Drag radials and 2:73s

BruhBrahBrad · May 1, 2011

Me and some friends are talkin about hittin the track this weekend, and Im tryin to borrow PI96gt's radials...but I only have 2:73s. Would it be a bad Idea to run those tires? Im thinking I might bog, or have to rev it up and launch to the point where I might break somethin. I cant run my cobra r's cause one of the tires got a nail in it the other day, so I have my stocks on the back.

duff daddy · May 1, 2011

gears wont have much to do with it, you will bog pretty bad and as a rule of thumb you have a better chance of breaking something with drag radials then with slicks.

BruhBrahBrad · May 1, 2011

Yeah thats what I was thinking...And they are mickey Et's I hear those stick pretty well.

OnyxCobra · May 1, 2011

My friend snapped his stock axle bogging with stock gears and Nitto DRs, but he was launching really high. Just because you have DRs doesn't mean you have to go crazy with them. If you can't go with your current tires just use them and take it easy.

BruhBrahBrad · May 1, 2011

So maybe no more than 2000rpms?

MustangMatt96GT · May 1, 2011

grow a pair! I launched on nitrous at 5000 RPM on a stock t45, stock rear end, and slicks.... Lets just say I still have the same rear end in my car..... It breaks, its time to upgrade...

BruhBrahBrad · May 1, 2011

lmao. yeah im just new to the radials. i've tracked before but never on radials.

duff daddy · May 3, 2011

Its the same as a street tire for all intensive purposes, wait till you run slicks and you get the top end wiggle....

Rice_slayer · May 3, 2011

Duff Daddy said:
Its the same as a street tire for all intensive purposes, wait till you run slicks and you get the top end wiggle....

Top end wiggle on slicks for the first time almost made me sh*t my pants

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duff daddy · May 3, 2011

Just keep in it and it will go away, its when people try to correct for it and they eat the wall...

OnyxCobra · May 3, 2011

what's this top end wiggle you guys are talking about?

duff daddy · May 3, 2011

1,000'.... full size front tires, and slicks out back. the back end of the car will sway left to right until you let off the throttle, it feels like your in a full size pick up with the side walls deflecting and just rolling over,its AWESOME. Love the feeling but with skinnies, its gone.

OnyxCobra · May 3, 2011

Geez, is there a reason it happens? How do skinnies do away with it? Is it speed related?

duff daddy · May 4, 2011

Its odd I dont know why its not there with skinnies but it isnt .... no rhyme or reason, but its not.

MustangMatt96GT · May 5, 2011

I have gotten it with my skinnies on passes over 120 mph

duff daddy · May 5, 2011

I wont see 120 for a while im thinking.

Rice_slayer · May 6, 2011

I had 275/35r18s on the front and 26x8.5x15 ET drags out back, it freaked me out lol. I need to get skinnies, but skinny rims are as much as my saleen ones :/

Venom351R · May 23, 2011

The slick wobble is crazy I thought for sure I was going to wreck. I won't miss it once I get duffys skinnes on the front

duff daddy · May 23, 2011

Venom351R said:
The slick wobble is crazy I thought for sure I was going to wreck. I won't miss it once I get duffys skinnes on the front

I took the tires off he wheels today and wrote pushrods suck on the inside of them...

Musturd · May 23, 2011

Yea your better to launch higher so you don't dead hook and break something I launched at 5 grand on my stock axeled 96gt over a 100 passes killed a axel at the end of the season. I was running 26 11.50 16 et street bias tires