tires for drifting

Post by **thefro526** » Tue May 13, 2008 3:51 pm

If you go to some tire places they will let you have tires that their throwing away for free. A lot of the time they have to pay to get them removed so some places will let you have them. I know there's a place by me that does a lot of tire work and the just have a Big A** dumpster that they fill up with tires and then it gets taken away on some occasions. Or you can always ask all of your friends/family if they're getting new tires and take their old ones if they're the right size.

Post by **Chukidori** » Wed May 14, 2008 9:25 am

naed240sx wrote:
WERD.

One thing you didn't mention that I am sure you meant to:

Running crappy rear tires also sucks because they don't grip as well. You have to take corners wider and slower because of them, and often end up swinging so wide that you loose a good line. This problem has plagued me at my last few events, but I can't afford good tires yet, so I'm just trying to make it work.

Just like in racing, The symptom of going wide is early apexing. If oyu know you are going to be wide, You should start your drift earlier , therefore hitting the apex later in your drift.

Post by **arcadia** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:51 pm

do any here pay attention to tire wear rating? i usually get 400AA or better but just wonder if any bother with this?

Post by **drifter92** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 4:27 pm

I am tired of burning through used tires in just a few runs...I went to an event and ran through 2 sets of rear tires and 1 front TOO QUICKI am going to start getting only Federal SS595's, every pro-am guy there was using the federals and this guy in a beastin' a** 350Z only used 2 sets of Federal SS595 rear tires the whole day

Post by **Joe** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 4:59 pm

federals dont last any longer than most other tires.

federal and maxxis are both great, but the life isnt any greater.

Post by **wwstall** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 6:49 pm

im using yokohama Advan Neova (ADO7) up front and eco tires in the rear. The Neova is a great drift tire.(ADO7) are maiking way for the new (ADO8) which should be just as good.

Post by **s13_maJiK** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 12:50 pm

just make sure your running nice tires up front. Bad front tires with good rear tires=understeer like a b****

Last sunday I was running used s-drives on the front and new RT-615's on the rear and was understeering like a b**** even. Swapped the fronts and rear still ran into it a bit. Then switched to proxes up front and crap in the rear, worked like butter. I was real surprised I was understeering with the new RT's up front.

Post by **oki slide** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 6:57 pm

front: federal rsrrear:nankangs or achilles atrs. both throw a good amount of smoke

Post by **ashibah83** » Fri Sep 25, 2009 5:38 pm

Dunlop DZ-101 Star Spec all around......

Post by **Chris28** » Sat Sep 26, 2009 9:52 am

I just bought some nankangs for pretty cheap, but they are on my good wheels so I probably won't be drifting with them. My last set of federals lasted a while, about a year of street driving (a few burnouts lol) and then about 5 laps on the track.

Most people I know run Federal 595's.

Post by **drifter92** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 5:04 am

Joe wrote:federals dont last any longer than most other tires.

federal and maxxis are both great, but the life isnt any greater.

Compared to used tires, Federals aren't much more expensive and they last 3 or 4 times as long. I get used tires for $30 and they are always old and the tread tears away from the core in just a couple runs with 160HP, I had a Federal 595 and a Kunho Ecsta on a pair of wheels and the federal still had tread and the Kumho was showing cords.

The way i see it, even for the cost, new tires make your drifting easily consistent and easy to control your car.

For the front of the car, get some quality tires preferably low profile if you can and not a stock boo boo wheel.I recently ran some 17"x7" with used 225/45 tires and they were completely amazing compared to a 15"x6.5" stock wheel with a 195/60/15 that i used before.

Post by **starkos14** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 7:07 am

good points but remember, low pro tires are good to a point up front. a lot of guys are running too low pro tires on 18s up front and have lots if understeer issue. anything sticky and wide, up front is a must. i prefer 245/40/17(17x9 wheel) up front. never any problems with understeer.

Post by **drifter92** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 3:55 pm

i agree, some of the people i know that were at the last drift event had horrible understeer with 18's on a s14

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