I will be purchasing new tires for my wagon. Have narrowed it down to Mickey Pro. Bracket Radial 28- 9.00 - 15. Or the Mickey ET Street Radial 275/60/15.

Does anyone have any experience running these. My car is heavy 4k runs 7.0 in the 1/8th which is what most tracks are around me.

The wagon is a 67 so I'm tire limited. The reason I bring that up is that I have heard the 275 ET street runs big.

Thanks for your help.

If it is not a street driven deal the pro bracket radial is awesome. I have been very pleased with mine, they are wearing very well and hook great. I do have maybe 100 or so street miles on mine but I try to keep that to a minimum because they aren't cheap.

I had a little trouble with them on a very marginal track but I have learned more about shock settings and will likely be able to tackle that problem next time I run into it.

^^This^^ If it's not going to be on the street buy the Pro.

Hoosier drag radial and PBR are both great. I’ve used both with great results. I too am 4K +.

Thanks for the replies. The rims I currently run were drilled for screws as I always ran slicks. Will these holes be a problem when I switch over to radials? Would rather not have to buy a ne set of rims if I don't need to. They are just steels but its still another couple 100 I can use elsewhere.

For my drag radials, I sanded the inside of the rim smooth and filled the holes with silicone. I also had a oval racer friend cut some additional grooves in the tread for rain when I'm caught in a summer rain and need to get back home. Works well.

Yeah just fill the holes with silicone, they will be fine.
The Pro's are softer and a bit more sticky than the standard ET.
The big problem with them is that they do not start out with much tread depth from new, if you have a 10 second car go with the Pro but expect to wear either of them out fast on the street.

I run the 275 pro's on the street and track. Way too much fun. 18psi everywhere.

How true are the 275 size wise. Mickey says 11.4 section width on a 8" rim which will fit. But if its much larger it will be too wide.
That would be the ET Street Pro.

Love the 275 Hoosiers

Tom, if your wagon has stock wheel wells (which I think it does...??), the. 275’s will be hard pressed to fit. The 28x9 PBR’s should fit and would be my choice.

Thats exactly what I needed to know, thanks. Yes the wheel wells are stock. So it looks like the PBR's will be my choice. We will see if the side walls hold up better than my Hoosier bias plys. Even at 18 lbs the sidewalls balled up badly. Never spun but always felt I wasn't getting all I should have out of it.

I’ll be up for new tires after this year and have been looking mostly at the PBR’s. Please keep us posted on how they work out. Good luck in that big bad wagon this season!
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I got the 275's in the Barracuda but I had to change the offset/backspace of my steel rims, 5" BS 15x8

Ozymaxwedge,

Tell us about those beadlocks on the steel wheels.

The tires these days are just incredible, lots of good choices.

Thanks,
Bill

Ok so I drove to Summit Racing and picked up the 29/9.0 PBR. First impression WOW they are small compared to my Hoosier 28/9.00 bias ply slicks.

I had forgotten my tape so I could not measure rollout there. Got home and one is 86.5 and the other 86.75 so difference is small and will be ok.

What I dont see them doing is growing at least 1.5" when mounted. My bias ply only grew 1" and that was w/20lbs in them to seat the bead.

I need 28" min preferably 28.5 (89.5) which is what I had. What do you guys think? As you know once they are mounted they are mine. The tires are supposed to be 28-28.99 which would be 88- 91" circumference.

Hey Bill, my Son and I have a little cash on the side bogus business Dream Build Fab making up custom steel wheels, basically give us your old steel rims and we turn them into any size and back space you like.
The rims in the pic are 1969(aussie chrysler) 14" centres, 15x8 outer band that is flipped, close to 5" backspace and a 16" fake beadlock The beadlock actually works as the bead is on the 15 plus hard against the 16 lock, tire must be fitted from the back .

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You will be surprised on how much ET and MPH your car will pick up going from the old bias ply tires to the new smaller radials
I use to race NHRA stock back a long time ago when the radial slicks first came out for stockers, every one I know that bought them complained about the circumferences until they made the first pass with them on, all of the their cars picked up ET and mph with no other changes
I ran Firestone 9x30 on ten inch wide rims and always ask for the biggest circumference tires they, Parnelli Jones Firestone race tire division in Torance, CA, had in stock. They where all above 95.0 in circumference I sold my stocker before the radials came out, I use to help several other Division 7 racers after that and learned form them about the radials being better
Please let us know your results

Do NOT expect a radial to grow at speed. If you need a taller tire to keep the RPM down at the stripe, what you just bought aren't it.

I believe the pro bracket is an x5 compound and the Et street radial is R2 compound. Just looked at those 2 at mcCormac racing tire last friday. The pro bracket is much lighter in weight compared to the street radial as well. Gonna get the ET street radial R for my deal.