Nitto Drag Radials Cracked
03-20-2008, 09:59 AM
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nittos iv'e had nittos on my car for years. don't drive it much, about once a week. even had spares sitting in my garage and haven't had one problem with them. these were 315-17 555 and 555R type for drag racing...........RON
03-20-2008, 11:18 AM
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a lot of this has to do with the climite. id bet the cold isnt as bad as the humidity, then no humidity the way it is in florida. expand and shrink, expand and shrink. im no tire expert, but maybe you could compare it to bending copper tubing back and forth. sooner or later the heat is going to fatique and crack it.
i dunno.
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i dunno.
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03-25-2008, 08:41 PM
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I cant get my pics small enough to work on here. Im pretty sure the problem is from the cold weather storage this winter we had some -30 degree days. So from now on the tire come in the house fro the winter.
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just picked up a set of 555r's that had been in someone's garage for 3 years. he drove on them once and then put them up. they are in mint condition. i took them out and they dont hook when cold but after warming them slightly they hold my 3200 stall and tr224 cam off the line.
10-18-2008, 08:37 PM
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Please tell me what street tires hook better on the street than the nittos? I have tried a few of them, and the only ones that I found to be halfway decent were the GS-D3 but they were also close to $600 for the pair. They were good but not as good as the nittos on the street. At the track it is a very different story, but on the street the nitto hooks the best, and last for a decent amount of time, and are pretty good on wet pavement. So I think you comment that nitto sucks is very unfair!!!
