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Hi besides the Nittos and BF goodrich tyres are there any other good drag radial tyres avaliable, looking at the HPI list the BFG are becoming the leaders in the rwd classes.

Currently im looking at getting the BFG comp t/a in 255/50/16 just looking for some other options that are avaliable locally in a 16'' preferably

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I think you can get Hoosiers in a 17" but that doesnt help much and i am not sure where they come from :P

BF's are newer and i am sure they benefit from more development. The 60's tend to show it.

I am more than happy with my Nittos. Can't wait to see how the new 275's go this saturday!

Adrian

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MT Et streets are not in the HPI rules are they? keir wilsons car isnt listed with his 8sec pass but there are BFGs on the list, i was going to go for something like the ets but when the BFGs are as good as they seem and still qualify for the HPI llist they seen better

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MT ET Streets are cross-ply. They're not allowed under the HPI rules. They have to be radials. ET Street's are just a slick with a few pissy little lines on them! Nittos/BFG radials look like conventional road tyres.

Nittos aren't too bad in the wet too, so I found out yesterday. On 10 pounds boost mind you.

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There were plenty of historic muslce cars that came factory equiped with crossply tyres. So I reckon excluding them from the street tyre class is dumb. What about cars with modified panels or wheel tubs or instant coffee machines or an aftermarket albatros?

Go fast or go home.

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Yep I think they were trying to copy the street tyre class in Japan, I don't think its that silly as it keeps the mini tubbed rotors out of the class and is as close as you'll get to a real street trim class for imports

And with the times and 60ft's people are pulling off with Radial tyres now, I don't really think it causes to big a problem if your cars set up right

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Yep I think they were trying to copy the street tyre class in Japan, I don't think its that silly as it keeps the mini tubbed rotors out of the class and is as close as you'll get to a real street trim class for imports

And with the times and 60ft's people are pulling off with Radial tyres now, I don't really think it causes to big a problem if your cars set up right

It doesn't make sense at all.

I don't see why we need to copy anything japan does with regards to rules either.

As for keeping it as close to a 'real street trim class for imports' there is no substance behind that at all. It's all too subjective. I'd like to know what excludes these tyres from being called street trim appart from the 'japs don't do it' argument.

I guess if you care what HPI publish you can try to make it into their list following the jap way. To each thier own. I personally care more about going quick than whether a Magazine I don't read publishes my time. Things change so maybe HPI will make the list more interesting by opening it up to all street tyres one day, I mean part of chasing the better times with better tyres is about safety too.

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There's a fugen huge difference btw an ET Street and a Nitto NT555R! I have driven through all manner of shitty wet weather with my Nittos and they are just as good as any other road tyre I've used in recent times. Stuffed if I'd try doing it on ET Streets! A couple of pissy little lines aren't what I'd call tread. Hence ET's aren't a road tyre in my book.

I'd say you'd have a fair chance of the law wanting to know all about your ET Streets too. By comparision Nittos are the most conventional looking road rubber out of all the semi-comps.

ET Streets - from the land of road legal Nitrous and drag slicks with grooves :)

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I dont call ET streets a street tyre. If a cop pulled you over with them on, try and expalin them to him! Plus I doubt they would be any good in the wet.

What about the Sportsman Pro's?

1.56 60ft with an 8" wide sportsman pro. 460hp at flywheel. Picks up the front left on take off. Not a skyline, but standard setup RWD (no four-link, tubs etc)

Plenty of tread (ugly looking read though), and pretty good in the wet.

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What about the Sportsman Pro's?

SERIOUSLY considered these tyres but wanted to go a pair of radials first and then just run slicks.

Look like the business for sure. Too soft to drive regularly on the road though and expect decent mileage.

Adrian

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So you really consider a Mickey Thompson ET Street a street tyre you could drive around on every day of the week?

You could but, like most very soft compound tyres it will cost a few dollars to support the habit plus they are crap for wet weather and really do their best job going straight.

Friends and I have in the past driven around the streets on them, so there you go.Got pulled over by the cops in a hot rod with a set of Mickey T's on the back once and they mentioned the tread getting a bit low to us but, didn't have a problem with them. Also, I don't think you need to look too far to see some of the guys at the street meet drags who actually will drive home on them.

I think if you only want to have one set of rims and tyres then you must compromise a little. It is this case that makes the Mickey T's and others a bad choice for many. Having said that by definition they are a road tyre, I know of enough cars that drive on them (even if it is only a sunny sunday) for me to accept a beating by someone running these tyres without a winge about ' ooh it's not fair you cheated becasue they aren't real street tyres...nah nah nah..'

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Ahh well lucky most of us on the forum seem happy with the HPI rules, no matter how silly it seems to others and with some of the 60ft's I've seen from the rwd imports 1.6-1.7 I really don't think it will hold anyone back unless they want a reason to whinge or an excuse as to why it didn't happen for them, In short if there car is set us right and they have the power they claim they do a radial tyre will do fine :)

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