I am running the pro radials this year. Have around 30 passes on them ,they have been real good so far . Best 60ft is 1.21 and 9.21 at 148 so far . Not sue how many passes i will get ,seems to be wearing a little fast .

We ran that tire in Hot Street, it was the mandatory tire for the class. The Cuda weighed between 3350-70. It was a 12" beadlocked wheel with and without tubes. This was at 11lbs no tubes and you can see how it was killing the tire. We never had a lot of luck with MORE pressure. Generally we ended up between 10.2-11.2lbs of pressure. These things might last two races at most on this car. But the kept working great on lower HP stuff.

Here is one with tubes at the 10.4lbs. Wheelspeed was always an issue for us. It was a fine line between the car working and not. We killed a lot timing to get the car moving. We generally opted for the kill the tire and make sure it goes down track method. The car was not it's fastest this way but it always got down the track. Typically in the low to mid 1.20's this way.

Most guys use up the tread on their tires in the burnout box by just killing the tire in the water. This is a waste of rubber and actually does more harm than good. The ideal tire temp is generally within 10 degrees of track temp. And the tire being CLEAN is actually MORE important than the temp............Think back to how many times you have seen cars at the track, some really HIGH HP cars have a problem and either NOT get a burnout, or just a light one. They STILL generally go right down the track. Guys that tell you that their car "won't hook" unless they just boil the tires have no clue about what their car REALLY needs to work, because setting the tire on fire and getting the rubber really hot and squishy is NOT the answer to making a car hook.

With our car, we do LONG burnouts, but we do not do HARD burnouts. How is that possible?........Easy, we do a "rolling burnout" like a fuel car. He rolls through the puddle, I tell him when to strike the tire, he mats it and puts it in high gear and I also tell him when to let off. We make a LOT of wheelspeed fast and don't cook the tire. I do NOT want him to burn across the line with radials, as they can tear up the rubber on the line.......BUT, I DO want him to "roll" across the line out to about 60ft with the hot clean tires to leave some tracks. If I need MORE heat, I roll him through the puddle slow, if it is hot outside I move him through the puddle fast. Again, we do NOT cook the tire or even make a whole lot of smoke. That is just wasting the tire for no reason.

Monte

Yeah I've seen funny cars make a clean pass even without
a burn out at all.. they just spun them a little to
clean them and get the water off them.. I do very
little burn out as per the manufacturer instructions