Front tyres??

[Stevo]

MX5 wouldnt go fast enough to get understeer pete hahaha

[PeterT]

as i said before the day and will say after it....faster than the smelly nissans sitting on wands coming into corners! i guess having 2 odd tyres on the front didnt help. one being a 10 euro part worn i bought last week that only had about 2.5mm thread on it haha.

i dont think super grippy is what people should look for unless they are super anal/competing top level,I think an even grip front and rear tyres is a good idea

[franmk]

just check your wheel alignment. then tyres

[Mac_C]

just check your wheel alignment. then tyres

X2 !

Poor setups are why most have understeer imo.

Super grippy fronts tyres are sticking plasters for bad setups.

If the car is set up correctly you shouldnt need a different compound from front to rear.

[Prodrifter86]

i was using Toyo R888's which i got part worn which i couldnt get warm at all in damp condition's which made Zero cofindence plus pulling the handbrake plus why i have a big dent in my quarter panel, though in the dry there fantastic after a few laps.... Maxsports are really good for the Silvias anyway... though i think if your running really low there alot bulkyer under the arches. just depends how you drive aswel

[JohnRaff]

this is something ive been reading up on/thinking about a while! its all about how you want to drive your car. I had bad understeer issues over the weekend in the mx5 when using the handbrake, but this suited as i wanted to just drive by flicking the car in etc.

depending on driving style and purpose of the car (ie practice day car, or fully comp car) ive seen a lot of lads runnign shit tyres on the front on purpose for the sake of being able to attempt backwards entries without being a faglord and just buying the silly lock kits!

I was told at the weekend when talking about it that when Dai was over driving the MG altezza, he was saying it had too much front end grip and wasnt allowing him to throw the car in and actually drift the car, more so do a long burnout on full lock.

This guy here has gone from running good grip tyres up front to running nankangs up front!














All in all, I duno where im going with this. But yeh, grip isnt everything, its how you adapt to it aswell. or something

At drift Matsuri in Wales there were a lot of super competitive top end cars there but this was the only guy doing proper Kawabata styled backwards entries, fair enough he was not as fast as most other people there but was incredible to watch.

[LarZ]

I use the wand a lot. I'm not going to deny it lol. But good steering tyres give you better response under braking too. If i'm throwing the car sideways at 160km/h i want to know that if i get it wrong my brakes will save me (or at least try). Also, if you attack someone mid corner and they lose control I like knowing that my fronts wont be locking up.

We had a close one on saturday when I spun out in front of you in Ford Peter. If you had grippier front tyres you wouldn't have shat your pants and had that let out those big girly screams

[PeterT]

haha yes exactly, i was shitting my pants at the cars behind me! but yeh, its all down to driving styles! if i spent money on a car for drift days, i know what sort of set up id be going for and it wouldnt be super grippy front end!

[blusrule]

Get a set of federal 595s if you're on a budget, great tyre up front! Or maxsports or Hankook RS2 if you have a few bob.

I cannot stress enough that second hand or older tyres are useless! They have gone hard and you might as well be driving on a solid wheel!

[tweek]

^^^^i agree second hand tyres are a waste of time

I wouldn't put federal 595s on a micra I don't rate them at all.200euro will get you a pair of Maxsports in 17s mate of mine is running them on his road car for the past 8 months n/a power but they haven't gone off or gone hard the older compound Maxsports peeled quiet easily from what I have been told

And as mac_c said not getting a car handling right and using a super grippy tyre is just masking the problem and to be fair spending the 80euro on getting a car laser aligned is well worth it