hey just wondering what are some of the tires you guys are running on high whp cars, 500 whp range. just want to know whos using what out there and how its working out for them thanks.

tire size and type of tire would be great thanks.

I KNOW THIS ISNT QUITE THE SECTION FOR THIS BUT THERES LIKE NOTHING IN THE TIRE SECTION.

and yes i searched,

 

This is the perfect place for your question. You searched, so no worries. I can't really offer you anything at the moment, but i'm interested to see what kind of answers you get. I'm shooting for ~450whp when i dyno Friday so i'll probably be in the same situation. I'm currently running BFG Drag Radials

 

drag racing forum might be able to answer this question

 

BFG DR's will be trashed within a week with 500 hp on the street. At higher boost levels I use M&H dot's (235/70/15). The car pulls hard in every gear and tracks straight...good tread life too. They are bias ply though. MT dr's are nice too.

 

I switched from BFG 225/50 15s to the same size Mickey Thompson and was able to use 3rd gear at a 340whp setting. With the BFGs it was spinning the tires. It holds noticeably better also @ the 540whp setting but 3rd is pretty loose. Changing to boost by gear - Hondata 300.

 

Are u wanting to know for street/track, or track only?
I have MT 26x10x15 slicks for the track and nittos 555r for street/dyno.. MT and MH both make a good DR.

 

My car have 426whp and I use toyo R888 235/40/17 and they work for me

 

On the street been running bfg 225/50/15 drag radial and they will occationally hook 2nd gear on spring pressure (a bit over 400whp) if you heat them up, has to be on good concrete though, blacktop is a joke. 3rd gear I start on spring pressure and ramp up a couple psi pretty quickly after, hooks all of it on any decent road. 4th gear it will hook anything you throw at it thus far.

I am changing to a m/t as I hear they work better to see if I can get 2nd gear to hook more consistantly.

Oh and I run about 18psi-20psi warm in the tires... little low for driving on the street all the time like that. I dont daily my car though, cruise it and occationally hit up meets.

 

Depending on what front end I decide to run on my car ill be using the M/T 235/60/15 or the 255/50/16, my new corn tune should be deep in the 600hp range so I am going to need all the rubber I can get.

Thats the truth, I got 200ish miles out of mine, and I could still blaze them in 4th gear ramping the boost from WG pressure to 20psi.

I tried all different pressures all the way down to 15psi and they still spun but with a passenger in the car I could get the car to haze 3rd and hook 4th off WG (450ish)

 

Yea I dont know what to think, like if its just luck or something lately. Dont get me wrong its not ideal and hooking well every time, it takes a little bit of doing to get it to work but its definately better than my experience with these BFG's to date.

Honestly I had such a hard time with these tires never hooking in 2nd and part of 3rd, it was a HUGE issue at one point. I mean I can only run as low as the spring which is a 1bar (bit over 400), so I could not take any more power out.

Recently changed some things. Brought it 3/4 inch more in back ride height and droped pressure to 18 warm... did a little burnout to get em hot, car would hook 2nd on the concrete... it caught me by suprise to be truthful. Even when you dont do a burnout its still pulling and fighting on the verge of traction... you can pedal it a little and still get partially hooked up decent with a little throttle control. The bad though is I have to watch the 1-2 shift... too fast of a shift, it will blow right through the tire. I have to time it just right, let it nose over a little and back into it. So its not perfect like I said I did not mean to sound like it is, still progress to be made.

Way better than before though, it use to be like ice... second I would hit boost and it would shoot straight for redline in an instant.

I think another couple suspension changes and maybe a tire change to m/t or m&h's should make some more headway on it. BTW this is a full interior 4dr accord.

 

hey thanks for the reply's. yea i was was more wondering what you guys are using on the street. iam gonna go with 15's dont know whats size and what tire to go with yet. thanks for the replys. keep posting if you got something diffrent or got any tips thanks.

 

i have hankook rs2 205/45/16. very nice tire. with 300whp+ tho forget about straight line traction.

 

Everyone in this thread is talking about street tires, you need large DR's (225/50 and up) to hook large power on the street.

 

azenis rt615 215 all around on my civic ~300whp for DD
azenis rt615 235 rear on my S..not tuned yet, but i don't expect it to get much traction at all with 600whp on the streets

 

ive tried them all

225/50/15 mickey thompson dr's....youll thank me later.

last 10 times longer and hook 10 times better. i guess what makes them last longer is that im not spinning the hell out of them since they actually hook up.

 

Toyo slicks: 25x9-15
Excellent traction, and high/top end stability.

 

i believe the thread is about street tires (aka not slicks), although i have ran slicks on tehs treet from time to time

 

just curious, would there be any benefit from running like a 14" rim over a 15" rim if the tire size (tall) was the same? more side wall?

 

hey thanks for the replies guys, the m/t on top the look like they should get the joob done. anybody else running something diffrent thats seems to be working out for them post it up.

thanks

 

I would think it would help some, as long as you had enough air let out of them to increase the contact patch. I think the downsides would be a much "floatier" feeling while driving pending the other measurments of the tire.

 

Look into the Hoosier d.o.t. drag radial they have out.

 

tried them. like i said ive tried every drag radial there is. hoosiers where better than bfgs when they were new but traction sucked on them once you got a few miles on them. and they were out real fast just like bfg's.. i would wear them all out from just spinning on the hwy! my mt's ive had for awhile hook the BEST and they still look brand new, i truly cant believe them. im just happy to have a tire now that hooks up and doesnt wear down to cords in 3 weeks.

 

I aquired a set of mt 225's when I got my car. the were pretty much worn down to a slick. And I sware to god they probably are stickier now then they were when I first aquired them. When driving you can hear it pick up a lot of rocks like slickes do at the track.

 

yup mine do that new...without even heating them up. just making a pass down the street and they are stickier than hell.

 

M&H 235 60 15... better than all mentioned