This years build is complete- but what tires to run??

phunk

The NT05R is a decent tire and might do the trick.

If you really want to win, get your car aligned and take all the camber out of the back. It cambers a lot more when the suspension compresses, so you want to be as close to zero as you are willing to go. If you wanted to win at any cost, you would even put the camber a hair positive so that it zeros out when you launch. But that will look dumb so you will have to drive straight to the alignment shop to set it back after the race LOL.

I am no tire expert, but heres my experience: these R compound street tires seem like they lose a lot of their stickiness after several heat cycles. I will put them on and the car hooks up decent for a 7-10 days and then it starts falling off and then 2-3 weeks later its barely any better than a normal tire. Maybe something else is going on, but I think it has something to do with heat cycles on the tires.

So next time I get some R compound street tires, I am only going to use them for racing, and not daily drive on them.

Also, dont be afraid to put the tire pressure down low. Just for a drag race, you will find it to hook up better below 20psi. Obviously fill back up soon after the race and dont take turns fast. Do several practice runs exactly how you will race. Even on a dedicated drag tire, I wasted several passes at the strip not hooking up until I finally started trying the pressure down much lower. I think I was like 18psi IIRC before I finally got a good 60' that killed my clutch.

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