Best tire for me?
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Best tire for me? Hi I am looking to get a tire for the drag strip. I am not going to drive with this tire on the street. So I was looking at Hoosier quick time pros. But I here you can't run a bias ply out back and radial up front. I was planning on just getting a tire to put on two stock camaro rims and use my fronts. So will a drag radial be better for me or can I use the Hoosier. My car has a 10 bolt still 3.42 gears and a 3200 stall yank converter. The tran and motor are stock besides that. And I spray a 125 shot. Best I did so far was 1.7 60 and a 12.03 at 113 mph. I spray it 5 tenths into the run. I main want the best tire I can get with out buy fronts for bracket racing. Thanks.
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Thanks guys. So I can run the bias plys out back I plan on using stock rims so would I need a tube with bias plys. The tire I want is 26lt-9.5-16 QuickTime Pro. The radial I want is p255-50-16 Hoosier drag radial. I am also considering the similar mickeys to those two. You guys say the radial would be better but I here for bracket racing which is what I want to do the bias ply is better. So for bracket racing which would be better there is no suspension on the car besides BMR tubular rear control arms. Thanks
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I am getting drag tires this week still don't know which yet but I am. Also I don't think I need suspension yet if I could 1.73 60ft on street tires but you might be right and I do. The car is my dd slash cheap racer I don't want to dump a lot of money into the suspension. Thanks for the input though. And yes atco Nj
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I have always used bias slicks with street tires in front. Radials have lower rolling resistance and will MPH better and potentially ET quicker, but bias tires are more forgiving.
A 28x10.50 ET Drag is overkill on my car, but it has allowed 1.5 short times with true street suspension, the only "drag racing" suspension thing I have is airlift bags in the coils.
A 28x10.50 ET Drag is overkill on my car, but it has allowed 1.5 short times with true street suspension, the only "drag racing" suspension thing I have is airlift bags in the coils.
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If you go with bias plys you don't need to run tubes. I've gone as low as 13 psi on my M/T ET Street bias plys, 26-10.5-16. They don't spin on the rims. If you run tubes you'll have to screw the tires to the rims.
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Thanks a lot everybody. I am definitely going bias ply ether mt et streets or Hoosier QuickTime pros. How do you guys mount these thing I am going to do it my self at work I am a mechanic by the way, but do you guy soap up the inside to help with leaks and then mount them as a regular tire.
