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Mar 16, 2002 | 11:39 PM

bigSS

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ET Streets (street driving)

Ok, ET Streets suck on the street. After about a 10 second burnout, I let it roll forward about 20 feet or so and stopped. Revved the car up to about 3 grand, dumped the clutch and floored it. Spun up to redline instantly. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="images/icons/rolleyes.gif" /> I tried this 3 or 4 times with the same results. Tire pressure was at 18psi. They better hook tomorrow at the strip or i'm ordering 28inch ET DRAGS on Monday. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Mad]" src="gr_images/icons/mad.gif" />

Note: This was my first experience EVER on drag tires. A buddy of mine has a setup exactley like mine, except with BFGs. He hooked twice as hard. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="images/icons/rolleyes.gif" />

What the heck?

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Mar 17, 2002 | 06:36 AM

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Re: ET Streets (street driving)

my car is always prettying finiky on the street with slicks. guess it depends what pavement you are on maybe. sometimes they will spin all the way though 2nd gear, sometimes they will stick and go like im at the track

Mar 17, 2002 | 06:50 AM

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Re: ET Streets (street driving)

I've always wondered how well the ET streets hook compared to the ET drags....I might have to step up to the next level pretty soon if these don't work out... <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" />

Mar 17, 2002 | 07:14 AM

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Re: ET Streets (street driving)

BigSS - my 11.14 was on Et Streets, and the narrow ones at that (26x10.5x16). They hook pretty well. Good chance that the road, or whatever was on it was the problem.

I doubt you'll be able to find a DOT tire to hook any better.

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Mar 17, 2002 | 07:57 AM

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Re: ET Streets (street driving)

Alex,what street did you do this on ,like chevyguy3 said about the pavements.
TRy the new 231,
I still have teh 28x9's et drags that came off those rims

Mar 17, 2002 | 08:04 AM

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Re: ET Streets (street driving)

They will work much better at the track, which is really what they are designed for.

Do a really good burnout with them, and personally, I'd lower the air pressure.

Good luck.

Mar 17, 2002 | 09:51 AM

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Re: ET Streets (street driving)

by the way, my 28" et drags had the same issues as my 26" et streets on the street, so just switching that way wont eliminate it for you, though they should hook better. just look for the smoothest grain of pavement possible to run on, or concrete if you can find any good patches of it to run on. slicks just plain dont like rough pavement, and it will also tear the rubber up pretty fast doing burnouts on streets like that