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Using street legal racing slicks on your daily driver?

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Heat cycles require heat and they don't heat up on the street, i've driven them on the street and they're cool to the touch at the end. A couple runs on an autocross course and then they'll heat up, but not on the street.
 
shabby said:
Heat cycles require heat and they don't heat up on the street, i've driven them on the street and they're cool to the touch at the end. A couple runs on an autocross course and then they'll heat up, but not on the street.
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Driving them at highway speeds heats them up enough.
 
Apex said:
Driving them at highway speeds heats them up enough.
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Which tire is this? Surely its not a kumho or hoosier since they themselves told me that driving them on the highway doesn't impact tread life/performance at all before i purchased my tires.
 
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Maybe I wasn't clear in my OP but I'm not thinking of doing this nor would I ever plan to, I was just curious. :-|
 
Gillbot said:
Nittos are not a drag radial, they are more of a sticky street tire IMHO. They are easily outclassed by ANY drag radial out there.
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Pretty much but they are about the best thing you can get and still have a fighting chance in the rain.
 
shabby said:
Which tire is this? Surely its not a kumho or hoosier since they themselves told me that driving them on the highway doesn't impact tread life/performance at all before i purchased my tires.
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The Hoosier A6. Hits operating temp at 140 degrees F, a full 30-60 degrees below their R6 or practically any other roadcourse tire.
 
Gillbot said:
My MT's and BFG's did just as well in the rain. The only advantage (IMHO) of the Nittos is treadlife.
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Interesting. Most people I've spoke made it pretty clear that you are screwed in the rain with MT/Hoosiers (stories of sliding sideways down the bend in the freeway at 25 mph, etc). I'm probably going to try out MTs this summer and play around with them on the street now that this car has become a weekend car. The Nittos are great as a daily driver street tire, but still don't hook for jack. I have Falken 452 street tires right now, and they did hook pretty good with a rolling start for a street tire for the first 10k miles when they were new, now they just light up in any gear.
 
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exdeath said:
Interesting. Most people I've spoke made it pretty clear that you are screwed in the rain with MT/Hoosiers (stories of sliding sideways down the bend in the freeway at 25 mph, etc). I'm probably going to try out MTs this summer and play around with them on the street now that this car has become a weekend car. The Nittos are great as a daily driver street tire, but still don't hook for jack. I have Falken 452 street tires right now, and they did hook pretty good with a rolling start for a street tire for the first 10k miles when they were new, now they just light up in any gear.
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Oh, don't get me wrong, I agree 100%. BUT, any of the DR's are about equal in the rain and if you aren't crazy they will work just as well as any other "bald" or heavily worn tire.
 
Gillbot said:
Oh, don't get me wrong, I agree 100%. BUT, any of the DR's are about equal in the rain and if you aren't crazy they will work just as well as any other "bald" or heavily worn tire.
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The catch 22. If you're not crazy, you're not running them in the rain. But if you want to run them in the rain, it's okay as long as you're not crazy.
 
Apex said:
Not currently, though I've run on them, and have plenty of customers with multiple sets as well.
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And have you driven them on the street at all? If you have you'd notice that they don't warm up at all, once these tires get warm they pick up every piece of debris on the road. I have to wipe the debris off the tires after every run, i drove 50km to an event once and there was barely anything on them... meaning they didn't warm up at all even at highway speeds.
 
Demon-Xanth said:
The catch 22. If you're not crazy, you're not running them in the rain. But if you want to run them in the rain, it's okay as long as you're not crazy.
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I never run mine intentionally but getting caught in a downpour at 70MPH on the interstate with full slicks-n-skinnies is interesting. 😱
 
I always thought it'd be fun to get some beater FWD hatchbacks, put aquatreads on the front and slicks on the rear and go around a wetted down track.
 
shabby said:
And have you driven them on the street at all? If you have you'd notice that they don't warm up at all, once these tires get warm they pick up every piece of debris on the road. I have to wipe the debris off the tires after every run, i drove 50km to an event once and there was barely anything on them... meaning they didn't warm up at all even at highway speeds.
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Yeah, I have, though measured in hundreds of miles instead of thousands like the others. I found they warmed much like other DOT-R tires given identical vehicle weight, alignment, and inflation pressure. There are so many variables to consider though, your experience is just as valid.
 
What ones r better to have the Mickey t street slicks or nittos I am wanting to put a set on my 85 Chevy pic up its going to be a every day driver to that's y I wanting to know what ones r good to have an what one hook better it has a 350 with a smaill cam heads have been shaved port and polished and it has 373 gears with a 2700 stall If that helps y'all any
 
Rickybobby1985 said:
What ones r better to have the Mickey t street slicks or nittos I am wanting to put a set on my 85 Chevy pic up its going to be a every day driver to that's y I wanting to know what ones r good to have an what one hook better it has a 350 with a smaill cam heads have been shaved port and polished and it has 373 gears with a 2700 stall If that helps y'all any
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Nitto what?
 
Had a friend who tried this on his trailblazer ss. Rained one day on his way home from work and he ended up with a totaled tbss stuck to a tree. I wouldn't recommend it.
 
cheezmunky said:
Had a friend who tried this on his trailblazer ss. Rained one day on his way home from work and he ended up with a totaled tbss stuck to a tree. I wouldn't recommend it.
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Damn. I think about that happening everyday I'm driving and its perfectly sunny but raining. Oh Florida weather.
 
does anyone else find it annoying when 2 year old threads get resurrected by first posters not offering free ipads?
 
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