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I think what Steve-SST is trying to say is that the times he did are done on regular street tyres that about 90% of skyline owners would use. NOT semi-slick soft compound nitto's.

To me his times are more impressive because if by going by SydneyKids posts he said his nittos would attribute to 0.5second better pass over the 1/4. I think he is also trying to say that tyres you use for regular street driving wont have the same grip as the nittos.

Now we all know that the nittos are classes and accepted as street legal tyres. Thats all well and good, but just think about the fast times that Steve and his cars are running without the assistance of semi-slick soft compound tyres. It impresses me.

I think another GTR doing impressive times on 'normal' street tyres is the Brisbane Street Machines 32 GTR that ran with Federal road tyres. *cant remember its time off the top of my head, but it was damn quick

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I think another GTR doing impressive times on  'normal' street tyres is the Brisbane Street Machines 32 GTR that ran with Federal road tyres. *cant remember its time off the top of my head, but it was damn quick

Yep its another very fast GTR but sort of makes me wonder how it can be called a street anything even using Federal tyres when all it runs is C16 fuel, the inside of the exhaust is as white as my arse hahaha :)

Hmmm... it's interesting to note what each of us considers a "street tyre".

I personally think that NT555R Nittos ARE a true street tyre. I use them on the rear as my daily driven rubber. I also use RE540S's as my everyday rubber on the front. Both of these are true road legal radial tyres that anyone of us can use all day everyday. Sure, they may well give a grip advantage over non semi-comp rubber, but the same can be said of top-of-the-range Bridgestone S03 and the like vs. POS retreads!

IMHO if it's a treaded radial that is road legal in Australia it IS a "street tyre" A cross-ply slick or semi-slick (e.g Mickey Thompson ET Street) is NOT a street tyre.

whatsisname

mate I agree with you 100% I also use Nittos 555R as my everyday tyres, to me its really no different then changing suspension or upgrading your turbo you do it or use them to go faster but are the cars using different suspension or other modifications not true street cars aswell?

Its like because we're smart enough to take advantage of a good grippy tyre we're cheating hahaha I think its silly

My definition of street tyre, have a look at the cheap and nasty $140 a corner tyre i use. :Oops:

Anything that costs more then the cheapest Nankang is a race tyre :)

I have only ever used the cheapest Falken (451s or something) or D01J/RE55... nothing in betwwen. Ill have an accident one day then i will see the point of having a nice $300 road tyre. :Oops:

LOOKSHUREEE!!!! You need to get up at 2 in the morning, half an hour before you go te bed and lick road clean wit toong!

Ahem!

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unlike the screamer pipe and most likely the other 20 modifications on most of our cars that are running the times :)

Screamer pipes? Oh you mean the people running the times with bigger turbos.... okay :D

Adrian

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i'm sure there a heap of things we all do or use that technically make us not a true street car

I don't have a TRUE street car because I use or have used:

1/ Nittos

2/ Nitrous

3/ VHT On the track

4/ A level drag strip

5/ Buster as my pit bitch

As you can see, I am a dirty friggin cheaterer!!!

Adrian

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