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Well ow that you guys helped me sort out my brake problem now it's time to turn to tires. I'm a year into HPDE and love it. In that time in started with the factory all season tires, then ran MPSS, and finally ended with R888s.
The all season of course were terrible. The MPSS were awesome until I started pushing hard and the weather got hot. With the driving I was doing at that time it felt like they never even wore. Of course I wanted more so I got some 18x10 from Blowfish and ran Tokyo R888s. Now I've only had three days on them but I really like them. The do slide a little when hot but to my style very predicable and can really control oversteer with the throttle.
Here's where I'm stuck. These tires after three days look like this.
As you can see the midline tread is almost to the wear bar. These are 295/30/18s. Ideally I'd like a little taller tire because I run out of gear too often. Either way I'm not sure how much like they have and I'm starting to wonder if I should just start buying up take off slicks. It seems like it would be a better way to go.
What has your progression been? What would you advise? Keep the R compounds or go to take off slicks?
Thanks
Jake
The all season of course were terrible. The MPSS were awesome until I started pushing hard and the weather got hot. With the driving I was doing at that time it felt like they never even wore. Of course I wanted more so I got some 18x10 from Blowfish and ran Tokyo R888s. Now I've only had three days on them but I really like them. The do slide a little when hot but to my style very predicable and can really control oversteer with the throttle.
Here's where I'm stuck. These tires after three days look like this.
As you can see the midline tread is almost to the wear bar. These are 295/30/18s. Ideally I'd like a little taller tire because I run out of gear too often. Either way I'm not sure how much like they have and I'm starting to wonder if I should just start buying up take off slicks. It seems like it would be a better way to go.
What has your progression been? What would you advise? Keep the R compounds or go to take off slicks?
Thanks
Jake