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Old Jan 12, 2005 | 10:49 PM
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Is anybody running them with any luck? What 60 foots are you cutting with them, and with which size?
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Old Jan 13, 2005 | 02:39 AM
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Is anybody running them with any luck? What 60 foots are you cutting with them, and with which size?
Brent (eb02) with the electron blue Cartek 427 Z06 cut a 1.55 sixty foot on them (295x35x18) on his way to a 10.7@130+ back when he was still just a heads and cam, stock bottom end 346.
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345/30/18 on HRE 18 x 12 rim.......1.52-1.55 60' all day long on my 97' C5 coupe.
Bone stock F45 suspension too
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Is this a Nitto or BFG? I want some drag radials for my 18's for the street, but want something that'll last and that I can drive in the rain. Hopefully nitto makes a tire.
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Originally Posted by Got Me SOM
Is this a Nitto or BFG? I want some drag radials for my 18's for the street, but want something that'll last and that I can drive in the rain. Hopefully nitto makes a tire.
BFGs.....Nitto doesn't make anything big enough and as they have told me don't plan too.....
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this is a 295/35/18
http://home.comcast.net/~mightym0use/1078pump.wmv
have also been 11.1 at 141.4 on my current 315/30's but ran out of gear because of the tire height.
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