anyone run 20's daily ?

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Looking into the 20 inch srt replica wheels.

the truck won't be a DD much longer, wanted to run the nitto DR on it, they have the 315/35/20.

anyone ever use these tires before ?
 
I have been running a set of 305/50R20 Kumho Ecsta's on the 20" replicas for about 12K miles. They do not handle as well as the 22s due to side wall flex BUT they ride so much better.

Which is the reason I tried them; driving everyday on some rough roads the difference is worth the trade off in the handling departement for me.
 
lilred7879 said:
I have been running a set of 305/50R20 Kumho Ecsta's on the 20" replicas for about 12K miles. They do not handle as well as the 22s due to side wall flex BUT they ride so much better.

Which is the reason I tried them; driving everyday on some rough roads the difference is worth the trade off in the handling departement for me.
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Is there a weight difference between the rims ? I know replicas can be a slight bit more heavy.

I am looking at the nitto NT01 tire to run on the rear.
 
You could just run a set of steel wheel spares on the back when you go to the track with DRs on them.
 
I've run the nitto NT05R Drag Radials on my challenger on a 20 x 10" viper replica wheel with the bolt pattern for my car. Worked pretty well (pulled a 1.95 60' slipping the clutch a little) and held the power down at the top of each gear, barked when shifted. I have been happy with them myself! The 20 x 10 viper replica's for the LX/LC platform (5 x 115mm bolt pattern) weigh a hefty 43 lbs each, so pretty heavy by themselves. :) Good luck!
 
Man tba 315/35/20 is going to be really small on your truck, they are only 28.7 inches tall vs 31.6 for the 22's. Would give you the same effect as lower gears though. Have you looked at the BFG tires? They are pretty much as soft as DR's
 
RAMDUDE said:
Is there a weight difference between the rims ? I know replicas can be a slight bit more heavy.

I am looking at the nitto NT01 tire to run on the rear.
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Did not weigh them but I think you are right they are a little heavier.
 
I've had this same thought. But I would like see pictures before I take the plunge, and I don't want an overall package that is too short looking. Anyone have pics they can post?
 
http://www.vtcoa.com/forums/f14/fs-black-05-qc-mods-mods-mods-43646/index2.html

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ARRESTmeRed04 said:
Man tba 315/35/20 is going to be really small on your truck, they are only 28.7 inches tall vs 31.6 for the 22's. Would give you the same effect as lower gears though. Have you looked at the BFG tires? They are pretty much as soft as DR's
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I have thought about looking into the BFG's.

I'm going to look into them a little more.
 
Yellow venom said:
I know Yellow446 has them on his truck and he never mentioned anything about them ever howling:dontknow:
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first i've ever heard of it before too?:dontknow: i know ZCX has them and loves them, somehow he has even gotten a lot of miles out of them too.
 
I'm going to look at them in a min and see whats up.
 
I asked this same question a couple of months ago and I didn't get many/any positive responses. I put 6k miles on my truck every year, but I would have no issue at all running Nitto DRs on the street all the time. I have run them on all my street cars as the daily driven tires for years. BFGs will hook better, but will handle like crap. The Nitto DRs are a great tire for more hook than anything you can put on the 22s, and yet the truck will still handle just fine, unless you are into road-racing.

My issue is like one poster above said they are so much shorter than stock that it will basically be like running 4.88s+ gears, and this will screw up the speedo reading, too. My truck is lowered, so I don't think it would look bad to run a little shorter tire, but 3" is a lot. The QC above looks pretty good, I think.
 
WA 2 FST said:
I asked this same question a couple of months ago and I didn't get many/any positive responses. I put 6k miles on my truck every year, but I would have no issue at all running Nitto DRs on the street all the time. I have run them on all my street cars as the daily driven tires for years. BFGs will hook better, but will handle like crap. The Nitto DRs are a great tire for more hook than anything you can put on the 22s, and yet the truck will still handle just fine, unless you are into road-racing.

My issue is like one poster above said they are so much shorter than stock that it will basically be like running 4.88s+ gears, and this will screw up the speedo reading, too. My truck is lowered, so I don't think it would look bad to run a little shorter tire, but 3" is a lot. The QC above looks pretty good, I think.
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The BFG should handle better than the nitto Dr, the 22" BFG is not ar DR, so should have a little stiffer side wall.
 
sorry, I thought you were referring to BFG DRs, not the BFG KD or whatever that comes in our stock 22" size. You are 100% correct. I just don't think those tires are going to offer anywhere near the same dry traction as the Nitto DR.

But that will be what I get after I burn up my Pirellis... but these OEM tires may never die. 14k miles on my truck, and they have plenty of tread left. LOL
 
I dunno about hooking as well as the nitto but there was a guy in Houston a few years back that pulled a 1.76 60ft on the BFG's
 
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