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01-13-2021, 09:29 AM | #1 |
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Mickey PBR's VS Hoosier Radials
Morning all. Anyone done any real world testing of Mickey Thompson Pro Bracket Radials VS Hoosier Radials? When I bought my shaggin wagon it had Hoosiers on it. Worked GREAT! Anyhow couple weekends ago at a big bracket race my kids noticed a few cords showing so I went in search for a set of tires.... Thank You to Marion Stephenson for having some MT bias tires in his trailer. As expected they were slower by a ton! I figured to be .05 slower but it was AT LEAST a dime..... Needless to say they ain't staying on there.We have previous experience with the PBR's on 2 other cars and they are great and last a ton. I'm also not disappointed with less rollout offered by the PBR's as I could use a tiny lil more gear ratio. My main concern is..... if the Hoosiers are faster I don't want to leave anything on the table. Anyone do any ABA testing or have any other experiences??? Thanks in advance!
PS. I have run Hoosiers on my TS car and although they were fast and the car really liked them, they were junk after 40-50 laps. SOOO I guess durability is another question. I have no idea how many laps were on the tires on shaggy but I imagine they had quite a few seasons on em. Still worked great...even with cords showing! LOL! |
01-13-2021, 10:33 AM | #2 |
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Re: Mickey PBR's VS Hoosier Radials
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I do Know Michael Beard is real high on the PBR's Tells me they "Print" time slips.
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01-13-2021, 04:37 PM | #3 |
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Re: Mickey PBR's VS Hoosier Radials
They are a great tire and deadly. We have them on our old pure stocker/footbrake car and our S/St car. I did quite a bit of chassis work back in the day and if this tire was around back them I wouldn't have done nearly as many back half jobs! Our S/St car has an alky small block and runs the 29.5 x 10 PBR and it's STUPID how good that car is.
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01-14-2021, 10:34 AM | #4 |
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I run Hoosier radials on my super stock car. They work great and last a full season. I have been told the Mickey's are faster but I personally have never back to backed them. I did try the mickeys at one time and I don't think they lasted like the Hoosiers.
Most stockers I see are running Hoosier. Bias to radial on my car was 0.13 each time I made the switch.
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Re: Mickey PBR's VS Hoosier Radials
Goodyear makes a good long lasting and fast Stock radial. Dumbo went 1.24 60' the car weighs 3415.
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Re: Mickey PBR's VS Hoosier Radials
We run Goodyear Radials on all our Stock and Superstock cars!
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Re: Mickey PBR's VS Hoosier Radials
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As for performance, the tires are not identically set-up. The Hoosiers are 30x9 (92.5 RO), they have been run on 8" or 10" rims. The M/T's are 29.5x10.5 (94.2 RO) on a 9" rim. The M/T's are around 7 lbs. heavier per tire. Plain & simple the Hoosiers are .02-.03 quicker, but all around I like the M/T's slightly more. These are run on a 1980 Camaro bracket car. It weighs 3050 with driver, 434 sbc & runs high 9s. |
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Kenney you have a PM.
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01-17-2021, 08:41 PM | #9 |
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Thanks for the feedback guys. I was unaware they don't make a 9" x 29.5" PBR, only 28.5". I just assumed since they made a bias 9" x 29.5" they made the same in the PBR. Looks like Hoosier is the way to go. I am VERY pleased with how the car worked on the Hoosier so I'll stick with them. CO6 compound on it in the past........Thoughts??
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I have have been running the Hoosier 94 Lightweights for years and can usually get a season out of them (well over 100 runs) and then put them on my Daughter's K/SA wagon. My car is a AA/SA 427 Camaro. The biggest thing I see is people putting in too much heat , Too large a Burn out.
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