[Rory McNeil]

Jesse, although I have never tried the Radial slicks with either car, my understanding is that the radial has to "dead hook". I know automatic guys who pick up over 1/10 with the radials, BUT if they spin at all off the line, they do not recover like a bias tire. Several class racers here carry a set each of radials and bias. For faster qualifying and heads up runs, they use the radials, but for the normal shoe polish stuff, they run the old bias tires. It seems also that the radials go away quicker than a bias tire, at least on a faster car, so this also allows the radials to be "saved" for when needed.
Like Jeff said, a well prepped stick car doesn`t have to hurt parts. The Jerico in my 10.0ET Fairmont is a unit that I bought used from Terry Sherrill`s old Corvette SS/AM car about 9 years ago.Other than replacing the input shaft and bearing retainer to fit my FE Ford engine, the trans has never been touched until we changed the gear ratios inside the trans.But nothing inside the trans has been replaced due to breakage, or even wear. I have a Strange chrome moly driveshaft, still perfect, and a 35 spline Dana 60 with used 4.88 Pro gears from my buddys old bracket car, and when I popped the cover last year, they still look mint.I don`t rev my engine like Jeff, but I have launched as high as 6600, shift at 6200, and goe 6700 thru the traps.Other than a couple of pilot bearings coming out of the crank, the only thing I`ve broken in all this time was a fingernail!