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Anyone in the 10's on pie crust slicks??
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12/24/13 09:06 PM
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Got a customer with a 3,400 race weight car that will make around 650hp with a 4-speed and he wants to run pie crust slicks........ Just curious if anyone is ETing very well with them?? If so, what brand and size are you running? How much slower are you running on them versus a modern slick??  There are a lot of recaps out there.......Are those any good? 
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Re: Anyone in the 10's on pie crust slicks??
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12/25/13 01:36 AM
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I had some 9" wide M&H's in the 70's they wore like iron but put some heat in them and the worked great on the street. Coker is making the pie crusts, I would think they would have at least as good a rubber compound as the repro polys.
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Re: Anyone in the 10's on pie crust slicks??
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12/25/13 02:30 AM
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Sqeeze, Their is a guy on the hamb who has gone 10s in a T with an early hemi on pie crusts. I also think Mike Koleman has gone 9s on them in his 31 chrysler coupe wih a blown early hemi.
Cody Hurst of Husrst tires told me a guy has gone 200 on his tire in a FED, but he does not reccommend it. Hurst tires are piecrust caps on NEW steel belted radial casings.
I am going to attempt to get my 31 plymouth coupe into the 9s on 10" Hurst whitewall piecrust slicks, but have not got the car done yet
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Re: Anyone in the 10's on pie crust slicks??
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12/25/13 04:02 AM
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I assume the pie crust are the older looking 7 and 8 inch slicks that are just like the ones from the 60's and 70's ? I mean thats what I thought they are. I believe Cooker makes them with modern type rubber on them that will hook as good as the 9" Hoosiers I use ? Ron
Yes, pie crust slicks...there are lots of sizes available...he's looking at something in the 29" tall by 9" wide range...that'd be awesome if they hooked as good as your tires...
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Sqeeze, Their is a guy on the hamb who has gone 10s in a T with an early hemi on pie crusts. I also think Mike Koleman has gone 9s on them in his 31 chrysler coupe wih a blown early hemi.
Cody Hurst of Husrst tires told me a guy has gone 200 on his tire in a FED, but he does not reccommend it. Hurst tires are piecrust caps on NEW steel belted radial casings.
I am going to attempt to get my 31 plymouth coupe into the 9s on 10" Hurst whitewall piecrust slicks, but have not got the car done yet
Yeah, Hurst is one of the tires we've been looking at...the recap stuff we've found are quite a bit cheaper than the new ones we've found...so we're trying to figure out if it's worth the extra coin for new tires for a safety and traction advantage....it seems very few people actually race on them though...my customer has called a few of the places that make them and even they don't have much feedback....
If they're not safe at 132-135mph or if he'd be giving up a full second in ET over modern tires then he's not going to race on them.... 
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Re: Anyone in the 10's on pie crust slicks??
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I don't know about the new pie crusts but the old pie crusts had stiff side walls that I believe would be harder to hook than a modern slick. Especially with a street strip type clutch.
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Re: Anyone in the 10's on pie crust slicks??
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I talked to the owner of Towel City. He was very nice and easy to talk to guy. I asked him if I could run his tires on a car that would go 150 in the quarter. He said no way, they are not made for that kind of speed.
The Radir 12 inch slick is what Mike Koleman ran into the nines. He could not run them at drag week, because the tire width limit for the class he ran is 10 inches. When I inquired with Radir about 10 inch slicks, they were out of stock and it could be months before they had more. so I bought a set of set 10 inch Hurst's
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Re: Anyone in the 10's on pie crust slicks??
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12/26/13 04:06 PM
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I talked to the owner of Towel City. He was very nice and easy to talk to guy. I asked him if I could run his tires on a car that would go 150 in the quarter. He said no way, they are not made for that kind of speed.
The Radir 12 inch slick is what Mike Koleman ran into the nines. He could not run them at drag week, because the tire width limit for the class he ran is 10 inches. When I inquired with Radir about 10 inch slicks, they were out of stock and it could be months before they had more. so I bought a set of set 10 inch Hurst's
If either of you guys want a set of those slicks, I have new ones..They do have two grooves though..Let me know...I am taking the car in a different direction..
MB
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Re: Anyone in the 10's on pie crust slicks??
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12/26/13 05:24 PM
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I talked to the owner of Towel City. He was very nice and easy to talk to guy. I asked him if I could run his tires on a car that would go 150 in the quarter. He said no way, they are not made for that kind of speed.
The Radir 12 inch slick is what Mike Koleman ran into the nines. He could not run them at drag week, because the tire width limit for the class he ran is 10 inches. When I inquired with Radir about 10 inch slicks, they were out of stock and it could be months before they had more. so I bought a set of set 10 inch Hurst's
If either of you guys want a set of those slicks, I have new ones..They do have two grooves though..Let me know...I am taking the car in a different direction..
MB
Hey Mike, what sizes do you have? My guy is looking for something about 29" tall and 8.5-9" wide...
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