If you drive an S197 Mustang GT and been wondering how good Nitto NTO5R drag radials are on the street, then read our review, it will surprise some of you! Most think of running a drag radial on the street as risky as handling goes out the door and that is basically true when it comes to most drag radial tires, but as we have found out for ourselves the Nitto NTO5R Drag Radials are the exception, these babies hook up very well and actually handle very good on the street in dry weather.
Before we decided to put on a set of Nitto NTO5R drag radials, we were running the Nitto NTO5 in the exact same size, which are almost a drag radial, just a little less sticky and a little stiffer side wall. The difference between these two tires is as follows.
Nitto NTO5
1 – They have a stiff side wall which gives a rougher/choppy ride with a stiffer suspension.
2 – They are a very sticky tire, almost as sticky as a drag radial.
3 – These tires do all very well, handle, stop, launch, even ok in rain if drive cautiously. If you do not do burnouts all the time the tread wear is very good.
Nitto NTO5R
1 – They have a side wall that is less stiff than the Nitto NTO5 tires. We could feel the difference even when we hit bumps, it soaked them up, so not as choppy a ride as with the NTO5 tires.
2 – These tires are noticeably stickier than the NTO5 tires.
3 – These tires launch very well and handle well on the street, almost as good as the NTO5 tires at low to medium speeds. At high speeds they felt a little less stable. These tires are not good in the rain, best to avoid driving with these tires in heavy rain.
We tried a few different psi settings when running the NTO5R on the street as a daily driver and for our 2012 Mustang GT we felt 35 psi was a good overall setting. If we wanted a little more grab off the line all that was need to do was run 33 psi, but could feel that the handling was a tad worse that when set at the 35 psi setting. At the drag strip we found that 28 psi worked great and felt the safest.
You do not need a burnout for these tires to hook, if it is warm out, they are ready to go. Doing a burnout may actually make them slip more as there is more rubbery goo. So even on the street these tires are ready to go after just driving for a short time in hot weather. Over-all for a drag radial driven on the street the Nitto NTO5R tires really impressed us for sure. We also found out that if you do not do silly burnouts etc and just drive moderately aggressive on the street, these babies do not seem to wear down all that fast, unlike some other drag radials we have tested on our 500 HP 2012 Mustang GT in the past.
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