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mofos at tirerack won't ship yoko's or hankooks. Dunlop it is!

The last quote I got for the Dunlop Direzza Z1 Star specs in Australia was between $360 and $400 a tyre if I remember correctly.

Tire rack had them at the time for $128 a tyre.

Add the $350 shipping and I was still miles ahead in savings.

Things may have changed though.

Not yet. It's $1185 landed from Tirerack for the set. Are they a much better tyre than say Federal RS-R's?

I believe the Federals are a UTQG 140 where as the Dunlops are 200, Ive never used Federals myself so I cannot compare.

The Hankooks are 140 and I found the Hankooks wear more than the Dunlops but the Hankooks are more grippy straight off where the Dunlops needed a lap to come good and did get a bit "greasy" after about 8 laps at Wakie.

Disclaimer: Im far from a expert in these things.

Thats a bugger though about not shipping the Hankooks, I myself may go back to the Star Specs.

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the ad08's are excellent and worth every cent

was running these on my 300kw+ r32 gtr and the grip and handling exceptional

reason y i am not running them as i have gone to 355 disks and need to run 18's

Just ordered x4 Nitto NT555's in 255 40 17 for $125ea in free delivery. 3 hours left for the sale at time of writing. Not sure how good they are but should be OK for 2nd set of rims.

http://www.ozzytyres.com.au/store/nitto-255-40r17-94w-nt555.html

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ES501's are a "Comfort" "silent" type tyre for people who value things like fuel economy.

Toyo Proxes4 seem like more of a performance tyre so should be comparable to Fed595, possibly better. For $170 they seem like worth trying.

Do a search on here, you should find plenty of good info.

Proxes 4 are not a UHP tyre in the way that the KU36 and 595s are. They are a good tyre, but they are nowhere near as soft in the compound. They have a treadwear rating of 300 vs the <200 numbers on most of the other tyres being discussed. That puts them in the same company as the FK452 and so on.

I've used both the Proxes 4 and FK452 on my R32 many years ago and the KU36s were like chalk and cheese in terms of sheer grip. I used to get up to 20k km out of FK452. Only get about 10k km out of KU36. They are in a different world.

Dunno what the nitto invos are worth in a 17 but they are a great street tyre loads of grip and VERY quiet. If you did get 595's make sure you get the Z soft compound 1's think the tread wear is 220 cos the taxi spec hard compound 1's are crap!

I've used Toyo Proxes 4 and find them some what similar in performance to a cheaper Kumho KU31 (half the price of the Toyos).

Mick, I jelly it says you haz Evo 9 :)

Haha yeah Johnny its such a blast to drive! Not near as quick as my 33 BUT I'm working on that :) the evo has Dunlop SP maxx tyres on it and they are quite a good tyre I've found. Bit noisier than the invos but they are quite good in the wet and the dry.

I've driven a few of EVOs my mates own.. they're fun to drive, but you do miss the fighting nature of the car (that being an uncontrollable RWD) :)

You'll probably leave SAU and only be on OzEvo all day long

Yeah i will see how the evo feels when i wind it up to 300+kw like i did with the skyline lol :woot:

But no never the SAU community is far better than the evo crowd :whistling:

I've driven a few of EVOs my mates own.. they're fun to drive, but you do miss the fighting nature of the car (that being an uncontrollable RWD) :)

You'll probably leave SAU and only be on OzEvo all day long

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