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Today at Atelier Kaz - Private NSX Enthusiast, ex-Honda R&D engineer with F1, Indy/CART background

Advan Neova AD-08

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After installing this on all four corners, I covered over 8,000miles and the rears are about 1mm to go before starting to hit the wear limit.

As my chassis setup is quite different and while I don’t accelerate hard (WOT in lower gears), I do use really hard braking so my comment may not be the same for your setup and driving condition.

For OEM wheels, even with the today’s latest technology, I still felt the OEM NSX specific tyres suited best for my style when I compared it with several well known aftermarket ones on different NSXs.
You can still get these OEM tyres in Japan and possibly in US.

I went through so many tyre set over the 136K miles on my NSX and initially, I was bit worried about going for the AD-08 based on the characteristic of OEM Yoko’s in wet conditions.

However, soon, I was really impressed with it and at this stage, it is my choice of the tyre next to the OEM one for the NSX with OEM wheel.

If you use different tyre size compared to the OEM ones on the aftermarket wheels, it’s a completely different story.
Personally, the OEM Rear tyre width is too narrow considering its performance/characteristic and I would rather have much wider tyre at the rear and find the suitable aftermarket wheel for it.

AD-08 performed really well under braking not only in the dry but also in the wet.
Even in the cold winter weather, it was OK but I have upgraded ABS.

Very consistent even after several 1’000s miles in all weather conditions and just recently started to feel nervousness while its temperature is still low when going through the roundabout.

I better start shopping for the rear tyres as sometimes, it is out of stock and could be a long waiting time….

Kaz

Comments

  1. Senninha's Avatar
    Hi, Kaz.
    what is the wear to the front for comparison please?
    rgds, Paul
  2. Kaz-kzukNA1's Avatar
    Hi, Paul.

    I didn’t bother measuring the depth to the wear indicator at the fronts because there were plenty rubber left.
    I normally replace the fronts at the time when I [Edit: finish] the 2nd set of the rear tyre as the front inner side will worn out much faster than the rest of the area for my chassis setup.

    My setup is quite different from yours and very likely to drive in different style.
    As mentioned in the above post, my comment including the tyre wear would be very likely to be different for your case.

    For example, when we heard lots of praise about the Type-R front & lower chassis bar, Type-R front anti-roll bar, Type-S rear anti-roll bar, aftermarket tower bar, etc, we tested them on several NSX on street as well as closed course over a few days and to cut the long story short, the first thing came off from my test car was the Type-R front anti-roll bar.
    For my driving skill, I couldn’t shift enough weight towards the front and couldn’t enjoy the driving at all on the street as it was too much understeer for me.
    From the logged data, there is not many owners who can shift enough weight towards the front using Type-R anti-roll bar.

    I also removed all of the so-called stiffeners such as Type-R front & lower chassis bars because I didn’t like the feeling with the changes in the resonance frequency.

    The only thing left was the Type-S rear anti-roll bar for the street session but this was also replaced back to the standard one for the track session.
    With the Type-S one, it allowed me to break the rear at much earlier stage of the cornering which was fan to drive but big no no for the track session.

    So, I think unless you feel the same way and having similar setup (by the way, I use modified Type-S spring/damper), my feedback including the tyre wear may not be valuable for your NSX.

    May be you can use the fronts up to the 3rd set of the rears.....


    Kaz
    Updated 02-05-2012 at 12:03 PM by Kaz-kzukNA1 ([Edit:] section added.)