Who has run these tires? What are your mods/times? I have a bolton car and am looking to run the 26x8.5 ET Drag on my 15x7.5 Convo Pros. I am dead hooking the 275/50/15 MT drag radials, but I think they are too big for the 7.5" rim, and I am looking to go to a bias-ply tire and an ET Front up front for contigency. Let me know, thanks!

Matt

 

hey matt...

didn't see this at all till now. i had those tires back when i was just a bolt on car. stock 10bolt, 3.23 rear gears, stock trans with a yank TP4400. pretty much full weight, only headers/exhaust, and the slicks skinnies with a tune in the car. Hooked to a low 1.5 in my 3400lb car. Probably could have gone better with more horsepower. i dropped down from a 26x10 e.t. street, but didn't gain anything in 60' nor 1/4. although i think they are pretty close in tread width by comparison so it wasn't a drastic change

 

I run the 26/10.5 mt drag and there consistent as hell on the 60 fts Im pulling 1.46 60fts on average best is a 1.43. But it stays consistant thru the day. Stock suspension that will change before th NMCA race 10 bolt 3.73 with a yank ss4000 stall. engine is a 382 with stock ported heads and cam race weight is 3550 Im a fat ***.

 

I run a 9 inch Hoosier tire with full boltons and best time and sixty foot is in the sig. I personally was considering running the 8 inch tire due to less weight, but never did. I would get the lightest tire for the track, just my suggestion. Good luck.

 

I have a set of 26x10.5 Et's on mine right now and they hook great. They still have plenty of tread on them and I'm going to a 28" tall tire, PM me if you wanna buy them.

BTW your car and mine are almost identical, same color, wheels, hood. LOL

 

I have the same converter, PT4400, 3.42 gears (soon to be 4.10s), the car weighs 3050, and all of the boltons except a pulley and water pump. QA1 "R"s up front, and full chrome moly adjustable suspension. Seeing that you hooked on them makes me believe that I shouldn't have a problem either considering I am making a little more power, 500lbs lighter, and have the suspension to tune it to hook. Right now I am running 12.0X @ 110.XX with 1.57-1.60 60fts in +2000 DA. The car is consistent but I think I would benefit by going to a full slick. Thanks for the reply.

 

I am only interested in 26x8.5

 

Matt,

I went 11.74@114mph on a 1.52 60' after looking through some old logs.

Hooker LT's, true duals, all the stuff I mentioned in my first response, 100% stock suspension, LS1 intake even, a tune for shiftpoints/rev limit, air lid.

I think it was one of those rare -1500DA days, cause it was october

but yeah, without the front sway bar on for the only trick, it would hook even on the warmed up street after a burnout. guess just not enough power, haha.

like i said, don't know what'd you'd gain if you are already dead hooking the radial, cause i thought it was proven that even the radial slick cars are going faster than a bias ply slick.

 

There are cars down here running in the 5s in the 1/8 with them, they are a popular spec tire. So needless to say they can take some power, no matter what they are still a 'real' slick and work pretty well if your suspension is decent.

 

What he said. Same 60ft. a DR tire will always run faster.

 

Yeah I know that, but I think the 275/50 is too much tire on the 7.5" rim. Thanks for the replies, I am going to go with them and try it out.

 

oh yeah, forgot to read that part. bet that rim is sucking that tread width in pretty good/ballooning it

 

Yeah, I think it is. It is a tad too much. Plus, the ET Radials are 31lbs where the 26x8.5s are 19. That's 24lbs of rotating mass I will be losing. I need all the help I can get at 3050lbs.