Looking To Borrow Wheels / Tyres To Take My R34 Gtr To Wsid

[nomnomv8]

Hi,

As title states I am looking for someone who is willing to let me borrow their set of wheels (w/ grippy tyres) to take my R34 GTR for her first run down the strip

Slicks / Semi's will be prefered and with some luck and sticky tyres I get booted off after 1 run with a 10.xx (unlikely as its my first time attending with her but fingers crossed) Either way being an AWD and incapable of frying them before the Christmas tree your tyres will not go through much abuse at all.

Happy to pick the wheels up and drop them off or even change them on at the track and take them back off when I leave if you decide to come past WSID and watch/participate.

In saying that I am ofcourse willing to compensate anyone nice enough to lend me the tyres with $$$ or beer/skotch/strippers/whatever - which ever they prefer

Customary picture of car attached below, PM if anyone has any offers

Cheers !!

[Pezhead]

If you can't fry the tyres then doubt you'll get a 10. Also getting a good launch takes a bit more than you might think. Just take your street tyres and run them down to about 28psi.

A 300kw car with an ok launch will run high 11's to low 12's. With a fantastic launch, which takes longer than you might think to muster, 300kw will get you to low-mid 11's. Caveat emptor of course is that torque and area of the power curve is what really affects the variance in times at the same power levels.

Turn your boost controller down and make a few runs. If you are getting 60 ft times of 1.6 or better then you're ready to turn it up.

[nomnomv8]

By fry i implied sitting it on the brakes which I obviously cant do she definately has a potential for a high 10 though with sticky tyres based on what I have seen and experienced in the past.

Would take my street tyres down but im running 275's front and back on 19 x 10.5" wheels which are absolutely hopeless for drags

[SiR_RB]

Someone must have a set to lend ! Nothing better then seeing a Gtr full song down the quarter

[vorse]

lol put your tyres up then

Edited November 24, 2012 by vorse

[SiR_RB]

Can't cos il be going with him on Wednesday !

[nomnomv8]

Fail weather today for runs and even bigger fail on trying to find some bloody tyres -_-

[Owgasm]

Get some r33 Gtr wheels and decent rubber for future meets.

[nomnomv8]

Get some r33 Gtr wheels and decent rubber for future meets.

Ive can get my hands on a spare set of R33 GTR wheels with crap rubber on them however im going for a 10.x in street trim to get booted off and never go back hence cant justify spending >$1000 on wrapping them with good rubber if their only gona see 2 or so passes down the quater (1 on low boost, 1 on high).

Not intending on doing any track days with this car either so tyres/rims will be redundant after the runs down the quater

[numleg]

Don't be a girl, run it with the 19's on.

My wagon ran 12.3 with 19's, 245 rubber and less power.

[nomnomv8]

Don't be a girl, run it with the 19's on.

My wagon ran 12.3 with 19's, 245 rubber and less power.

I'm confident it will get 11s all day every day with stuff all effort even with the 19's.

I'm not after 11s though I'm after a 10. I can't see the point of putting the driveline through unnecessary shock by launching the tits off it with 10.5" 275/35/19 front and back when I know it won't get the desired time I'm after.

[Calsonic14U]

I think the best bet is to do what alot of us do and just run on your street tires and prove how fast your car is in a "street trim". Set a base time for the car then next time run it with semi and see how little or no difference the tires make. My GTsT with half your power ran a 14.2 and i was just happy to have a top speed run. If you can drive properly you can avoid unecessary drive train strain no matter what tires you run. Also if your car is street registered and not in super street class you must run a street legal radial tire so some semi/full slicks are not aloud.

[Noy]

I took my 34 out to for the first time a couple of months ago and run on 19's even kept 38psi in them.

285/35/19 Federal RPM's

It's all about going out for fun, my 34 is factory stock standard and the clutch wasn't up for it..

[nomnomv8]

I think the best bet is to do what alot of us do and just run on your street tires and prove how fast your car is in a "street trim". Set a base time for the car then next time run it with semi and see how little or no difference the tires make. My GTsT with half your power ran a 14.2 and i was just happy to have a top speed run. If you can drive properly you can avoid unecessary drive train strain no matter what tires you run. Also if your car is street registered and not in super street class you must run a street legal radial tire so some semi/full slicks are not aloud.

Cheers for the advice mate, might just go and give her a blast and see which end of the 11's scale she comes home to with the rubbish tyres on atm. Definately investing in a set of Micky T's ET Street Radials on the bucket list for Christmas

I took my 34 out to for the first time a couple of months ago and run on 19's even kept 38psi in them.

285/35/19 Federal RPM's

It's all about going out for fun, my 34 is factory stock standard and the clutch wasn't up for it..

Believe it or not I had a standard clutch holding up ~340awkw at one point and went strong for a good 4-5 months until it finally went pop (quiet literally the pressue plate shattered). Got the Nismo C-spec twin atm and its on a totally different ball game but standard clutch for up to 270kw in my experience was bloody awesome !

Ps how did you go ?

[Ghostrider]

I used to have an MX83 Cressida with a 1UZFE V8 conversion and I went out with SAU/V8 Owners day and I was running 15.5 all day long coming off the line at idle on stock tyres and it took me over 3 months of practice to run a 14.709 and I had 156Kw at the wheels, LSD, 245/45 x 16 Toyo TEO Plus road tyres @ 24psi and for this I had the car up onto 2300rpm to come off the line.

It aint so simple as I thought.

I never ran it again after that, just wanted to prove I could do something with it and I was pretty impressed with the look on the face of the HSV driver in the next lane that did a 14.9??

Sold the car on to someone that sorta stuffed it for mine.

Now my newest toy climbs mountains lol

Cheers, D

[Noy]

Believe it or not I had a standard clutch holding up ~340awkw at one point and went strong for a good 4-5 months until it finally went pop (quiet literally the pressue plate shattered). Got the Nismo C-spec twin atm and its on a totally different ball game but standard clutch for up to 270kw in my experience was bloody awesome !

Ps how did you go ?

1st run was 14.1 @ 104mph then clutch just got worse, come back next day for eliminations and went 13.7 @ 90mph.. poor clutch didn't cut it and I pretty much rolled over the line for that pass..

My Nismo Coppermix twin Comp clutch gets put in next week and I'll head back out and see how it goes before swapping out the twins for a new 6262 setup.