Going to take the duster on the asphalt this weekend. I have some mickey thompson et street drag radials. My question is how much pressure should I run in them? They are not bead locked and temps are supposed to be around 80* and sunny all weekend.

Any other tips are appreciated

17-20 psi, stiffen up your rear shocks, loose on front

Any one else have any suggestions??? Or does no one on here use drag radials?

IIRC you run a 4spd right? I've heard that DR's don't like manual transmissions.... I run 15 psi at the track with mine and found that it doesn't take much heat to make them stick. I usually get them spining good in 2nd then go to 3rd for a couple seconds and let out. When I first ran them I heated them like a bias ply and spun bad, but a friend suggested a shorter burnout and it worked good for me

I run 22-24 psi in mine rear shocks stiff. Did you put ladder bars on? See ya Sunday. Mike

How does your rim-width match-up with tread-width ? ... I have heard that they like to be about the same.

I will be running BFG Drag Radials Sunday also. I plan on running 20psi & from what I have read they like short burnouts. I see they do good burnouts in front of your house! See you Sunday.

I just went through this last weekend. Im sure all cars are different but I couldnt get mine to hook up. Everyone on here said 17-20 lbs. It spun terrible with that much air and once they start spinning you might as well lift because they dont recover like a slick. I started talking to other people in staging with some really fast cars and they said 13-14 lbs. Dropped em down to 13.5 and they hooked awsome. My car ran the best 60' ever with a 275 60 e.t. street radial over a 28 14.50 q.t. pro. I would start at 14 and go from there.

I run anywhere from 17 to 20 psi

I've been 1.3760ft with them,

i run 15 lbs in mine. I also try not to do to much of a burnout.

Thanks for all the replies guys. It seems there is a wide range of pressures out there. From what I am told we only get 3 qualifing passes. So I gotta figure it out quick. So I think I'm gonna start out around 15 psi and a small burnout.

Bruce, we are leaving tonight so we don't have to get up at 330 in the morn.

Is that a leaf spring car? If it doesnt hook good on the first pass drop it down to 13 and I bet it sticks!What size tires do you have and what size wheels? What dos the car run?

The BFG's suck. Get a set of MT's. 18 psi for me, 1,36 60' times with leafs and mopar drag shocks.

16-20 PSI, I'd start at 17 or 18

I think your car will hook no prob with those tires. I ran a 275-60 which only has a 9" tread with junk 40 year old suspesion and ran 1.49 60' with a 10.63 e.t. @125 mph. I dont think you will have any probs hooking unless you are launching it at 6500.

Nope will be leaving off the foot brake. So at most 4k rpm.

I found the Hoosier DR hooks the best, The BFGs are #3 on the big 3 DR scale from feedback on them, they will hook, but if its a stick car it might be tricky. I can vouch that the Hoosier DRs hook "hard", even on crappy track prep in a stick car, With my MTs on my dart they were a bit finiky on the bottle on a so-so prep, I had my extention too tight & they would just skate untill i let off then got back into it, On the 3 sets of MTs i ran in 3 different cars the best pressure was 17 lbs. "cold", anything over 19 was a wash, but every car is different, I'd start with 18 cold & see how it does, & don't need a john force burnout for them to hook, just get them hot quick & pull to the line.