Toyo 888 Tyre Pressures

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Can anyone give me some advice in toyo tyre pressures for the road and track please?

[jonnyfox]

Track 21 from cold, sometimes 20 on a v hot day. 26 normal road use here G.

[russelld]

22 front / 24 rear for road, when warm on track I drop them back to the same. I then forget to blow em back up for the drive home

[jimbo07g41]

sorry for a bit of a drift, but what are 888 like on the road? Would they be a bit interesting in the wet and do people run 195's on the front? Do they rub much?

[TheRon]

They are very good if the road/track is merely damp but their ability to deal with standing water is poor.

 

I ran 195 on S2 Exige wheels but I've seen someone run them on track on the standard S2 6 spokes and they were fine - maybe not making the best use of the tyre due to the limited rim width but didn't it cause any problems.

 

Graham - on my Elise I used to run 25/26 hot on track, this was usually 21/22 when cold.

[richbk]

Hey graham

I run 22 front 24 back on road , with no issues, even tyre wear, and definitely get less "tramlines" than I did on ao48's.

As mentioned drop2/3 on track when warm, then increase when home.

 

Mines is the lighter n/a version so maybe 23/25 depending on if your taking Laura out too !!!!

( that's my chance of another raffle win down the drain this year at chats worth !)

 

Richbk

 

[danwebster]

As silly as it sounds, what the manual says.

 

Running low pressures might make the car feel like it has loads of grip but at anything over 8 tenths they won't perform as they should. I made this mistake when I got my first lotus, ran low pressures on the advice of the experts on seloc, and could feel the tyre walls folding underneath me under hard cornering and especially on the transition to oversteer.

 

Granted not everyone drives as hard as I do, but in my experience the correct pressure for the car is the one in the manual.

 

On track, start at 4 to 5 psi below and monitor them every time you come in until they remain stable.