What tires??

[MFIELD]

I need a set of new tires this year and cant decide what to go with. I am running an old set of ET streets and they work fairly well but the car is very loose fealing on the big end. Based on what I have read that is from mixing tires on front and rear. Bias and Radial. Has anyone used the MT ET radial? I have read that a stick car needs a stiff sidewall, that is why I'm leaning towards the radial. Someone please educate me farther. I am running UMTR this year so I want to get something consistant.

[89notch]

I've heard nothing but bad things about the ET radial on stick cars. I've always heard stick cars should stick with the BFG's

[Jeff88coupe]

Auto's work good with DR's, Stick cars work easier with a bias wall tire (et street or drag). You can make a stick car work good with a dr..but it takes alot of suspension fine tuning and track testing (look at the NMRA F/S guys).

[Timido]

I think alot of it also has to do with what size rim you have the tires on and if they are properly ballanced. I had good luck with the ET Radials I ran 275-60's and 325-50's They were fine on my car with the Transbrake on motor. I had a hard time leaving on the spray right off the brake without a smoke show. They were like a sunday drive on the big end. I had Et Street fronts at the time. The radials are harder to get the 60ft figured out if you are really shocking the tire like a stick car or power adder car would. The 28x10.5-S Stiff wall slicks I ran next and they Hooked from the go liked the nitrous off the brake and really supprised me on the big end they were smooth as the Radials were.

[MFIELD]

Thanks guys, I'll look into those stiff wall tires Tim. Do they make them in the et street or just the drags?

[Timido]

Drags. I would run them with Bias Ply fronts. I remember that feeling of radial front tires with Et streets on my 88 that was a weird shake down the track.