M/T Drag Radial Pro

[96LT1355Z28]

Anyone using, or personally know of someone successfully using these on a manual trans car? I've tried ET Streets but can't get the same results I had with the stiff sidewall ET Drag.

[casey20000007]

Man I use et streets and they freakin work lol they work so well that I broke my rear, I'm a six spd


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[96LT1355Z28]

I'm begining to wonder if my 8" wheel isn't the problem. I'm switching to a 10" this year and I figured I'd look into a different tire. I know there's guys flyin on ET Street's.

[casey20000007]

I'm running a 17" wheel and tire is I think 10" wide not for sure though, tires are inside car right now and car is put up for the winter


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[casey20000007]

I'm begining to wonder if my 8" wheel isn't the problem. I'm switching to a 10" this year and I figured I'd look into a different tire. I know there's guys flyin on ET Street's.

Are you spinning a lot off the line? What was you tire pressure, how big of a burnout did you do


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[BOLO]

I'm begining to wonder if my 8" wheel isn't the problem. I'm switching to a 10" this year and I figured I'd look into a different tire. I know there's guys flyin on ET Street's.
Which ET Streets? Drag radials or the DOT slicks? I hear the new MT Pro radials are even better than they're ET Streets drag radials. Right now, they only make the size 275/60-15's.

[casey20000007]

I believe they're drag radials, the street strip ones the reason I'm not sure is bc I got the rims and tires for $50 the guy had them mounted and never used them they still had a partial sticker on them, but I know for sure they're not the DOT slicks


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[casey20000007]

Which ET Streets? Drag radials or the DOT slicks? I hear the new MT Pro radials are even better than they're ET Streets drag radials. Right now, they only make the size 275/60-15's.

Sorry BOLO I thought you were him lol you can ignore my last post lol


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[Badhawk]

I'm not a manual but man I swear by those M/T drag pro radials my best 60's to date from these tires. I'm sure there has to be someone out there with a manual running these tires I'm also curious how well they worked for them.

[96LT1355Z28]

My current wheel is a 15X8 but I'm switching to a 15X10. I have the bias ply 28-12.5 ET Street and I think I'm gonna switch to the new Pro Drag Radial (it's the one that looks like a bias ply). The pro 275 is the same 28X10.0 I have now so that works out!

I ran the ET Drag at 12 psi and had consistant 1.5 60'. Went to the ET Street and couldn't get out of the 1.6's, that was with 14psi. Any more or less and the 60' got worse. Short burnout, M/T said the ET Street doesn't work any better with a prostock burnout! Unfortunatly since we lost KCIR I didn't get near the seat time I wanted to play with the shock settings. T-n-T pases on race day are no time to still be learning!

Posted on the bullet and got a few responses, one fox body mustang said he was 600hp FI car with a T5 and they worked great. Said he's on the Hoosier drag radial now and when they are done he's going back to the M/T Pro's. Other than that everyone's using auto's!

[Badhawk]

Josh, I was looking for another thread I saw about them but can't seem to find right now.

[96LT1355Z28]

I sent an email to M/T and got kind of a generic response:

"A radial will not work with manual transmission so you will not want that tire. I would go with the ET Street bias tire and start out at 16 psi and the 10” wheel ill help as well. The radials are way to stiff of a tire and has no forgiveness like a bias tire has you need some wrinkle and the radial will not allow it and will blow the tires off."

I know a radial can work, Thunderchicken has proven that. I'm worried I won't have enough track time to figure them out. Man I have been back and forth so much, as soon I make up my mind one way something else comes up and I start reconsidering all over again!

Here's the YB thread if anyone's intrested:http://www.yellowbullet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=534691

[Badhawk]

I sent an email to M/T and got kind of a generic response:

"A radial will not work with manual transmission so you will not want that tire. I would go with the ET Street bias tire and start out at 16 psi and the 10” wheel ill help as well. The radials are way to stiff of a tire and has no forgiveness like a bias tire has you need some wrinkle and the radial will not allow it and will blow the tires off."

