Videos of driving with a spool on the street?
10-04-2009, 04:28 PM
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Videos of driving with a spool on the street? cant find one in the search of someone driving on the street with a spool. i know everyone says WIDE turns but i dont really know HOW wide they mean by wide.
the car isnt going to be a street car but i would like to prowl the streets once in a blue moon
the car isnt going to be a street car but i would like to prowl the streets once in a blue moon
10-04-2009, 05:19 PM
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I don't have a video but drove a street car for a few years with a spool. You can still take tight corners but have to go slow and the inside tire will scratch the pavement which will tear up the tire a little over time. I found the most difficult thing was to maneuver in and out of parking stalls. I now run a tru-trac and like it.
10-04-2009, 07:40 PM
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I'm not making much power, running low 12's. At the time of the 9inch install I was building the rear to withstand future power adders I had in mind and for the 1/4 mile track. Then about a year later our local 1/4 mile track closed down. I got tired of the spool on the street and wasn't needing it for the strip so I went with the tru trac.
I never had to make wide turns to take a corner, you can push the car through tight turns when the pavement was dry. I was able to turn with the front wheels fully cranked in one direction at slow speeds, but like I mentioned the inside rear tire would scratch the pavement. The whole turning experience wasn't very pleasant but mine was a street car, if the car was only street driven occasionally it wouldn't be to unbearable I was also running Nitto drags with the spool on the street, I would imagine a regular street tire would be better around the turns.
I never had to make wide turns to take a corner, you can push the car through tight turns when the pavement was dry. I was able to turn with the front wheels fully cranked in one direction at slow speeds, but like I mentioned the inside rear tire would scratch the pavement. The whole turning experience wasn't very pleasant but mine was a street car, if the car was only street driven occasionally it wouldn't be to unbearable I was also running Nitto drags with the spool on the street, I would imagine a regular street tire would be better around the turns.
10-05-2009, 12:42 AM
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a spool on the street isnt bad at all. i DD mine with a spool and it doesnt bother me. parking lots are the wrose. u can turn corners on the street like normal and not tell its back there. going slow and turning sharp is when it is noticed. the tires cherp and the rear makes a clunking noise but the stickier the tire, the less chrepping and clunking.
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10-08-2009, 04:30 PM
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finding a spool? so my 10 bolt finally broke. im wanting to run a spool since i drive it pretty hard and its less moving parts. plus its cheap. but im having trouble finding a spool for a 7.625 10 bolt? do any of you guys know where to get one or do you all run 9" to get a spool? whats your recs on that?
10-08-2009, 09:50 PM
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I have been running my spool on the street for a while, I came off a locker, There is no comparison, I think the locker was the worst mod I ever did to my car. I run a hard compound tire so there is not too much tire shudder on slow tight turns, I do notice accelerated tire wear but you gotta give something. I wouldnt go any other way, I love the spool.
10-10-2009, 11:26 PM
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Yeah it isn't that bad at all. It is barely noticable on 28" DR's but more so on the stock tires wheels. It will "skip" around a turn a bit if it is rainy so you do have to watch it there a bit but you get used to it quick. No worries.
