Heat Treatments Drag GTR Update

[ATCO]

For what its worth I ran MT ET's for a couple of years then swapped to the Hoosier Street Radial. I would agree with the comments about the Nitto's.

With regard to MT and Hoosier, my 'feel' was that grip from both tyres was comparable there was very little to choose between them, assuming they are warmed up appropriately.

The only 'difference' I can identify is that the walls on the Hoosier 'wrinkle' better and appear to give the car a smoother transmission take up on launch. In simple terms they seem to be kinder to the car. The 60foots where comparable (1.5sec, 1660kg car), HOWEVER I am not running anything like the amount of power as the HT car, albeit mine is a lot heavier.

My advice would be to try either the MT or Hoosier and see which you feel works best on your car. The one issue might be if Hoosier do a suitable 16inch!

Good luck!

DaveG

[Heat Treatments]

Thanks for that,we now have a selection of 15" and 16" rims.

Our first test run will be on Good year drag slicks,after we get a feel for things we will look into the radials and other tires we have.

[Lith]

Very nice, look forward to hearing how it all goes. The 255/16s have been used by all sorts to do some crazy times... even with RWDs.

Best of luck for the trip, hope everything pays off! Go give the Australians a scare

[NXTIME]

Forget the Nittos. As Paul said, M/T 255/50/16's are the pick for radials.
Not familar with many cars using Hoosier radials, except for the CRD [JUN] R32 which had a 1.534 60' (1600-ish KG weight) using 275/40/17's.

[Red R Racing]

Originally Posted by Irish GTR

Do you mind me asking you guys something..........,what bloody time is it over there,if you are posting at 6 am UK time on the forum?

Most of us are all still tucked up in bed fast asleep at that time.

was 6:14pm when i posted...just before dinner.

The M/T's wrinkle up ok for a radial...


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[Heat Treatments]

Originally Posted by Red R Racing

was 6:14pm when i posted...just before dinner.

The M/T's wrinkle up ok for a radial...


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Those tires look like they will work good,we will have to ask Theo if we can burrow them to have a crack at the record

Time is running out as the car leaves in the container tomorrow

A great track cant come soon enough.

[NXTIME]

And full-weight GTR wheels-up launches as well



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[R.I.P.S NZ]

Makes one wonder why you even bother with 4wd doesn't it, lol.

I can't see pictures like them ever comming from Meremere.

Best of luck HT and keep me posted,

Robbie.

[Red R Racing]

Originally Posted by Heat Treatments

Those tires look like they will work good,we will have to ask Theo if we can burrow them to have a crack at the record

Time is running out as the car leaves in the container tomorrow

A great track cant come soon enough.

I can arrange a new set to be waiting in brisbane when you arrive if you like Kevin, i can also get you some rims and get them fitted up as well.

let me know if i can assist.

Paul

[Heat Treatments]

Originally Posted by Red R Racing

I can arrange a new set to be waiting in brisbane when you arrive if you like Kevin, i can also get you some rims and get them fitted up as well.

let me know if i can assist.

Paul

Hi Paul

Thanks for the offer,we will keep it in mind,we will start off on the slicks and will try the radials on our test days.

We have 3 seperate events alone planned in august, being the 11th-17th-18th and also the jamboree on the 21st-22nd.

After that those events we will review the comp calender.

Reece.

[Irish GTR]

Originally Posted by R.I.P.S NZ

Makes one wonder why you even bother with 4wd doesn't it, lol.

Project GTST is a good case in point,


Good luck to to the HT car,Id say the times will tumble.

[R.I.P.S NZ]

Originally Posted by Irish GTR

Project GTST is a good case in point,

For sure, totally different type of car to a GTR though and far more engineered and purpose built for running mid 7s.

I'm keen to see Reece crack the 200mph mark, thats going to be a great day for us all and not such a good day for the old bogan V8 guys, lol.

Robbie.

[Lith]

Testing due to happen in Oz on Wednesday afternoon, should be very interesting Looking forward to hearing how the efforts to lower the record go!

[mandhdrijfhout]

There Facebook page with regular updates & will have there testing timers up today as well

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[ryan_010]

Test and tune canceled due to bad weather...