twinturbo678

Just had ECS do there blower set up on my 08. Im reading about these toyo tires and i see they have a 19 inch drag radial. Is anyone using them on your 19 inch rims for drag racing ? Wondering how they hooked and what size. Drag racers only please for this question.

dbradley

I don't find a drag radial. The Toyo site does show the R888 "Competition Radial" but its a road race tire........... is there another model?

http://marktg.toyotires.com/file/30029.pdf

twinturbo678

I know they have there own name for it. But its a sticky tire so i wanted to know if anyone was using them on the street from light to light and if they hooked. Im not a road race roundy roundy guy too make this post a little more clear. Have and o8 vette with a blower and didn't want to change the back rims to 18. So this is why im asking. The tire looks like the M/T drag radial especially the way of its tread design. Now can anyone reply who is actually using them please. Thank you.

z06bud

I've been using them on the street for 2 months, about

500 miles, and they stick like glue . A little noisy at low speed but otherwise ok. No comparison to the runcraps.

TTRotary

I have the R888 335/30-18s on my 480RWHP car, with 4.10gears and the Z51 gearset. These tires can handle 1st gear. That's equivalent to 550RWHP on a 3.42 equipped car. Had the 305 Nittos before (same tire basically) and they could not handle 1st gear.

BTW, the R888 is NOT a drag radial. It is a roadcourse tire like the Hoosier R6 and has a very stiff sidewall. So I'm not sure what kind of driveline shock these would produce with a dragstrip launch on a prepared surface.

For the street, the Nitto/Toyo are an awesome choice - no, make that the ONLY choice. That is all I have run on the street last 4 years.

twinturbo678

Thank you so much guys !!! A direct answer to a direct question. Going to order them. Thanks again !!

Ksths2

Would anyone have any pics of these Toyo's on a car? i just wanna see what a 30 series looks like

FredSM

I'll get you a pic tomorrow. The 30's look fine in 295/19 on the rear. I'm all the way down on stock bolts and there is clearly a half inch of new clearance I'd rather not have, but its not bad. The R888s also "pooch" well out from the wheel, which is quite a different look from the OEMs, but also provides significantly more protection from curb rash. These tires are VERY sticky, but they're also VERY new to me, and since I'm a "roundy roundy" guy, I'm living on borrowed time in this thread anyway!

FM

Ksths2

awesome! - looking forward to see the pics

FredSM

Here you go . . . 275/35-18 fronts, 295/30-19 rears. Maybe shoulda gone 305s on the rear, but these'll probably be gone in no time (hope my wife doesn't read this!). Also need to get rid of that stinkin 19" rear for track use, but one thing at a time . . .





The next pic suggests the tire extends past the plane of the wheel well . . . not so . . . just my bad photography.







FM

///DarkSide\\\

R Triple Eight - Where did you guys find the best deal???

Tirerack doesn't sell Toyo's

LS3FORME

tire deal for less , td4l has them,

why di you go with the 275/35 front would you not want a shorter tire as the rear is shorter and to keep the rake, and diff in proportion for trac c, abs ,etc.? any issues on the track

FredSM

Les Schwab is a brick-n-mortar retailer. I ended up going with America's Tire. They aren't a retailer, but they can get nearly anything . . . usually. They made me a better offer than Schwab. I think I paid roughly $425/ea mounted and balanced plus new valves. No TPS problems. Better on-line deals can surely be had if you have a favorite (cheap) place to get them mounted.



Because I'm a doofus. Should have either gone 305 in back or gone 265 in front. I was cautious about being too agressive in the rear but for some inexplicable reason decided I could go even wider up front and I've ended up cheating myself out of 1/2" in rake! Well, the consolation is they won't last long!

Let you know in about a week or so how they work on the track. I'm just graduating to R-compounds. Brand new shoes, brand new surface at Thunder Hill . . . this outta' be fun!

FM

LS3FORME

I ran ra-1 on my track car for a long time, great improvement over street tires, not a hoosier or pirelli race tire but good for hpde and most track days. They do not squeal like street tires do they need a little heat and are sensitve to tire pressure the ra-1 I do not know about the r888, but they are my next pruchase. Good luck you will see a new world in track driving with dot-r's.

jbsblownc5

I have a few thousand miles on my R888s, and love them for the street, roadcourse, and canyon. I run my MT DRs when I go to the track, but the R888s have hooked up very well for me on the street so far!

SinisterC6

how many street miles would you expect?

naschmitz

I like the Toyo R888s. They are a good compromise between street and track -- they will not be the fastest tire at the track so consider them to be a really sticky street tire. I drive on them to the events (40 miles each way). They perform amazingly well in the wet for how little tread they have.

The downside is that they are LOUD -- almost as loud as my SUV with off-road tires.

But the extra grip is worth it -- I had been running my Toyo R888s on the street while my flat runflat awaited the "runflat authorized technician" to return to work to repair it. After putting the runflats back on it is amazing how much difference there is -- active handling and traction control are essential for runflats but seldom seen with the R888s on the street.

If you have money to burn, you get a lot of performance just by running sticky tires. I am running the 255/35/18s on the front and the 295/30/19s on the rear. It gives the car the right amount of rake but both tires are slightly smaller than stock so the speedo reads 2-3mph higher than actual speed.

0Louis @ LG Motorsports

Make sure you clear bra the wheelwells, these tires will have a lot of rock pick up, and sand blast the paint over time.

I got about 15k out of my last set of Toyos on my 01Z, the RA-1 which was the predecessor to the 888. They did handle the power very will, however road noise was a little more than stock.

naschmitz

I'll second that thought -- We still have roads with sand on them from the winter that gets washed back onto the roadway with rain. It really sounds bad when that happens.

vertC6

Are they really that loud? Would you say it is twice as loud as the run craps? With a convertible with LG's and fusion exhaust is it something that will over power the exhaust note and drive me crazy with the top down or is it bareable. I have had low profile yokos in the past that were pretty loud once they wore down. Do they sound that way when they are new?