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Old Jan 24, 2011 | 08:57 PM
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Took the car out today for a quick spin. Accelerating uphill merging on the freeway...

Im honestly fed up with the lack of traction the car has even though the rear tires have 70% tread left and its stock aside from the heat soaked dual cone intake...

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what tires do you have ?
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what tires do you have ?
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Old Jan 24, 2011 | 09:25 PM
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See if they make a Bridgestone Potenza RE-11 in your rear tire size. It is the best street tire you can put on. I had them while supercharged and they were the best street tire I tried. I now have Mickey Thompson ET Street II tires on back...but the RE-11s rock.
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See if they make a Bridgestone Potenza RE-11 in your rear tire size. It is the best street tire you can put on. I had them while supercharged and they were the best street tire I tried. I now have Mickey Thompson ET Street II tires on back...but the RE-11s rock.
how about nitto 555r's?
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Old Jan 24, 2011 | 09:46 PM
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Originally Posted by black_phoenix
how about nitto 555r's?
They do great!
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Old Jan 24, 2011 | 09:48 PM
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I've heard good things about the Nitto too. I would say the RE-11 will probably out perform them however. When I took my S/C car to my current tuner, he was very impressed with them. Now when he supercharges a Vette, he puts on the RE-11 if the owner is staying with a street tire, and he has used the Nitto 555.
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cool, ill give them a try. Tires are def my next mod, then LT's etc etc.
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nitto nt05Rs for the rear. they are the new better nitto drag radials.
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I see a lot of vette owners with the Nitto Invos
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Old Jan 24, 2011 | 11:54 PM
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they dont have re-11s in the z06 size, get the nt05's or nt05r's. i put those on my dad c5z06 that would spin at 60 with those stock oem garbage tires then with the nt05's they dead hook anything over like 15-20ish
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vette sounds nice!
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