Race Tyres for Motorkahna's and drags.

[R33_Cam]

what type of race tyres are used and where to get some from, for mainly motorkahna's but drags aswell, i have been told to use Dunlops, but does anyone have any ideas/knowledge of what to use.

or if anyone has second hand ones that they wanna get rid of with fairly good tread to fit standard skyline rims (ie:16" rims)

Cam

[rev210]

Originally posted by R33_Cam

what type of race tyres are used and where to get some from, for mainly motorkahna's but drags aswell, i have been told to use Dunlops, but does anyone have any ideas/knowledge of what to use.

or if anyone has second hand ones that they wanna get rid of with fairly good tread to fit standard skyline rims (ie:16" rims)

Cam

You need two completely different types of tyre.

For going around corners the tyres you need will have:

*stiff sidewalls / low profile?

*Soft rubber compound

*Tyre width will be close to equal to rim width, ie: 205s on a 7inch / 225 on an 8 inch.

For the drags:

* soft compound that gets 'tacky' when heated

* Sidewalls that flex well ( usually tallish profile).

* not so strict on tyre and rim width ,more rubber contact the better.

For the drags, I'd try and find a couple of 14/15inch rims because you can get a range of street/strip tyres for those sizes to meet your budget. Otherwise 16inch + and you are looking at $300+ a corner for BFG drag radial TAs.

[optical]

if you have the coin get some advan semi slicks. they hook up well and have stiff sidewalls (the track ones)

i used them on the front of my sil at one trackevent and the turn in was very impressive. tho they seemed to tramline a fair bit