I found some legit Hinodex Cobra R's from a friend here in Tennessee, at a sweet sweet hell of a deal too, so I'll be going with a square set-up of 275's on 17x9's.
My last two events I ran the Nitto NT05R's (Not NT05). I did not realize the "R" stood for "drag radial". Not sure how I missed that, moving forward I would be getting the "non-R" NT05's. I would say the fronts are good for 2 full track weekends. So if I'm doing the math right and I can rotate them as a part of a square set up, I should be able to get 3-4 weekends out of them. By that point I imagine they would be heat cycled out anyways.
So, that being said my other options are....
- Conti's Extreme Contact Sport - TW 340 - I had these on my Golf R and GTI's, these were amazing tires and kept up pretty closely to my RE71's that I had before these. I was able to put a ton of miles on them and get at least 3 full track weekends. The dynamics of a Golf are much different than an SN95 though, so not sure how similarly they would hold up.
- Nitto NT555 G2 - TW 320 - No experience with
- Firestone Indy Firehawk Indy500 - TW 340 - No experience with
- Falken Azenis RT615K+ - TW 200 - No experience with, but have one person who has there doubts.
Any and all feed back welcome, just waiting to pull the trigger. If there is something I haven't listed that is in a similar price range, let me know.
My last two events I ran the Nitto NT05R's (Not NT05). I did not realize the "R" stood for "drag radial". Not sure how I missed that, moving forward I would be getting the "non-R" NT05's. I would say the fronts are good for 2 full track weekends. So if I'm doing the math right and I can rotate them as a part of a square set up, I should be able to get 3-4 weekends out of them. By that point I imagine they would be heat cycled out anyways.
So, that being said my other options are....
- Conti's Extreme Contact Sport - TW 340 - I had these on my Golf R and GTI's, these were amazing tires and kept up pretty closely to my RE71's that I had before these. I was able to put a ton of miles on them and get at least 3 full track weekends. The dynamics of a Golf are much different than an SN95 though, so not sure how similarly they would hold up.
- Nitto NT555 G2 - TW 320 - No experience with
- Firestone Indy Firehawk Indy500 - TW 340 - No experience with
- Falken Azenis RT615K+ - TW 200 - No experience with, but have one person who has there doubts.
Any and all feed back welcome, just waiting to pull the trigger. If there is something I haven't listed that is in a similar price range, let me know.