Re: burnouts on street tires
[Re: WILD BILL]
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11/20/09 06:24 PM
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Never seemed to help when I used them. I ended up going to ET streets (biased) then to full slicks.
what brand are the ET streets?
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Re: burnouts on street tires
[Re: mickm]
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11/20/09 06:34 PM
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Mickey Tompson. 
Using the same kind on Gina's car now. 
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Re: burnouts on street tires
[Re: Cab_Burge]
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11/20/09 09:53 PM
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I've been told street tires need a bigger (longer) burnout to put heat in them since they are a harder compound....makes sense to me I guess.
Did a tire salesman tell you that? Most street(not drag race radials) radails don't like burn outs  I have seen a lot of successful street class racers go around the water and not do any burn out at all and still win races, round after round at the local track  I guess it is one of those things that you have to try on your combination to find out what works and what doesn't I do run both the M/T ET Street Radials and the ET Street bias plys on my car, the radials are faster than the bias ply tires on a good track and not as good as the bias ply tires on a bad track 
Nope, just hear-say. Made a little bit of difference in the 60 ft with my 5000lb truck, but it doesn't have enough power to get out of its own way, haha.
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Re: burnouts on street tires
[Re: mickm]
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11/20/09 10:22 PM
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I first ram my rr with 426 hemi stock 4 speed 391 gears 295 50 15 radials and it went low 13s with a 2.50 60 foot. Changed to 4.10 dana and 275 60 mickey thompson et streets and it jumed to 12.40s with a 1.7 60 foot. 
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Re: burnouts on street tires
[Re: Evil Spirit]
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11/21/09 02:58 AM
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The cars that I have run with street radials seemed to like no water - a short dry burnout just to clean them off, and a light trigger foot. The hotter they got; the "greasier" they got. 
that is the combo that seemed to work best for me...
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Re: burnouts on street tires
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11/21/09 03:02 AM
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I...295 50 15 radials and it went low 13s with a 2.50 60 foot. Changed to 4.10 dana and 275 60 mickey thompson et streets and it jumed to 12.40s
with a 1.7 60 foot.
and how did you get the 295's under there? i tried a 295/60 (or may have been 50, i can't remember), and if the car only went straight up and down i would have been ok!
but there was no way that 295 was going under there. i have 15X10 wheels and i'm pretty sure a 5.5 backspace...
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Re: burnouts on street tires
[Re: 70sixpkrt]
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11/21/09 08:10 AM
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I used to run a 275/50 Radial TA on my 5-speed mustang that ran 12.30s on slicks. I made LOTS of passes on the radial TAs. I would roll through the water(not much choice) and do a quick hard 2nd gear burnout. Worked well it ran 12.30s on slicks and 12.70s on the radial TAs with a best 60ft of 1.83 and consistant high 1.8 60s.
If you go drag radials stay away from the Nittos. I found they worked very well on the street but not so good on the track. They also were pretty scary in the rain!
EDIT, I was running these tires on an 8 inch rim and ran pretty low pressure. If I remember it was 18-20psi. I would also rotate them from side to side when the tread started to get sharp. The track was open 3 times a week and I was always there, no telling how many passes I had made on those tires.
Last edited by Bad340fish; 11/21/09 08:13 AM.
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Re: burnouts on street tires
[Re: Valiant_Showoff]
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11/21/09 12:20 PM
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I've run 3 different tires on my Valiant over the last few years and here's my 2 cents on the street tire topic:
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thanks for the breakdown, that is exactly what i was looking for! looks like it is the ET's then. i'm sure that even when i have a set of ET's i'll run the T/A's most of the time, i just want a good tire to hook at the track, and for those times when i want a little more fun on the street! 
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