Ohtsu fp8000 tires

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I converted to squared and also choose ohtsu as a cost saving measure to absorb wheel change cost.

Coming from pirellis I find ohtsus far superior to pzeros as daily driving tires.

Also I figured fp8000 are actually falken fk452 which I had back in time on my other car as dd tires.

Anyone has any experience with these at autocross or any other hpde?

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It's stormy today in California to the point I wouldn't drive on a freeway unless necessary.

I had to drive though. A lot of accidents, with 70% of them involving big trucks and suvs and rest were fwd family cars. Had to stay twice while police was blocking the freeway to pull damaged cars to the side.

Fp8000 behaved really good at the freeway given I did not drive like crazy, probably around 50 mph in 65mph speed limit. Mines are 285 wide and I did not want to check my chances. Most of the drivers were also cautious. I mean, at higher speeds wipers just didn't cope either.

I have to tell that these tires felt fairly dependable and decent in a weather like this. I hydroplaned probably only once at around 50mph for about 2-3yards but that was a river of rain crossing the freeway at that point. I was going uphill and rears were pushing the car hard at that moment.

To be fair, I remember a weather like this while on my original OEM Pirellis (staggered PP sizes 255 at the front?) being maybe 10% worn and they worked good as far as diverting flood water. I remember hydroplaning for a moment once as well while crossing the flow of water.

So I guess it is mostly regarding having healthy thread depth in conditions like this.

In overall dry conditions - these tires feel comfortably softer than pirellis. To the point where I'd expect some degradation in lateral and some loss of steering feel. But as far as I can tell right now - there's no loss of steering feel whatsoever. FP8000s feel very elastic and emit squishy sounds when at road paint or very smooth surfaces like some parking lots.

In conditions like slow speed small radius maneuvering at parking lots front pirellis more often than not might just skip laterally than roll with steering wheel all the way to one side. You can feel that scary skipping very clearly. Do not remember anything like this with any other tire I ever had. Acceleration out of the turn - inner rear wheel would spin with ease. None of that is a concern with ohtsus.

Wish I could spend an autocross event with ohtsus just to learn car limits on these tires, but my schedule doesn't allow for that.

 

[TexasMetallic5.0]

Mine are doing fine. I’ve always had good luck out of the Ohtsu/Falken tires. I have them on my truck as well.

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