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Adam,

It's more the case that people farkup their standard street cars handling with half baked ideas re: tyres and suspension. They are often putting mismatched parts together, assuming that if itsenough for a race car its good enought for their car (and will make it faster).

Very low profile tyres are more a cosmetic gimmic than an actual performance enhancer. At best it does nothing and at worst it just doesn't provide the feel and grip of a little taller profile.

I have driven a couple of skylines with coil overs and wider aftermarket rims and tyres and can only say that most would not keep up with my stockie aound corners.

The atessa system or any 4wd helps no argument, but the concept of sidewal flex (ideally on tyres designed to do this) is just as important irrespective. GTR's will go quicker on slicks and that is the model of sidewall flex you try to copy with street tyres for the drags.

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Originally posted by KILLER-T

Hi ya Brett if you are buyin the re540s for the drags then dont bother the side walls are way to hard to get any advantage from them on the 1/4 mile but for a track tyre they would be great.I cant tell you what they are like in the wet but on a dry road the are the best thing i have used.The only thing i dont like about them is the amount of road noise they make

Thats his excuse for poor drag times :P

I thought RE540's were sticky maybe me and you shoul swap i have some rippers ;)

:bahaha:

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Originally posted by XRW

Gts its more that 540's react to the VHT and do the opsite and become more skatey than they do grippy..

I don't know who told you that but, it sounds like bulldust. Or perhaps they meant doesn't become as sticky as other tyres or even 'they are sticky to start with and the vht doesn't add much extra'.

Vht makes rubber compound tyres 'sticky' even tyres with silicone content. We found some tyres better than others in terms of responding to VHT (they all got more sticky tho'). Back in the days when you rigged a squirter bottle over the rear tyres so the officials couldn't see it when you did the burnout on street meet days (they still seem to skim on track treatment these days too).

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