Mustang Maniac
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: GA, U.S.A
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General consensus I always come across is this (pretty much like Venum just stated):
Nittos -- (I have these on the '79 for almost a year now) Good amount of tire life, significantly good wet traction for a drag radial. You have to do a good amount more heating/burnout to get adequate traction at the track, but will launch VERY well if done so.
BFG Drag radial -- Less effort needed than Nittos to get good traction at the track, slightly better (and a little more consistent) launches with BFGs, less tire life, bad (almost dangerous) wet traction.
So basically, look at it this way: if you want a serious drag radial (that's street legal -- redundant, but I'm making a point) that'll launch you every time, with little effort, but won't last too long (relatively speaking), get the BFGs.
But if you want a street legal tire that you can drive on the street or take to the track, with considerably good mileage, excellent wet/dry traction, but not as easy to launch on the drag strip as BFGs, but still good, get the Nittos.
I think that's a pretty accurate description of the 2 tires.
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