You have to get them realllyyyy hot. But then again I speak from using them at ned. With track bite. So on the street wich is basically what your racing on I don't know. I still say get em super hot and see what happens. And ride the clutch don't hit the tires.

Yeah I get my 28 inch nittos to dead hook from a 10 mph roll on the street with a 150 hit now. I will find out in a few hours how they hook at the track.

auto

It's much worse than the street. And I basically have to turn my steering wheel 90 degrees to the left to overcome the slide to the left.. down the bank basically.

My tires are like 4 years old though too.. I'll get new ones next year.

You actually don't want the nittos too hot or they get oily i'd say a nice 4-5 second burnout for nitto's worjs best

really? ive always heard and had better luck wen they were SUPER Hot. like 10 seconds of smoke hot. and ive still only cut a 1.9 with them......

They say when you get them brand new do a good burnout like 15-20 then use them regularly and do a 5 second burner before launch. Has always worked for me when i had them when i use to daily my car

maybe thats why they suck for me?

From what I read the first heat cycle and burn out are super important.

I had my Nitto DRs heat cycled when I bought them and get great traction even without heating them up.

Stock auto lt1. Big difference. Wen my car was stock I could hook on nittos. After the head cam stroker there was no way. And I have less power the bryanH. So I think its gunna be best to just try different things till they hook. Most of us including myself only have experience with them at the track. And I know on my car anyway they don't hook that well on the street.

at normal tire pressure on the street my car will just sit at 6k in 1st and 2nd with the MT Radials

Interesting. Maybe I'll give this a try. Last event I experimented with much lower tire pressures in the back. 5 psi less than I normally run. ~20 rear driver and ~27 rear passenger. I did this because I recently tried a 5 psi less setup at autox and my car felt much better. Slightly more rollover but once it does that.. it plants.

That's been my experience with the Nitto DRs too, the sidewall will flex a little but they stick like glue. Just have to get used to it.

if you do a 15-20 second burnout on a new pair of those theyre going to be about half worn when your done lol. ask maddie.

For the amount of events I do, my tires typically harden up due to age way before the tread is gone.

Has anyone else tried having Nittos heat cycled when purchasing? Discount Tire Direct does it for $15 a tire. I had mine done, and I can't compare them to tires that haven't been heat cycled because these are the first ones I've used but I can say they perform great, even after 3 years and ~10k miles, and still have enough tread for at least one more season.

I always buy mine from DiscountTire. I should try this. I'm only buying two next season so it shouldn't be too bad.

Hey pizza I got some 16" MT ET street radials that you can try out, theyre worn a bit but they should hook well.

shit really??? what size?

I believe theyre these: http://www.summitracing.com/parts/MTT-3793R/

I'll be at my dads tomorrow and I'll take a look

id look into pinion angle. now that i have mine set up right and the rear sway bar is in i get 0 wheel hop on the street. just burns tire like its job.

and you had tire hop before the pinion angle change. only changed that and its better?