Just got some Nitto NT05s in the mail today. I won't get them mounted for another week and a half because I'm getting married Saturday and I won't have time. Hopefully these will help my autocross times.
Here are some pics.

 

They are some seriously bad *** looking tires.

 

Weak excuse.

 

Can you measure the width with a tape measure?

 

I just measured and it looks like the contact patch is 10" wide and 10.75 total width.

 

Those are some good looking tires!

 

I've had my Nitto's NT05's on since spring. They are very good. 295/35/18 I love them

 

Appreciate it. I've always thought my tires seemed small but I guess it's on par with Nitto's sizing.

 

Just got them installed.

 

The wife still let you drive that thing now?

 

HAHA. Only when I'm nice. I made sure to purchase the tires before I said the vows. I'll post pictures of what I did to the church parking lot when I can get them from my camera.

 

Do you mind posting some side shots of your car? I'm interested in the Pentar wheels for my VB GT/CS.

 

Good looking tires..

 

Looks great, heard some good reviews on them... they were one of my top runners when I was looking for new wheels/tires, until I found a package that included tires.

 

Here are some side shots. Not the nt05s.

 

 

Well I autocrossed on the new tires yesterday. The nt05s have a lot of grip and are very predictable. The never just let go without waring.

The only thing is that the edges of the center rib got rounded down pretty bad. I don't know if this is normal or should be expected from 8 autocross runs. Another guy with a WRX STI has nt05s and has the same issue. I marked on the picture where it wore down and I'll take a picture them tonight.

 

What does everyone think. Is this "normal" for 1 day of autocrossing?

 

Soft tires, wide tread blocks, seems reasonable to me. KDWs are much harder, so probably got a lot more life out of them.

Where did you buy them from?

 

I got them from http://discounttires.com/