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Old Mar 14, 2006 | 07:11 AM
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I have a 1995 firebird formula that is in desperate need of some new tires. I would like to find a nice sticky tire but not too expensive. I autocross on the weekends and I would like to get into time trials or open track. This is also my daily driver so I cant have a wheel to soft that wont last me but 2 months. I need to find a happy medium. Also if you know of anywhere I can get a set of tires for fairly cheap that would be great.
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Old Mar 14, 2006 | 07:46 AM
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So you want:

sticky
long lasting
cheap

Geez ... someone post up where I can find a set as well ...
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Old Mar 14, 2006 | 09:15 AM
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Yeah I know you can always hope right. Like I said above I want to find a happy medium. Can anyone tell me it they have falken or kumo or nittos. I would like to know how they stick.
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I ran the nitto 555 R2s for a long time as a street tire. they had reasonable grip and life. And they were easy on the wallet at $180 each.

But that was years ago ....

Remember ... a grippy racing type tire is gonna really suck in the rain.
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Old Mar 14, 2006 | 08:46 PM
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Did you say you were looking for the Holy Grail?


Take a look at the Falken RT-615s. 200 treadwear and is approved for the Street Performance Class in Solo 2. Discount Tire Direct sells them.
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Old Mar 15, 2006 | 07:36 PM
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cool thanks alot.
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Old Mar 15, 2006 | 08:41 PM
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azenis (rt-615) suck in the rain (normal driving). You should also look at the Kumho ecsta MX, tirerack has them.
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Old Mar 16, 2006 | 03:17 PM
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Thats what iam going to go with. Only Iam going to get them from tirekingdom.com all four mounted and balanced its like 457 dollars.
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Originally Posted by mitchntx
I ran the nitto 555 R2s for a long time as a street tire. they had reasonable grip and life. And they were easy on the wallet at $180 each.

But that was years ago ....

Remember ... a grippy racing type tire is gonna really suck in the rain.
I run the R2's as well, but last time I checked they only had 17" and 18" sizes.
I bought a set of 16x9.5" ARE Corvette wheels with the intention of getting R2's for them, but no 16" sizes from Nitto .

I have about 12K miles and 5 auto-x events on my R2's and they are down to the wear bars. I now use them only for auto-x since I can't spend $800 for another set right now.
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what about the nitto nto1's what kinda results have been seen with them?
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