What Radial to Run?

[Phx99Cobra]

I will soon need to be getting new street tires for my car. I currently have the Nitto 555 drag radial. They are a good tire, but traction is a little iffy. What is everyone opinion on tires for an 18in rim that have good traction but a decent wear life?

[AZSonicSnake]

i ran mickey thompson's, but the wear life sucked! i now have a set of nitto dr's in the new compound and i must tell ya, they are way better than the last set of nitto dr's i had. and this is all in an 18.

[Casey39er]

After I got out of my stock tires with Nitto drag radials in the rear I changed over to Toyo Proxes T1R all around. I could not be happier.

They LOVE the twisties

See link below for product info:
http://toyotires.com/tire/pattern/proxes-t1r

[az2k1]

Nitto came out with a NT-05 i think it has a 200 tread wear ....try thos out me my self run the 305-35-18 Nitto DR

[Chris]

I used to run the 555r's,just switched to the toyo proxes tq drag radial,only had them for 2 months so don't know how long they are going to last.But traction is better.I like emI'm running 17's but I know they do have them in 18's 315/35/18

[wickedcobra]

I had the Nitto 555 DR's and got about 5k miles out of them with a few passes down the track. I also ran some BFG DR's with 1 pass at the track and got less that 1k out of them so I wouldn't those. Alot of guys have been happy with the MT DR's.

[Wharf Rat]

I have been running the Mickey DRs from my house to the track and back only and man do they pick up a lot of crap. They look like I drove them through a gravel pit. I will probably start mounting them at the track after I dig the 85,000 pebbles out of them.

The BFG DRs weren't that bad for this but they also weren't as good of a track tire for me.

[IMSHAKN]

It really depends on what kind of mileage you want out of them. If you are looking for something that's going to be used on the street, I'd just pick up another set of Nitto's. The new compound is softer and stickier so you won't get quite as much life out of them, but they still are the best DR if you don't want to be replacing them constantly. Other things like the Toyo Proxes and the M/Ts are nice and sticky, but they don't have the wear life the Nitto's do. No matter what tire you go with, they'll be worlds better than a street tire.

[El Jefe]

I have the new NT05's, very sticky tire, very quiet, very easy on wet roads and I currently have almost 7k miles on them. I bet ill see at least 5k more from them. Nitto is coming out with a new drag radial, the NT05R, might check that out if you want a true drag radial otherwise the NT05 is an awesome street tire that hooks. I can spin in 1st now but it was almost impossible for the first 5k miles in 1st gear

NT05R



NT05

[Phx99Cobra]

Great, Thank guys you have given me some good info