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Old Sep 16, 2013 | 03:27 PM
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What do you use? Im looking at Mickey Thompson drag radials and Nitto NT05R.
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Old Sep 16, 2013 | 03:37 PM
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Depends how streetable you want to be - MTs are gonna be worse in the rain, but hook better.
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Old Sep 16, 2013 | 03:41 PM
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Toyo Proxes TQ
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Old Sep 16, 2013 | 03:53 PM
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never sees rain unless it shows up outta no where
Just need to know what all tires people have tried.
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Old Sep 19, 2013 | 02:38 PM
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I went from Nitto NT555R garbage. Then got Nitto NT05R. Hooked good. Then I switched over to 28" M/T ET Street Pros. Lets just say they lifted the front tire of my bolt on LS1 at the track.......

But that's a full on drag strip tire but I don't care I still DD on it. Have been since last February. But M/T ET street or Nitto NT05R will be a good choice. Id probably say the ET street hook better but the Nitto last longer & aren't that far off from the M/T. Just give them a good warm up lower the psi to 20 or so & your be good
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Old Sep 21, 2013 | 10:32 AM
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the nt 05r is more of a autocross tire..the mickey Thompson et streets hook good they were 315s now to nitto 555r on the rear on a 275 never tired yet
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Old Sep 21, 2013 | 04:57 PM
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Originally Posted by DoggyB22
I went from Nitto NT555R garbage. Then got Nitto NT05R. Hooked good. Then I switched over to 28" M/T ET Street Pros. Lets just say they lifted the front tire of my bolt on LS1 at the track.......

But that's a full on drag strip tire but I don't care I still DD on it. Have been since last February. But M/T ET street or Nitto NT05R will be a good choice. Id probably say the ET street hook better but the Nitto last longer & aren't that far off from the M/T. Just give them a good warm up lower the psi to 20 or so & your be good
That is an improvement LOL but full race tire of course

ET street is best all around
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Originally Posted by man-o-war
That is an improvement LOL but full race tire of course

ET street is best all around


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Originally Posted by unioncarpenter84
the nt 05r is more of a autocross tire..the mickey Thompson et streets hook good they were 315s now to nitto 555r on the rear on a 275 never tired yet
Negative. NT05R = drag radial. NTO5 = ultra high performance street tire, used a lot for autox/rr.
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Lol ^^^ this... yea NT05R are NOT for autocross.... there for the strip. haha
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