Car keeps swaying !! Why?
 

I have a 02 trans am with bolt ons and cam! Well when I put on my
26x10.5-16 MT ET STREET (slick version with dotted lines down it) and I run it my car starts swaying all over like crazy! I runy car with my stock fronts which is a 16 rim also !! Stuff is very scary but how can I stop it?

Welcome to the world of bias ply tires, get used to the rear feeling like its dancing going down the track. That is normal behavior of soft wall slicks

get adjustable rear suspension to keep you straight off the line!

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It take a bit of getting used to that's for sure.

Either get radials for the back or bias plys for the front...if you mix and match them you will get sway.

You can also try using tubes and running a little more air pressure.

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Belongs in the wheels & tires section, not the external engine section.

K let's move it.

Bias ply in the front, to match the rears, did not eliminate all my sway.

I get no sway on Hoosier QTPs with bias ply front tires. Without I would get a lot I'm sure. I have no swaybar and tires on the street are aired to 25psi and track 13-17 anywhere in between. I've swayed at 120 or so on the street which can be sketchy but otherwise it's fine daily driving and drives great.

Get a bias ply front. It's not safe to run without one.

I sometimes run stock fronts with 1st Gen ET Street's. It's fine. Just don't be an idiot trying to autocross or road race. Drive with the knowledge you are driving on a drag slick that happened to be street legal (when it was new) and you'll be fine imo. My car is never without stabilizer bars, so if you do, you may want to reconnect them.

How much air pressure?? I have forgotten to raise my tire pressure after leaving the dragstrip and get a swaying feeling when I drive it that way.

I get no sway with Bfg drag radials in the back and street tires on the front.. I'm not sure why? None at all. nvm- I guess they aren't bias I was thinking of my old et street bias ply I never got to mount :s

I had Mickey Thompson e/t street bias 26x10.5x16 and swayed at high speed with radial fronts. I got Hoosier QTP 27x11.5x15's now and have no sway with radial fronts.

You can't run a bias ply rear with a giant ass radial front you tards.

You can usually get away with a radial front if it's a skinny, like on a 15x4 wheel, but when you try to run some giant stock fronts, it's dangerous.

If your wheel is wider than a 9.5 then you can contribute some of the swaying to tracking. Wide wheels in the front will cause a car to sway back and forth.