LOVE the R888's... no matter how many heat cycles i put on them they just keep going and going and going. i know when its time to get a new set when i see cord. awesome tire!

 

I have just bought a set of Pirelli Corsa R - I'll post my comments mileage and pictures when they are used up.

It'll be a couple of months.

 

any consensus on the best pricing/service for ordering R888's?

thanks!

 

Bryan Shackelford

Toyo's Only

Authorized Motorsports Dealer

Trackside service available

(602) 252-3301 Shop

(602) 252-3319 Fax

toyosonly@yahoo.com

 

he can shave them too!

 

anyone have any suggestions/advice/experience on tire pressure for the R888's on a 04 GT3? The BMW guys seem to like them high (40's), somewhat higher then i would have expected. Others are saying low to mid 30's. No real consensus on the various forums so i thought i would ask GT3 owners specifically. I've tried them in the low to mid 40's and i can't say they are confidence inspiring but i'm guessing this is a driver malfunction. thought i better ask for assistance before i hurt someone (me) or something (car)..........

thanks in advance for your advice!

 

38 MAX then they become grease *****.

 

35/36 front 37/38 rear. If you run them with low pressures and much camber be very careful of the inner shoulders.

Or just use MPSC which don't go off after 3 laps.

 

I have bought R888 from some months, mainly because are less expensive than pirelli pzero corsa

I have tried both in the same day and same track. The only problem I didn't solve during these tests is the setup because the two tyres have different mesures and require to adjust the high

both have a very good performance but different behaviour, R888 is more direct in the intial phase , pirelli seems to be more soft and precise, a little bit better pirelli pzero for performance

not the same for lasting, pirelli last less (after 6 hours hard track you have to throw away) than toyo (I don't have a final statistic for these)

bye

 

DanH and VA122, i assume these are hot temps. thanks for the suggestions. MPSC's don't work all that well in the cold temps (40's and 50's) that we have here in the morning so i stayed away from them. i miss my Hoosiers but i'll get the better part of a full season out of these.

 

this is what i found with my driving on 997 and 996gt3, take it for what's worth. data is over 12 sets of R888's

i can do same lap time, within 3/10 of a seconds using any pressure from 34-44psi hot, yes, strange i know....

but there 's no pattern as to if i am fastest with low or high pressure.

i like my car to push, some told me my car push so much that they can't drive it. but i have no prob with it. with that in mind, at 44, the car is "livelier" at the rear but easily controlled (remember i prefer a understeering car, so if i can control the greasing 44psi r888, it can't be that slippery).

the only pattern i noticed is if i run low pressure, i get wear in the center of the tire contact patch. if i run high pressure, the wear is even across the tread.

these obseravtions is consistent on my BSR as well.
for ref, my gt3 are about 3200lbs while the BSR is 2500
no driver and very little fuel.

as you can see, that's data on one driver, three cars, very different wt and different engine placement, varied temp NO pattern i can see other than what i noted above..

oh, the fronts wear out faster on BSR 2.5:1 ratio
while the rears wear out faster on GT3's but not buy much, certainly not 2:1

 

i have different datapoint.
on RA 1 i dont lose grip until cording.
on R999, when i get to about 2/32 tread depth, the grip is gone, any less tread than that, the tires is on ice.

 

this is amazing. my R888 last four day tops, about 360 min of driving. and the last hour is not all that great, i was just trying to get all my pennies worth. this is same if i shaved or not.

and on my BSR, the front looks like full slicks after 2.5 days.

 

As a datapoint, on my BMW I started out looking for 38 hot and found them a little bit slippery, from then on I aimed for 36 hot and was much happier with them. Definitely would not recommend them in the 40s.

 

same experience on my M3 too. Maybe something about the chassis.