05-20-2009
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Shit Rocket Pilot
Join Date: Oct 2003
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Re: Help Choosing Tires
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Originally Posted by Speedfreak
What about G-Force T/A KD's? (not the KDW's etc) A good friend had them on his 300z a few years ago and they were great at Brainerd(road course) and on the street.
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The KDs are probably fine, 200 treadwear, though they are not a popular tire at all when it comes to the autocross community which is where tire manufacturers look to when creating a high performance street tire. The Kumho MX and Falken RT615 were the dominant tire for quite a while until the MX was no longer produced. Along came the Dunlop Z1 two years ago, then this year Kumho released the XS which is supposedly the hot ticket, doing really well on the national level.
For the price, I'd pick a Dunlop Z1 or Kumho XS over the BFG KD as the KD is $50 more in 245/40/17 size.
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05-21-2009
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immune from paybans
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Re: Help Choosing Tires
What do you guys think of the NT05? It's in a similar price range as the 615 and Z1, about $150 per tire. I've been reading a lot of great reviews on it.
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05-21-2009
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Shit Rocket Pilot
Join Date: Oct 2003
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Re: Help Choosing Tires
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Originally Posted by asshanson
What do you guys think of the NT05? It's in a similar price range as the 615 and Z1, about $150 per tire. I've been reading a lot of great reviews on it.
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Good tire, but I'd spend my money on a Dunlop Z1 or Kumho XS. The NT05 is good, but not quite as great as these other two tires.
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"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." -Mario Andretti
03 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tachyon
Every minute you spend in your Evo, not in boost, is a minute of your life you'll never get back.
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05-21-2009
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formerly ecoli
Join Date: Oct 2003
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Re: Help Choosing Tires
When are you going to the drag strip next and do you have coilovers? I might have some slicks you can use.
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05-21-2009
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Pewp Champion
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Blaine
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Re: Help Choosing Tires
Who me? I'm going on the 30th or 31st. And no coilovers. I'm just on a basic Eibach Pro Kit / AGX setup.
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05-21-2009
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Re: Help Choosing Tires
How many miles would you expect to get on the Z1 or XS? 15k?
Brandon, why did your tires get so bad after just 4k miles? Bad alignment?
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05-21-2009
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Pewp Champion
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Re: Help Choosing Tires
Well the outsides of them are shot from the cruise. The insides have a lot of wear, like you'd see from real bad camber. Although I don't think the front has that bad of camber. So I'm not 100% positive on that.
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05-21-2009
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Shit Rocket Pilot
Join Date: Oct 2003
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Re: Help Choosing Tires
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Originally Posted by asshanson
How many miles would you expect to get on the Z1 or XS? 15k?
Brandon, why did your tires get so bad after just 4k miles? Bad alignment?
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My Z1s lasted 19 autocross events and at least 12k miles (winter tires) but probably more. Figure at least 4 runs per autocross, up to 6 usually. I rotated them religiously and had them flipped left/right once midway through last season. I wouldn't doubt that with a good straight up alignment you'd get 20k street miles out of them.
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"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." -Mario Andretti
03 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tachyon
Every minute you spend in your Evo, not in boost, is a minute of your life you'll never get back.
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05-22-2009
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#29
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: MN
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Re: Help Choosing Tires
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Originally Posted by asshanson
How many miles would you expect to get on the Z1 or XS? 15k?
Brandon, why did your tires get so bad after just 4k miles? Bad alignment?
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I'm assuming alignment issues. The inside of the fronts looked very bad. I've only seen wear like that from rears with bad camber issues. |
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05-22-2009
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immune from paybans
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Re: Help Choosing Tires
The same thing happened to my last set of rear tires. Too much toe out and the insides were completely bald after one summer. Been driving almost a year on these now and no issues because I got it aligned.
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