I know a radial can work, Thunderchicken has proven that. I'm worried I won't have enough track time to figure them out. Man I have been back and forth so much, as soon I make up my mind one way something else comes up and I start reconsidering all over again!

Here's the YB thread if anyone's intrested:http://www.yellowbullet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=534691


Josh, if that's the case then you might want to check out the Hoosiers radials. I ran them with very good results like Alan and I can tell you they have a much softer sidewall almost like a slick and the M/T are more stiff.

I have a few pics with the hoosiers you can see them wrinkling the 2nd pic is on 17in Hoosiers.


http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t206/Badhawk51/2010 LTX Shootout/IMG_6675.jpg



http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t206/Badhawk51/002.jpg

[casey20000007]

Josh, if that's the case then you might want to check out the Hoosiers radials. I ran them with very good results like Alan and I can tell you they have a much softer sidewall almost like a slick and the M/T are more stiff.

I have a few pics with the hoosiers you can see them wrinkling the 2nd pic is on 17in Hoosiers.


http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t206/Badhawk51/2010 LTX Shootout/IMG_6675.jpg



http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t206/Badhawk51/002.jpg

What size slicks are those and what did they cost you, I have the MT et streets drag radials and wanna try something dif.


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[CamaroRacing12]

i will be going with the M/T Pro's once they come out with them in a 275/50/15

[Badhawk]

What size slicks are those and what did they cost you, I have the MT et streets drag radials and wanna try something dif.


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They are not slicks they are Hoosier drag radials. First pic tire size is 275/60/15 and the second pic tire size is 315/35/17


i will be going with the M/T Pro's once they come out with them in a 275/50/15


Tony, I didn't think they planned on making them in the smaller sizes because it was designed for the 275 radial class.

[Badhawk]

Someone just posted this over on LS1Tech M/T Drag Radial Pro 1.18 60" footbrake (N/A LS7), Thank you MADMAN.

That sixty is crazy for an n/a setup.

[firebird_1995]

Was that in an fbody

[96LT1355Z28]

Was that in an fbody

yup LS powered Z28

[firebird_1995]

Wow. That is pretty much proof that a slick is not completely necessary

[96LT1355Z28]

It's an auto car though, completly different transfer of torque to the tire. Impressive to say the least anyway!

[1994Z28]

I have no idea why they told you the new Mickeys won't wrinkle........I know our car is 4000lbs but at 16psi they wrinkle up very nicely! Alot of the x275 guys say that the tire doesn't like to wrinkle or work well when it wrinkles but we haven't had a problem 1 with them....You can't just slap a radial on an expect to go out there and hook, you have to have a lot of seat time to figure out your combo. Like i have said in other posts, i know guys running low 9's with stick cars right here at home on radials, not bias pli's, radials! It is done all over the country.

[96LT1355Z28]

Your post's are what have me thinking! Keep in mind though the examples you have posted are not torque arm suspension cars and are not at LT1 power levels. You've had luck with them and so have the majority of others (99.5% of which are auto's) but then some can't get them to work. Just proof that not every thing works for every car even if they're similar setups.

M/T I believe is refering to the problem of radial's not rocovering as well as a bias plys should the tire begin to spin or shake. It's no doubt they wrinkle, look at Jeff's car! Bias plys are just much more forgiving and recover quicker should they spin. I am wondering if I have the time and $ involved in getting it to work. I definatly don't have the $ to be a test dummy for others wanting to know if they will consistantly work on an M6 (as consistant as bias plys are)! Then throw in track prep varriables at different tracks and as you've said you have to have alot of time invested to launch consistantly. That's what is making the bias ply so favorable, the proven consistansey given different setups and track conditions with much less data collection time invested.

[Badhawk]

Josh, I have heard that Madman charges a small fee to talk you through getting your car setup to hook like it should. It might be worth giving him a call he would know how to make a radial work.

[96LT1355Z28]

Already did that, then I bought shocks from him! Between talking to him via phone and email for a year and hanging around Larsons shop. I've gained alot of knowledge I just can't make a decision!