Street Drag Tyres

[geea]

After Friday night and having massive trouble getting off the line with any sort of speed I'm looking at investing in a set of street legal drag tyres. If I'm going to fork out $300+ per tyre I'd like to get the best I can and any imput would be great.

I have both 16" and 17" rims to put the tyres on.

After last night I have learned that the 16" tyres hit top gear at around 120mph and the 17" tyres aat around 122mph.

If anyone reading this has a tyre shop I have 3 brand new Dunlop 3000A's that I could put toward a trade.

The brands I know of so far are Mickey Thompson, Nitto and BFGoodrich T/A. What else is out there and which would people recommend.

I'm not fussed on looks or street drivability I just want good 60' times.

Geea.

[geea]

If anyone knows someone in the trade I have a full set of factory 17's with Dunlop 3000A's. 2 of the tyres are brand new and the other 2 have been driven for 100km's, you would have trouble telling which were which. I also have a 5th brand new dunlop aswell. I also have 2 16inch steel rims with track rubber on them. I would be quite happy to exchange some/all of these for the right set of rims/tyres.

Geea.

[ktford]

I'd get some nice n tall Mickey's on a pair of 15's. We used to F around with McCreary's with good results years back G60's & L60's if memory surves me correct.

Scotty

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If anyone knows someone in the trade I have a full set of factory 17's with Dunlop 3000A's. 2 of the tyres are brand new and the other 2 have been driven for 100km's, you would have trouble telling which were which. I also have a 5th brand new dunlop aswell. I also have 2 16inch steel rims with track rubber on them. I would be quite happy to exchange some/all of these for the right set of rims/tyres.

Geea.

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you already asked me this question? na just joking!

hoosiers are another brand! and now that I just looked at what I quoted I pushed the button on the wrong post! ooopppsss!!!

[geea]

I'd get some nice n tall Mickey's on a pair of 15's. We used to F around with McCreary's with good results years back G60's & L60's if memory surves me correct.

Scotty

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I think 16's are the smallest that will fit on the rear of the "T". Also I think with the smaller diameter wheel I hit top gear earlier and this slows the run a bit.

Geea.

[Guest xrtwpn]

Craig

you can fit a 15" on the back and tha would be the best thing to do and the McCreary's you can use on the street too you should have much traction problems then

But im a little confused you have 330rwkw right ? why is your mph 122 at the most ? reason I ask is dyno figures are overated and with that sort of power your car should be pulling close to the 130mph I have a feeling your intercooler is letting your car down at around 3/4 track too much heat coming from every where I know how to solve this problem if you want to know give me a call

Cheers

Adam

[KBB]

Hang on do you want radial drag tyres or just grooved drag slicks. Most of the tyres mentioned above are not radials. I have raced a few 10 second cars on Nitto's and they are awesome, provided you run the right pressures less than 18psi and cook them before the run. Obviously the Nittos are radials as are the BFG Drag Radial TA's, I know a few guys who run the TA's and they are just as good as the Nittos and easier to get. MT have just released a drag radial but I don't know if they are available here yet.

If you use non radials you need cross ply front runners as well, and they are not cheap and pretty useless for anything other than drag. Driving around on the drag radials on the street you hardly notice they are on there

[geea]

Hang on do you want radial drag tyres or just grooved drag slicks.  Most of the tyres mentioned above are not radials.  I have raced a few 10 second cars on Nitto's and they are awesome, provided you run the right pressures less than 18psi and cook them before the run.  Obviously the Nittos are radials as are the BFG Drag Radial TA's, I know a few guys who run the TA's and they are just as good as the Nittos and easier to get. MT have just released a drag radial but I don't know if they are available here yet.

If you use non radials you need cross ply front runners as well, and they are not cheap and pretty useless for anything other than drag.  Driving around on the drag radials on the street you hardly notice they are on there

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I don't want grooved slicks, I would like the drag radials. With the TA's I have their info and it appears that in 17's 225 is as big as they come. These would fit the factory 17" rims but would they be wide enough. Would there be much benefit in getting rims mad to 9" and getting 275 Nitto's on them?

Geea.

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I don't want grooved slicks, I would like the drag radials. With the TA's I have their info and it appears that in 17's 225 is as big as they come. These would fit the factory 17" rims but would they be wide enough. Would there be much benefit in getting rims mad to 9" and getting 275 Nitto's on them?

Geea.

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the bigger the footprint the better those bridge's new are awsome just as I said when I saw them on the rims they did not end up with enough foot print try stuckeys theve been into racing radials for years they should know something we dont.

[geea]

I don't want grooved slicks, I would like the drag radials.  With the TA's I have their info and it appears that in 17's 225 is as big as they come. These would fit the factory 17" rims but would they be wide enough. Would there be much benefit in getting rims mad to 9" and getting 275 Nitto's on them?

Geea.

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the bigger the footprint the better those bridge's new are awsome just as I said when I saw them on the rims they did not end up with enough foot print try stuckeys theve been into racing radials for years they should know something we dont.

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Who and where are Stuckeys? What brands do they sell and what sort of experience do they have?

Geea.