I have an extra set of STOCK wheels. Which would be the better choice for STRIP ONLY. What else would people recommend? I can't get pure slicks because I would have to drive the car home. They would not be used for daily driving.

I'm also getting ET front skinnies.

 

Either get the ET street radials or the Hoosier Quick Time Pro DOT tire. The Hoosiers are bias-ply but sticky as GLUE!!!! Do a search. There are numerous threads started on this exact topic. Good luck

Andy

 

I did do a search. The ET Streets are bias-ply as well. I'm trying to find out why people are telling me the ET Streets are a waste of money.

 

Do skinnies come with the wheels? Which wheels would I have to get if they don't?

 

If you don't have the power to need an ET street, then don't get them. The street radials hook just as much as the et streets and will be more efficient with a car that doesn't make 400rwhp.

 

I've got a set of ET Radials on order so I can't wait to see what they do for my stock 02 345HP SS. I was researching them on other sites too and some people have said the radials actually have a softer and sticker compound than the ET Streets do. Not sure if that's true but I want something that will get me to and from the track and not feel like jello doing it. Also wasn't too keen on having to run a tube for the ET Streets.

 

Perhaps a blown rear?

 

GETONE- You dont have to run a tube.

 

For regular ET streets you do. The drag radials you don't.

 

...but try finding a tube for the 17" MT street...there are none (even though it's a tube type tire)??? I had them and had to go tubeless...got a nail and they were worthless

 

The 17" is the only tubless tire of the ET Street bunch. I was looking at 16" for drag tires and they require a tube so that's why I didn't want to go with them. The original post was on a Formula with STOCK wheels which would be 16's also.

 

I used to run et streets on my stock z28 wheels 16" with no tubes and know of others that have also.
look here https://ls1tech.com/forums/showthrea...ght=et+streets

 

I'm going by the MT literature I have. It lists a tube for all but the 17" ET Street. The radials don't require a tube though. Maybe they work without them but it doesn't say that.

 

I just got my M/T radials on this weekend and I am very happy with them. I used to run the ET Streets, but got tired of the sloppy handling and 'sway'.

These radials hook like glue. I could only get a second gead chirp where with the ET Streets I could break em loose through most of first gear. My BFGoodrich drag radials would spin like crazy through first and second gear.


On a scale from 1 to 10 I give the M/T radials a 10++

 

What RPM are people launching with the MT DR's? I have a stock 345HP car and stock 10 bolt and don't want to nuke it by dumping it at too high a RPM.

 

i had a nail in one of my 17" et street radials. used a plug/patch for it, did the repair myself. Have had 10 track passes since (low 1.7 60ft times) and about 1k miles on there, no leak at all.

 

I run the street radials with no problems hooking.

 

1.4 60' here with the m/t radials @ 21 psi of air pressure in them. i love them. next step up is a full big et drag.

 

the ET STREET you do not HAVE TO use a tube I actully never met anyone that does use a tube. and Blind527 if you have a M6 then get a by ply tire. this helps with the shock when dumping. I use 10.5 X 16 et street and it dead hooks at 6000 rpms on two step

 

I went with a bias-ply et street on my m6. Should be interesting the first time I hook from a 5k dump