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Old 03-02-2011, 11:10 PM
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okay whats some opinions on what you think the best traction true radial tire is? I daily drive the car 30 miles a day just to and from work, so a drag radial is not for me. the road racing spec tires seem to only have a 6/32" tread depth, and im wanting a little more life than that as well as not get beat to snot driving on rocks.

the hardest part seems to be my tire size....looking for a 275 or 285/40R18

thanks for your input guys
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Love my GSD3s, i get very minimal spin from a 2nd gear roll on nitrous. I get ZERO on motor in any gear.
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I daily drive nitto invo's on my vette and love em.
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Originally Posted by 1sickz28
I daily drive nitto invo's on my vette and love em.
i was really wondering how the worked out...they are a very good price too.
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I went through many high end (fast) car forums and many of them were raving about the new Toyo Proxes 1. I ordered four and am putting them on next week. I hope they deliver.
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toyo r888 work pretty well too
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Originally Posted by tripblackls1
toyo r888 work pretty well too
i really like them, i would like them more if they werent $400 a tire though
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you can usually buy them used with a lot of good tread left from road racing guys for cheap
and the best part is there usually really well taking car of
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i ended up going with a bridgestone Potenza RE-11. at $300 a tire they better be phenomenal
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i was gonna say Kumho Ecstca XS. They are a sharp autocross tire but with similar rubber as the Nittos so you can kinda drag race in them. Def. not $300 a tire, though
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Originally Posted by 67goatman455
i ended up going with a bridgestone Potenza RE-11. at $300 a tire they better be phenomenal
No kidding! Hope they last ya a long time
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i put down 1.8's on 245 fuzions back in the day consistently, it was awesome especially for how cheap they are.



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