Littleguy

Exactly, adults that want or expect gifts seem a little sad to me. If I wanted something I would have it, if it is a gift for a significant other than it's really only the thought that matters.

Only calling the majority of this site fairly closed minded is being pretty generous. lol.

Thanks for the link, I would say I learned more about tire differences, and settings during use researching tires this time than I knew before. That being said I went ahead and ordered the R888's heat cycled by tire rack, now that I will have them setup better (been messing with / researching tire pressure) they should be better than ever.

You need to get rid of that bullshit Christmas theme crap off of your browser.

Very cool, I had a 2zz Spyder that was super duper fun.

Welcome, also in for Van pics, haha.

Hahahahaha, once I stopped having an awd turbo car I realized that the "any given day" argument sucks, hahahaha.

The car has never seen a 1/4 mile and probably never will. This way I can just pull out the calculator in a parking lot and assume it would be faster than other people's cars, hahaha. Track days for this car means going to the road course at MSR Houston or another local track 2 - 3 times per year, and the roll racing is nothing serious, just farting around with Corvette and Supra guys mostly while we are cruising around Houston. And yes, I think I am going to go with the R888's again, this time having tire rack do the break in heat cycling. I know winter is starting in Ohio so I won't rub it in that we almost never see temps below 40 here in Houston and half the winters we never even get an overnight low below freezing.

Mostly roll racing and the occasional track day, I've only used the Faulken Azenis and the R888's, but like the R888 much more. Thanks! Now I have a ton more reading to do.

I really just want the most traction I can get with streetability (is this even a word?). Some things are more important than others, wet traction is more important than how quickly it wears or noise, for example. I am pretty sure that I will see less track time than a lot of you guys with more experience.

Thanks for the suggestions, after reading a ton I think you may be right about just doing the R888's again. They seem like they will be more streetable than the NT01's from what I have read. Hopefully having Tire Rack properly heat cycle them for me before I put them on will help. I wish, but I am a lowly LS1 and these may disturb all of my Starbucks runs. Eventually I do need to buck up and get an extra set of wheels and run something like these. Thanks a ton for the help guys!

Unfortunately I run kind of a strange rear tire size, 275/40-17, and these don't come in it so my choices are a little limited.

Thanks for the help guys, I think I can knock out the RA1 from contention. I have been reading so much the last couple of days and I am leaning towards just doing the R888 again but I am curious about something more streatable like the RE71-R. So much right in your post. Yes, I want to be able to put the power down and actually get some grip in second gear. The noise doesn't really bother me just because my car is already loud and annoying, lol. One issue I have ran into with my tires is that I think I am at the place where the tires have heat cycle'd out before the tread, but this was my first set of r compounds and I don't think I broke them in properly from the beginning (this time I would just use the Tire Rack heat cycling service to make sure they do it correctly). My default is to stick with an R compound for grip but I would love a regular summer tire that could put down the power.

Wow, super super cool and such a sleeper color as well.

I'm wondering if anyone has experience with both of these tires? I am going to be needing a new set soon and was thinking about the RA1's. I've been running the R888's currently and they have performed way better than the Faulken Azenis that I ran before. I have researched on Tire Rack, but I am coming up short on what exactly the differences are between the R888 and the RA1 and why I would pick one over the other. The tires will be used mostly on the street.