I've been a member for sometime. Only reading though. I like that it's more go than show here, just felt I never had anything good enough to contribute.
On with some info. I don't know about the Nittos, but Im sure they are similar. This is my first pair of R compunds. A buddy had the RA1s on his car and after a ride I needed no convincing on what tire I wanted. I have about 8,000 miles on them with 3 open track days, dozen or so autoX and drag racing events. The backs look really good. I think they have at least another 8,000 or more in them. The fronts seem to get the brunt of the abuse. With close to 2 degrees of static camber the inside is showing wear from the mileage and after a track day the outside shoulder really gets hammered. I will be happy if I get 3,000 more miles out of them. Since I run 15 inch wheels the prices are realatively cheap at $130 a tire.
I don't know how much the tires were worth in the skid pad, but the testers did say that if people want good numbers they need good tires. If you see the current issue of PHR (May 2006) Tate Walthall's 65 mustang, which was there that day, only got a .88g with a very nice suspension setup on street tires. Maybe someone could lend me street tires and PHR could do a retest. I'm sure Toyo would love the press.
Last edited by Alcino; 03-21-2006 at 04:00 PM.
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