drag radials

Has anyone had any luck with m/t drag radials? What kind of tire pressure are you running? Post #12, 13 to go!!!

hottest thing since slice bread .........its all about power management

bruno wrote:.........its all about power management

That makes it sound like they suck. The same thing could be said about 25 year old dry rotted bias ply street tires you find at a swap meet......"Oh yea, they hook great, its all about power management".

I know one guy that is trying (fighting) the DR's on a basic sb leafspring street/strip/daily driver deal. He has tried slapper bars & a "Caltrac copy" and in either case they did need a bunch of air pressure to even make them think about hooking consistently. He's going back to the tried & true regular M/T drag's when he gets another set. Give me the regular drag slicks (M/T or Hoosier) any day.

Just bump your own post 13 times in a row to rack up the post count.

I went 5.63@137mph with a 1.41 60ft on them. They are 1000 times more stable on the top end then my ET Streets were.

1.24 60ft, 5.01 @ 142 1/8th, 7.80 @ 174 1/4mile....... It IS all about power management with the radial tires. You can't hit 'em hard off the line like you can with a slick or ET street type tire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKd67sI4_G0

Brain.

The Drag Radials are the sh!t, the M/T and Hoosiers both work well but we've had longer life from the M/T, Goodyear has also redone thiers and some people are having some good results with them but we haven't tried the new one yet (the originals from 4 or 5 years ago were horrible). Again, it is about dialing in your combo, but we ran almost 2 tenths quicker (8.47 @ 163) with a 295-65 than we did with a 10.5x29.5 (non W), both M/T. The tires are so much more stable at the end of the track and worked better for us in the 60' too, we were running at 3470 lbs in a stock suspension Mustang with a Nitrous 408 smallblock, the car had consistant 60' of 1.24-1.26 with the drag Radials. A friend of mine (Chris Little) has been 4.70's in the 1/8 and 7.20's @ 200 mph in the 1/4 using the 315-60's, it's a twin turbo charged smallblock ford, stock suspension and 3430 lbs, he's carried the the front end damn near to the 1/8. I believe the Radial record is around 4.50 in the 1/8 and 6.90 in the 1/4, and a guy with a Nitrous BBC powered stock suspension Camaro here in Maryland has run multiple 1.18-1.19 60 foots, these things work.