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Whose running Nitti DR's?
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<blockquote data-quote="Killercanary" data-source="post: 1062670" data-attributes="member: 16009"><p>I've run nitto's for years. Nitto's ARE a great drag radial... if you know how to use them. They do require more driver effort than say an ET street, and they are more incosistent. From my experience with nittos:</p><p>1. They never hook very well on their first outing. A heat cycle a day or so before racing on them might correct this.</p><p>2. They are a dual compound design, so yes, you've got to heat them them if you want them to hook. I do a second gear burnout (I have 4.10's) for about 5-8 seconds.</p><p>3. For the most part, nittos require the driver to learn the finesse of clutch slipping. On the near stock motor I was able to pretty much dump the clutch at 4K and they would hook and go to a 1.91 60'. Now I have to slip the clutch out at around 3000rpms, but I've had a best of 1.72 60' on 245-50-16 nittos, and that was with the 100% stock suspension. I have since added LCA's but I'm running on ET streets now.</p><p>4. Lower air pressure works well on the track, and the street. Every set of nitto's I've owned wear out in the center first. I ran my second set with 25lbs of air on the street and they lasted about 2K more miles. I got around 10K out of my first set and around 12K out of my second. At the track, my car likes 16-18lbs of air. I have friends with H/C/I + Vortechs running their air pressure down to 12lbs and it works for them as both are in the 1.6's.</p><p>5. The type of clutch you have can have a BIG effect on how well you are able to launch on nittos. I run the often disliked FMS HD unit, but it works well for me as its an easy clucth to slip. I have a good friend with a Vortech'd 94-95 cobra and he made a switch from the FMS HD setup to the Spec stage II and since that clutch engages much faster and is harder to slip, he lost almost 2 tenths just in his 60'. He fought with it for most of the year last year and I don't think he ever got back to mid 1.6's like he was running before. He runs 275-40-17 nitto DR's.</p><p></p><p>Be careful of running too low of air pressure with the 18's though as you don't have much sidewall to begin with, you don't want to bounce the rim off the ground on launch.</p><p>All that being said, I have switched to 26X10.5X16 ET streets for the track and my time shave fallen dramatically. I just bought a set of bogart RR10's for my car with a 17X10.5 for the rear, I am putting a set of 315-35-17 nitto DR's on the back and I will see how good I can run with these big meets.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Killercanary, post: 1062670, member: 16009"] I've run nitto's for years. Nitto's ARE a great drag radial... if you know how to use them. They do require more driver effort than say an ET street, and they are more incosistent. From my experience with nittos: 1. They never hook very well on their first outing. A heat cycle a day or so before racing on them might correct this. 2. They are a dual compound design, so yes, you've got to heat them them if you want them to hook. I do a second gear burnout (I have 4.10's) for about 5-8 seconds. 3. For the most part, nittos require the driver to learn the finesse of clutch slipping. On the near stock motor I was able to pretty much dump the clutch at 4K and they would hook and go to a 1.91 60'. Now I have to slip the clutch out at around 3000rpms, but I've had a best of 1.72 60' on 245-50-16 nittos, and that was with the 100% stock suspension. I have since added LCA's but I'm running on ET streets now. 4. Lower air pressure works well on the track, and the street. Every set of nitto's I've owned wear out in the center first. I ran my second set with 25lbs of air on the street and they lasted about 2K more miles. I got around 10K out of my first set and around 12K out of my second. At the track, my car likes 16-18lbs of air. I have friends with H/C/I + Vortechs running their air pressure down to 12lbs and it works for them as both are in the 1.6's. 5. The type of clutch you have can have a BIG effect on how well you are able to launch on nittos. I run the often disliked FMS HD unit, but it works well for me as its an easy clucth to slip. I have a good friend with a Vortech'd 94-95 cobra and he made a switch from the FMS HD setup to the Spec stage II and since that clutch engages much faster and is harder to slip, he lost almost 2 tenths just in his 60'. He fought with it for most of the year last year and I don't think he ever got back to mid 1.6's like he was running before. He runs 275-40-17 nitto DR's. Be careful of running too low of air pressure with the 18's though as you don't have much sidewall to begin with, you don't want to bounce the rim off the ground on launch. All that being said, I have switched to 26X10.5X16 ET streets for the track and my time shave fallen dramatically. I just bought a set of bogart RR10's for my car with a 17X10.5 for the rear, I am putting a set of 315-35-17 nitto DR's on the back and I will see how good I can run with these big meets. [/QUOTE]
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