Drag Radials

[HawkBrosMav]

Car works great 60's within .010 all day just trying some new stuff.

What kind of burnout should I do with the radials? Bigger smaller or the same as with the bais slick?

[Ed Wright]

I would put them on 10" wheels. I used to run 9"X30" Hoosiers when I was bracket racing mine. Mine hooked better with more air on the 10" than on 8" wheels. Fastest passes it made on those were with 23 to 25 psi. They were well over a tenth quicker than same size bias tires, A-B-A (back-to-back-to back) same night.

[1320racer]

bias or radial, many do too long a burnout. Tires need to be cleaned, not heated or worse boiled.

My burnouts are no more than 4 seconds.

Been running radials for the past 14 seasons and ain't ever seen a tenth no mind quicker with my BBC cars.

[HawkBrosMav]

Ed,

we debated between the 8 and the 10 inch wheel the 8 just seems like it is going to be easier to make fit and we are only going in the mid to low 12's so we wanted a smaller footprint on the ground.. if we made the power you did no question we would have gone with the 10 inch tire. This is all new to us... only ever ran a bias slick so 20 23 25 all seems like wayyy to much air.. haha heck the 14.5 we have in the bias tire is way more than we usually run.

1320.. were only looking for .05.. any more than that is icing on the cake.. but we've heard from several.... lets estimate on the low side and say 25 people with multiple combos and all have told us we could see up to a full .15 faster... maybe youre doing something wrong.. just saying

Brad

[1320racer]

Originally Posted by HawkBrosMav

1320.. maybe youre doing something wrong.. just saying

Brad

It's a safe bet I've made more passes on radial slicks than anyone who has or will post here on this subject. I've also been 1.28 60 foot on 30 x 10.5 radial slicks with my former 3880 lb. ride and 1.17 60 foot on 32 x 13.5 radial slicks with my current 3144 lb. ride, both footbrake launched, both legal stock and super stock cars respectively sans engine and both with more power under the hood than the majority of stock and super stock cars. The only thing maybe I'm doing wrong is offering 1st hand advice based on 14 seasons and thousands of passes made on radial slicks, to you.

[Jim Kaekel]

Originally Posted by 1320racer

It's a safe bet I've made more passes on radial slicks than anyone who has or will post here on this subject. I've also been 1.28 60 foot on 30 x 10.5 radial slicks with my former 3880 lb. ride and 1.17 60 foot on 32 x 13.5 radial slicks with my current 3144 lb. ride, both footbrake launched, both legal stock and super stock cars respectively sans engine and both with more power under the hood than the majority of stock and super stock cars. The only thing maybe I'm doing wrong is offering 1st hand advice based on 14 seasons and thousands of passes made on radial slicks, to you.

Full of yourself....yet again.

[1320racer]

What part of the TRUTH and the FACTS don't you like?

[Ed Wright]

Some of us have only been doing this 50 years, and have been quicker that that in 60' on 9" radials foot braking. But what the heck do we know? Guess since we don't cut & paste that same screed into every other post......

[ssracerjr]

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

Some of us have only been doing this 50 years, and have been quicker that that in 60' on 9" radials foot braking. But what the heck do we know? Guess since we don't cut & paste that same screed into every other post......

Ed's problem is that he was recently banned from yet another forum....this one intended for kids who race. So now, this is his only playground. Best thing to do is just ignore him and hope he goes away. WE all know he is full of it.

[SStockDart]

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

Some of us have only been doing this 50 years, and have been quicker that that in 60' on 9" radials foot braking. But what the heck do we know? Guess since we don't cut & paste that same screed into every other post......

Son of a B.........Now that you mentioned it, it was 50 years ago, this year, that I raced in my first NHRA race at Flightland north of Omaha. I guess that if I haven't had enough sense to stop by now, I might as well do it for the rest of my life....LOL

Oh, but we didn't have radials then, as you know, we used 7 inch cheaters that we usually had to put on jack stands and file them down.....I still have the scars... And I am sure that my 56 Chevy went faster than a 1.27 60 ft.....but we just didn't have any short times then..LOL