Must have been close to 80* outside. Clean, typical asphault street. I tried a 0-60 run and really really concentrated on just smashing the pedal to the floor from a dead idle instead of rolling into it like I've been doing for almost 3 years. Managed that part and did a 4.75 0-60... not extraordinary but not bad either. Good News: The tires just chirped once before the weight transfer. Bad News: I don't have enough power to spin the tires anymore without doing a brake stand.
Dont feel bad me either some of us dont have other SRT's to drive while our other one is being overhauled with 1 billion horsepower:ilovesrtc:
I don't know... we looked at bikes a while ago and it didn't happen. I think he was worried about falling off.
Dave, you'll be interested to hear that Matt (Moneypit) had a favorable review of the NT05's at the track (Laguna Seca road course) yesterday. He's not sure why they handled so much better than they did at Thunder Hill a few weeks ago. They were new then, and he has around 3000 miles on them now. I'm anxiously awaiting more hard lateral data on these. When they first came out I was intending on getting them. Then, after Matt's initial review I was going back to the V's. Now, I'm leaning more towards the NT05's again. Damn Matt...he's got me on a frigging roller coaster ride!
You have to add 'local service anywhere' to the Nittos. Where's Matt's review? I was waiting for that. I suppose I'll have to go find it myself over on lxforums.
Hold on...I'll add it here in a minute! Or a while...LX is down at the moment! It really doesn't say more than I did. He's not sure if the surface at Thunder Hill wasn't complimentary for the NT-05's as compared to Laguna. he ran the same pressures. He just said they did real well. They were a couple seconds slower than his Hoosiers he ran the rest of the day. Which is REALLY good since it is a slick track tire.
I haven't pushed mine to where they slide yet... hard to bring yourself to do that on a cloverleaf with curbs when you don't know where it's going to happen at or how much. But I've developed some pretty good G force and not even a squeal yet.
Ok, Good News/Bad News part II. Good News: I DO have enough power to spin the Nittos at launch Bad News: It only happens at the track It is much harder to do but I still have to modulate the gas pedal. (Infineon! thread coming soon)
Dave, how is the road noise? I'm really leaning towards these as my next set of tires...275's of course. Why didn't you go with the 275's? Ding dong! I'll probably get them whether they are loud or not.
At about 50 up to about 60 you can hear them "sing". It's not loud but you can hear it. Sort of like you can hear it but if you were just a little distracted you might not notice. I was thinking about 275s but just wasn't absolutely positive about fitment on the front. There should be room in between the tire and knuckle but my RSAs were getting critically dangerous and it is going to put a bit more stress on the tie rods and every make of tire is a bit different on how they bulge or don't and I was going from 245s to 255s and I figured I could go 275 on the next set after you try them out.
I'm planning in getting these soon! Trying to improve on my best 60'.... 1.59 on Toyo proxes Nitto NT05's and a protorque!!! Wow! Why don't u guys do a rwd to awd swap lol
For the LXs (20") they're right in the ball park. ~$200 a tire (size will make a difference for all of them). That's about the same as the Vredesteins. More than the RSA's and less than the F1's. From everybody's impressions I'd say the RSA's, Toyos, Yokohamas are all sort of in a group and the F1's, Vredesteins, NT05's and maybe the Invo's are in another group. The F1's seem to be OK track tires, sort of OK street tires at the strip and really expensive. The Vredesteins seem to be good track tires and not so OK at the strip. The NT05's seem to be really good track tires and very good at the strip. The Invo's seem to be so-so at the strip and so-so on the track. They all seem to be very nice for noise and wet weather. Except for the F1's they all look cool. I paid $1100 for them mounted, TPMS charge, road force balanced, and a $60 alignment check (all on the top-o-the-line Hunter equipment).
