do tires really make a diff?? whats better for control lo pro's or any tire

 

tires make a pretty big difference when it comes to drifting.



like always, your front tires are most important, you want to keep grip in the front, so you dont understeer when you initiate a drift.



i've found my favorite tire to use is the hankook ventus rs2, they are hankooks response to the azenis rt615's, they're about 30-40$ cheaper on edgeracing.com and they're badass autocross/drifting tires



if you got the money go crazy and get azenis why not. wonderful tire to use.



if your somewhat cheap get hankook k106 radials i've been finding them for about 60$ a tire here and there.



but as for the rears, it really doesn't matter, i never bother buying tires for my rear, no point in buying new tires for alot, then wasting them.



hunt down your closest pep boys, firestone, goodyear etc, look in their trash, thats what i do.



i have about 50 tires in my backyard, mostly performance tires, just from looking around, you'd be surprised the crap people throw away. someone had potenzas on all four tires, one tire was flat because the sidewall blew out and they junked all 4, so i got 3 barely used potenzas for nothing.



so when it comes down to tires it basically boils down to this.



front- a decent performance tire with good tread



rear - doesn't matter one bit.



hope this has been helpful

 

once you have power. rear matters a ton

 

Azenis rt-615



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best period.



expensive? yes but reasonable.

 

ive ran federal ss595 and falken ziex 512's up front



and dumpster spares on the back.



works for me.

 

hrumph! hrumph!



ss595 are good tires for the money. i got free dunlops dz101's. those are pretty sweet too

 

yup.

they were on the 18's i had.



but those are sold and now im back to my 16's with the ziex's.



whenever i need new fronts im definitely going with federal again.

cheap and good grip. cant lose.

 

i was wonderin because i heard that 50 down to 40's are good and i was wonderin its thats true. but i aint made of money

 

sidewall wise?



i run stock size tires on 15's in the back.