28 x 9 Radial
 

Are any of the tire guys making a 28 x 9 radial slick? Would anyone else out there buy a set if they were available?

Jim Mantle 6632 U/V/SA

Re: 28 x 9 Radial
 

Funny I was wondering the other day if such a tire existed, shortly I will be in need of some if they exist.

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I would sure be interested!

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I was looking at a pair of 28 x 9 Hoosiers today. Not sure whether they were radials but they were drag slicks.

Re: 28 x 9 Radial
 

Count me in for a couple sets.

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Just made a call to the place that had the tires only to find out they are not radials. N/A at this time . Sorry guys. Seems that there is a building interest in that size tire.

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What about drag radials? I saw an A/SA car running a pair back east and ran very fast with them

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I have also been looking for quite some time for someone to start producing a 28 x 9 radial slick, but at this point I haven't found anyone making them.....I currently run a BFG Drag Radial in a 275/60R-15 which is 28 inches tall and specs a listed tread width of 8.9 inches......handles a lot better for me than any slick did and traction is a non issue for me also...remember it is best to run a radial on the front also for best handling.....


D L Rambo.......Stk 1300

Re: 28 x 9 Radial
 

Mark, I thought of trying them untill I found out how heavy the are.
MT 28 x 9 slick - 22 lbs
MT drag radial about the same size - 30 lbs

Jim Mantle

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I thought the same thing about the weight way back in '05 when the street drag radials came out. I put on the M/T radials anyway and ran the quickest 60 ft by .04 and faster mph with no other changes. This was in a 13.0second car.

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I've been running a 275/60R-15 Hoosier Drag Radial on my car. IHRA allows any size DOT tire, but I'm not sure what NHRA would say. I didn't have a chance to measure the new set, but the old set measured 9-7/8 on one and 10-1/8 on the other about half way through their life.

I really do not want to cut the wheel well on the Firebird to fit a 30x9 radial.

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Goodyear is the closest with a 9x30 but 91" rollout. Problem is I dont know if they are still making it currently.

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I ran the Hoosier 275/60 for some time. Really good tire, fairly light at 24 lbs each.

The new M/T 3754X Pro 275 D/R tire has been talked about in the high hp X275 stuff so I decided to try them out even though they are much heavier at 32 lbs each.

At first I thought the weight may have slowed the car some, but till the end of the season we made all new best passes the whole season.

Great tire, very consistent throughout conditions from 102 degree air/140-150 track temp to 44 degree cold track days. Went a best 60' of 1.129 at 2925 lbs on a naturally aspirated, stock suspension 79 Malibu.

If allowed by NHRA, the 3754X is definitely worth trying.