Full Wet Racing Tires on the street
 

Hello,

Has anyone used full wet racing tires on the street?
Hoosier says possible failure and death although DOT approved.
I understand why but checking for the other 80% of time they don't fail maybe.

Reason the Z is a wet driven car during those seasons which is 75% of its use.
And to get groceries. But want a part time track car and good performance in the wet. I can take to the track.

Or go with 3 sets of tires which is doable but storage issues.
snows, wet track or wet all seasons and track tire...

Any suggestions? thanks would prefer to try to get away with a really good wet tire I guess.

Cheers,
jb

You would be better off with a street tire. PSS's or RE11's. You're asking for trouble on the street with Dot wets. Hope you like spending money.

You would do better spending the money on another car for DD.

Race wets - just like R-Spec tyres - will not tolerate any more than a modest number of heat cycles (each time you take the car out and run it for much more than 3-5 miles = 1 heat cycle).

I'd imagine that after 20 heat cycles, the rubber chemistry will change and the tyres will lose grip and actually be worse than a DD tyre, especially a premium DD tyre.

I would not do it.

Thanks for info
 

Looks like over time I will try to get all season wets, winter and track slicks.

The snows and tracks to me are most important. Maybe half used all seasons for street and re rim the snows with the track tires. That would keep costs down.

Thanks again guys.

jb

All good comments here and I will add that R-compound wet tires, even new, do not have a compound designed for widely varying temps. They will get hard when temps fall near freezing, whereas street all-season tires have a much broader temp range to function in.

I would get a very good "street tire" and use that for daily/ rain days, hankook rs3, bf goodrich rival if you dont have many big puddles, or go with something like the michelin ps2

The Hoosier rain tires are designed strictly for wet conditions. They must be kept wet to function properly. In drying conditions a silica compound tire, racing or street, is just as good or better. And in dry conditions a rain racing tire will warm up too much, outside of its design parameters.

Get a pair of RE-11s. Use them on the street or in wet track conditions.

Rivals are not very good in the wet.

Wet Racing Tires:

1) Designed to be used when it is wet only
2) Designed to be used over a narrow temperature range
3) Designed to be used over a specific number of heat cycles

So if your street commute will be from the starting line of a racetrack to the finish line of a racetrack, then they will be fine for you.