Tyres For Drag/street

[Country Cruzin]

Wanna go back to the drags but only got chinese tyres which also are old n hard.

But need some new tyres, better quality an newer, was considering some KU36's.

first time i went to willowbank ran some falken 452's an managed a best of 1.59 60ft. would ku36's give better traction? Problem i can see is i dont know how to warm the tyres, so would cold ku36's be any grippier then falken 452's?

as i noticed last time as it got latter in the nite n cooler my 60ft times were slowly getting worse, tho mph was goin up so the times stayed the same (11.7)

also is there an easy way to warm ur tyres in an 33gtr?

any experience or advice/tips would be greatly appreaciated =)

[R31Nismoid]

If it's a relatively stock GTR - 1.60 for street tyres is pretty reasonable. You'd struggle to get much better on street tyres, maybe 1.5. Tyres aren't 'as important' as you don't really have the power to turn them (if its stock-ish).

No easy way on a R33 GTR to warm tyres, just drop the pressures down to around 20-22psi, avoid the wet ground for burnout start and away you go.

[Country Cruzin]

Has 420hp atw (think thats bit over 300kwatw) about 40hp more then when i was there the first time, seen a couple gtr's one with bout 320hpatw an one with 460hp that couldnt get traction first i think had pretty cheap rubber but the 460hp one had fairly mid range 265 rubber (cant remember brand) an couldnt get traction till 2nd gear an started to brake traction again an only managed a 12.4 maybe 12.3

just know every 1/10of a second off the 60ft is worth a fair bit more at the end... tho my original goal was to crack 200km/h at the end of the strip, 60ft might not count much towards that (top speed so far was 189km/h @ 380hp atw)

tho a quick 1/4 mile slip quietens the supercharged commordore boys kw bragging!

[Ryan1200]

To get some heat in the tyres how about starting the car while rolling so it goes into 2wd limp mode and do a 'short' burnout then switch the engine off then on then complete the pass?

[zebra]

Tbh I wouldn't really worry about warming street tyres

It doesn't take much to get them all mushy and slippery

I would try a couple of runs just driving around the water box and see how it goes

[Country Cruzin]

yer i always went around the water, but there was a definate change in 60ft times as the air got cooler, an the tryes cooled down, first runs tyres were still a lil warm from driving there, latter runs the car had been sitting still for a fair while.

so do u think ku36's or a simalar tyre would get beta grip when cold then a normal street tyre?, plz recommend a different tyre if u think they're beta, but the tyres need to be drivin on the street, on a daily basis so dont want "drag" only tyres. i guess i could put it into limp mode.. but would be a lil annoying tho would be worth a go...

[Country Cruzin]

yer found the KU36'pretty useless at the drags best i got out of them was a 1.75 60ft with 20psi in the rear an 25 in the front