I just want this to serve as some information to the Supercharged Marauder crowd who doesn't yet have Nitto drag radials on their cars yet, and who are thinking about getting them soon.....
I've never used any other Drag radials than the ones that I have on my Marauder now which are the Nitto tires. So perhaps they all react in the cold whetehr the same way. That I can only assume since I don't know for sure. But what I DO know and want to share here w/the group is that now that temperatures are routinely in the 40's in the day time, and in the 30's at night, the Nitto drag radial tires provide even less traction than the factory stock tires do.
I didn't expect these tires, nor any real soft rubber compound tires to grab the asphalt in the cold temperatures as good as they will in warm temperatures. However, I am quite surprised that they grab no beter than the factory stock tires do, and perhaps even a bit less. I mean it's downright dangerous if I'm not carefull. The tires will break loose even during half throttle acceleration beginning from a 30 MPH roll. When the temperatures are in the 70's and 80's, the tires gripped pretty good on the street (much better than the factory stock tires do) and even better at the dragstrip. But now that it's cold out, I have to perform a good burnout just to get them to grab at all off the line. Even from a half throttle start. So this is just a heads-up for others. I'm satisfied overall w/the Nitto tires, and I plan on getting another set next year. But as soon as temperatures got into the 60's, I began to notice a loss of traction, and once it got into the 40's around here, forget about it. So the point is that these tires kinda give you two extremes since they're more temperature sensitive than standard radial tires are.