Drag Radials

[SStockDart]

Just something to think about.....I have radials for the Dart....but I now run it on Bias...for a couple of reasons..first of all, I don't "need" the ET (avoid heads up races) and secondly, the Dart gets scary at the big end with the radials and bias front tires. I had heard that before and said BS.....but, when I switched to bias slicks, the car went straight, but a few hundreths slower. On our stocker, we use 9X30 radials with bias fronts and have zero problems. I really can't explain it...you would think that a narrower radial on the stocker would be squirlier (spell check says that isnt a word....lol) than a wide radial on a super stocker.
My conclusion is that a 9 inch radial on a 10 inch rim is optimum for the tire size. (Radial). A 10 inch rim is also the best for a 10.5 X 30 radial. When you get to radials that are 13.5 or 14 wide, you have to use a 14 inch wheel. Anything narrower will cause you to reduce tire pressure to get it to hook......but my experience has been the using this wide tire on a 12 inch wheel is that you will "burn out" the center of the tire.

Hope this helps.

[1320racer]

Originally Posted by HawkBrosMav

1320.. maybe youre doing something wrong.. just saying

Brad

It's a safe bet I've made more passes on radial slicks than anyone who has or will post here on this subject. I've also been 1.28 60 foot on 30 x 10.5 radial slicks with my former 3880 lb. ride and 1.17 60 foot on 32 x 13.5 radial slicks with my current 3144 lb. ride, both footbrake launched, both legal stock and super stock cars respectively sans engine and both with more power under the hood than the majority of stock and super stock cars. The only thing maybe I'm doing wrong is offering 1st hand advice based on 14 seasons and thousands of passes made on radial slicks, to you.

[Jim Kaekel]

Originally Posted by 1320racer

It's a safe bet I've made more passes on radial slicks than anyone who has or will post here on this subject. I've also been 1.28 60 foot on 30 x 10.5 radial slicks with my former 3880 lb. ride and 1.17 60 foot on 32 x 13.5 radial slicks with my current 3144 lb. ride, both footbrake launched, both legal stock and super stock cars respectively sans engine and both with more power under the hood than the majority of stock and super stock cars. The only thing maybe I'm doing wrong is offering 1st hand advice based on 14 seasons and thousands of passes made on radial slicks, to you.

Full of yourself....yet again.

[1320racer]

What part of the TRUTH and the FACTS don't you like?

[Ed Wright]

Some of us have only been doing this 50 years, and have been quicker that that in 60' on 9" radials foot braking. But what the heck do we know? Guess since we don't cut & paste that same screed into every other post......

[ssracerjr]

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

Some of us have only been doing this 50 years, and have been quicker that that in 60' on 9" radials foot braking. But what the heck do we know? Guess since we don't cut & paste that same screed into every other post......

Ed's problem is that he was recently banned from yet another forum....this one intended for kids who race. So now, this is his only playground. Best thing to do is just ignore him and hope he goes away. WE all know he is full of it.

[1320racer]

1. I was not banned from another forum

2. I've been posting here for 6 years, you on the other hand registered 4 months ago with an agenda, having 3 total posts here to date in the past 8 weeks of which 2 are in response to my replies.

3. if you only had the balls to say to my face what you type on a message board hiding behind a screen name!

WE all know people like you, nobodies with opinions that have nothing and done nothing!!

[Ed Wright]

Don't have a picture of it to post, but this morning Todd Patterson just went 1.270 in 60' at Vegas, foot braking on 9" tires in the 2012 COPO Camaro Stocker I'm helping tune that he is driving for Husky Liners.

[1320racer]

quick 60 foot for sure but one would hope that a ~ 3200 lb. purpose built, hand built, $100,000 stocker, whose prototype was designed/engineered by MPR, a car that is nearer to $125,000 going down the track, powered by a purpose built EFI 427 SBC designed specifically for this car, for stock/super and which is the result of 50+ years of R &D and that makes more power than any factory BBC, would be able to achieve that 60 foot.

Not so impressive when you consider that my former ride, a production passenger car designed/engineered prior to 1968, built on an assembly line in early '68, that accumulated over 100,000 street miles before being restified over 2 years starting in late '85 that upon completion, sat under a cover for 4 years before being transformed into a weekend street/strip car with bolt on parts that 6 years ago 60 footed 1.28 off the footbrake while weighing 3880 lbs. and still retaining it's full factory interior including the factory console and staple shifter along with power steering, power brakes, tilt wheel as well it's ALL steel body and bumpers.

BTW, my Chevelle 60 footed/ET the same on 9" radials as it did 10.5".

[Jim Kaekel]

Originally Posted by 1320racer
Not so impressive when you consider that my former ride, a production passenger car designed/engineered prior to 1968, built on an assembly line in early '68, that accumulated over 100,000 street miles before being restified over 2 years starting in late '85 that upon completion, sat under a cover for 4 years before being transformed into a weekend street/strip car with bolt on parts that [b

6 years ago 60 footed 1.28 off the footbrake while weighing 3880 lbs.[/b] and still retaining it's full factory interior including the factory console and staple shifter along with power steering, power brakes, tilt wheel as well it's ALL steel body and bumpers.
BTW, my Chevelle 60 footed/ET the same on 9" radials as it did 10.5".

Now here's a guy with an ego of enormous proportions! I'm surprised you never "hit it big" on Pinks!