What Brands Make A Decent Road - Semi Slick

[Cain]

Hello all, just currently finishing off my can and i need some new tyres to go with my bilstien pss9 coilovers and my Project Mu BBK,

what im after are not semi slicks, but the road tyre that is close, for some reason 615 comes to my head and RS but i cant remeber the brands and just searching thoese numbers dont help very well.

Thanks

[djr81]

Hello all, just currently finishing off my can and i need some new tyres to go with my bilstien pss9 coilovers and my Project Mu BBK,

what im after are not semi slicks, but the road tyre that is close, for some reason 615 comes to my head and RS but i cant remeber the brands and just searching thoese numbers dont help very well.

Thanks

What you are thinking of are Falken & Federal tyres.

But for my 10 cents worth it is not worth the effort of attempting to get half pregnant. Either get some R compounds (proper ones) or go with a street tyre. Toyo make a civilised R compound (RA1).

The Falken/Federals combine stiff sidewalls with not much tread and not much grip. So you get the downsides of an R compound (bad ride, poor tyre life, torrents of road noise) without the upside (nose bleed grip).

[BHDave]

They really aren't a sensible street tyre (even though i actually have RS fronts and rt215 rears). If your car is a daily driver you should consider something a bit better wearing or have a big tyre budget.

They have decent tread depth (around 8mm from memory vs a proper semi at around 5mm), but they wear about 3 times faster than a regular performance road tyre. The grip is better than a regular performance tyre, but not 3 times better, and they cost as much as proper semis (the rs anyway).

That said, if you plan to do skid pan or hill climb or motorkhana type stuff and don't want to dick about changing tyres then i think they are a good choice as they don't need warming as much as proper semis. I still put semis on for the track, unless it's wet where i leave the street tyres on.

[STATUS]

TOYO R1R is the best street semi i have used, likes the wet and the dry.

We use the 888 on the race car and they are spot on but they are too track orientated for a daily much like RE55 they are not your best friend on a cold wet day.

http://marktg.toyotires.com/file/30251.pdf

http://www.jdm-option.com/eng/parts/05_12/r1r.html

[hrd-hr30]

they look alright - do they come in genuine semi slick compounds like the 888 or are they more like the 595RS & Azenis?

ie what's their UTQG?

[Downforce]

Continental Competizion C1's go alright in the wet and dry , they are 80-A-A UTQG

[siksII]

TOYO R1R is the best street semi i have used, likes the wet and the dry.

http://www.jdm-option.com/eng/parts/05_12/r1r.html

I believe the Toyo R1R was discontinued, if not do you know where to buy them from?

[JAGR33]

I use Pirelli P-ZERO CORSA's for the street, awesome performance in the wet and dry.,

Not cheap though....

[STATUS]

I believe the Toyo R1R was discontinued, if not do you know where to buy them from?

definatley not discontinued.

140 AA A UTQG

[siksII]

definatley not discontinued.

140 AA A UTQG

I mean discontinued as in Toyo might have stopped selling them in Australia...I was keen to get my hands on these a while back and couldnt buy them, local motorsport tyre shops said they stopped selling them.

If that is not the case now where you can buy them?

[Beer Baron]

Yokohama Advan AD07 are a pretty good 'fast road' tyre.

[Kaido_RR]

Potenza RE01-R but you will have a hard time finding them in australia