty good burnout, right there in your driveway or what have you, and soon as you finish, hop out as quick as you can if you don't have a friend with you (which obviously helps if you do), and feel the tire. Looking for the tire to be hot across the WHOLE tire.
If TOO much pressure, it will be more so in teh center (tire will "bow"), and if not enough, it will be hotter @ the outer edges. (tire will "cup").
AND, if you are fortunate enough, you can actually LOOK at the tire marks on teh ground. If it is blacker on teh outer edges, not enough pressure. If darker in center, too much. Uniform across whole tire, perfect.
GEN414 what tire pressure do you recommend for M/T ET Street DRs 26X10.5X16???
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Verdad Gallardo Tire like that, with more sidewall than teh above mentioned tire, down to @ 14-16PSI, and same thing, go up/down as needed.
You want to run AS MUCH tire pressure that you can, and STILL hook...remember that.
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