Hookin on Street Tires
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Well I'm pretty disapointed..
When i bought the car i traveled 500 miles to get it, when i came up i saw that the 2 rear tires were totally worn off. So i bought 2 cheap potenzas 225/60/16s from a windstar or some minivan..
Cool, so, the strip is in the way home so i thought i would take the chance to test my first V8 RWD car ever.
Boom, That dayi came up with a 14.333 with mad spinning at 7800DA.
Then on the week i replaced the tires, bought 4 stock size 245 G-Force KDWs 1
I was all excited thinking that the KDWs would work a lot better then the 225 potenzas..
To my horror i cant get 14.3 again.. 14.8s and with some luck some 14.4s runs at 7800/7900DA
WTF????! Help!?
When i bought the car i traveled 500 miles to get it, when i came up i saw that the 2 rear tires were totally worn off. So i bought 2 cheap potenzas 225/60/16s from a windstar or some minivan..
Cool, so, the strip is in the way home so i thought i would take the chance to test my first V8 RWD car ever.
Boom, That dayi came up with a 14.333 with mad spinning at 7800DA.
Then on the week i replaced the tires, bought 4 stock size 245 G-Force KDWs 1
I was all excited thinking that the KDWs would work a lot better then the 225 potenzas..
To my horror i cant get 14.3 again.. 14.8s and with some luck some 14.4s runs at 7800/7900DA
WTF????! Help!?
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14.333 Run on 225 Potenzas
60ft = 2.40
mph = 95
14.410 Run on 245 KDW 1s
60ft = 2.27
mph = bad cell that day, so i dont know.. but by speedometer all runs end about the same, 95/100mph
Also at that time on the 14.333 the spare and jack were on car, 14.410 not.
i dont know WTF.. maybe the car needs service and its getting worse..
hmm other thing is that i changed the oil, that just flashed me now that i think the car needs service. But the old oil was nasty, BLACK as hell...
Now i cant really do an average run because DA temps are getting horrible with this hot days, we are getting 8400+ DA running 15s LOL
60ft = 2.40
mph = 95
14.410 Run on 245 KDW 1s
60ft = 2.27
mph = bad cell that day, so i dont know.. but by speedometer all runs end about the same, 95/100mph
Also at that time on the 14.333 the spare and jack were on car, 14.410 not.
i dont know WTF.. maybe the car needs service and its getting worse..
hmm other thing is that i changed the oil, that just flashed me now that i think the car needs service. But the old oil was nasty, BLACK as hell...
Now i cant really do an average run because DA temps are getting horrible with this hot days, we are getting 8400+ DA running 15s LOL
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Well geez where do you live? I had 625 DA a couple weeks ago. ![Happy](https://ls1tech.com/forums/images/smilies/LS1Tech/gr_stretch.gif)
That 2.4 60' could be dropped enough to get you into the 13's, and the DA is taking a number of tenths away.
Don't sweat it. Practice launching to get the 60's down, get some better air sometime and you should be fine.
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That 2.4 60' could be dropped enough to get you into the 13's, and the DA is taking a number of tenths away.
Don't sweat it. Practice launching to get the 60's down, get some better air sometime and you should be fine.
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Originally Posted by blkZ28spt
Well geez where do you live? I had 625 DA a couple weeks ago. ![Happy](https://ls1tech.com/forums/images/smilies/LS1Tech/gr_stretch.gif)
That 2.4 60' could be dropped enough to get you into the 13's, and the DA is taking a number of tenths away.
Don't sweat it. Practice launching to get the 60's down, get some better air sometime and you should be fine.
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That 2.4 60' could be dropped enough to get you into the 13's, and the DA is taking a number of tenths away.
Don't sweat it. Practice launching to get the 60's down, get some better air sometime and you should be fine.
I would love seeing 13s, by far my car is the quickest stock Camaro around even with this problems...
Im running the KDWs at 20psi cold, should i lower them more?
Also, i dont do burn outs, they work better cold as i have been testing.
One thing i noticed on the change of tires is the feel of them..
With the KDWs on hard launches or hard WOT U turns the tires feel like they are totally floating on air. The potenzas felt more like trying to grab..
this sucks.. i guess i must take the jump to drag radials..
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You dont' want to go much lower then 20 psi hot in street radials. They just don't react the same as drag radials, and especially not like a wrinkle wall slick/cheater slick.
You are correct in not doing a burnout, just spin them breifly so they are kinda warm but more importantly to quickly clean them off.
You are correct in not doing a burnout, just spin them breifly so they are kinda warm but more importantly to quickly clean them off.