Consolidating Classes

[GarysZ24]

Originally Posted by Dennis P Chapman

Hey Gary
You want to sell those 20" tires Lol.

I might have to consider it Dennis, but like someone else said, I like these tires because they fit my lightweight Cragar (14" X 8") wheels. I'll have to buy bigger or smaller wheels in order to use those sizes that Billy spoke of here, and I'm not ready to do that yet. So I'll wear these out, and go from there.

However, one reason I'm lookin forward to the different sized tires is by going at least 2" taller, I'll be able to stop having to change over from taller trailer fitting tires, to being able to go to the races ready to unload the car, and head right to tech...at 52 I;m not much of a spring chicken anymore...lol!!!

[Ed Wright]

Heck Gary, wait until your 67!

[GarysZ24]

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

Heck Gary, wait until your 67!

Ed, congrats for your making it to 67!!! I hope I can make it to 67...heck into my 70's would be awesome...but it's not all up to me for that? I'll say this though, the time I waste changing those street towing tires that I have on my front end during my travels, to the slicks, will be eliminated...thus being race ready once the car is off of the trailer!

I had the ideal given to me to adjust the angle of my trailer during loading and unloading, so I could tow my car as such, but those small slicks didn't hold air like the bigger ones you rwd racers use (even with tubes in them???), so that was a "one and done" effort for me!

[Dennis P Chapman]

Originally Posted by GarysZ24

I might have to consider it Dennis, but like someone else said, I like these tires because they fit my lightweight Cragar (14" X 8") wheels. I'll have to buy bigger or smaller wheels in order to use those sizes that Billy spoke of here, and I'm not ready to do that yet. So I'll wear these out, and go from there.

However, one reason I'm lookin forward to the different sized tires is by going at least 2" taller, I'll be able to stop having to change over from taller trailer fitting tires, to being able to go to the races ready to unload the car, and head right to tech...at 52 I;m not much of a spring chicken anymore...lol!!!

Gary I am 57 I know what you mean Lol

[Michael Beard]

Anybody got any 4x100mm 15x4-ish rims? I'd really like to ditch the steel-belted radials I have on the back of the Turismo in favor of some M/T front-runners.

[art leong]

Originally Posted by Michael Beard

Anybody got any 4x100mm 15x4-ish rims? I'd really like to ditch the steel-belted radials I have on the back of the Turismo in favor of some M/T front-runners.

Mike I think the Honda guys use a 4x100mm bolt pattern Try there websites.
You will have to steam the rice off them though. LOL

[art leong]

If the 14" tires are not available anymore It will slow me down a bunch It will be like switching from a 3.73 gear to a 3.0 gear. I guess I'll have to go over on the crybaby side and beg for a softer index.
Nah!!!! only fooling LOL I'll never go over. LOL


I know there are circle track tires that are 20" tall but don't know how they'll hook.

[Chad Rhodes]

Originally Posted by art leong

If the 14" tires are not available anymore It will slow me down a bunch It will be like switching from a 3.73 gear to a 3.0 gear. I guess I'll have to go over on the crybaby side and beg for a softer index.
Nah!!!! only fooling LOL I'll never go over. LOL


I know there are circle track tires that are 20" tall but don't know how they'll hook.

is there a short drag radial availalbe? maybe a M/T ET Drag for a bike?

[art leong]

Originally Posted by Chad Rhodes

is there a short drag radial availalbe? maybe a M/T ET Drag for a bike?

I tried drag radials a ways back they were still 22" tall and were not any good in the traction dept. Remember there is not much we can do to help traction, weight transfer is our enemy.

[GarysZ24]

Originally Posted by art leong

If the 14" tires are not available anymore It will slow me down a bunch It will be like switching from a 3.73 gear to a 3.0 gear. I guess I'll have to go over on the crybaby side and beg for a softer index.
Nah!!!! only fooling LOL I'll never go over. LOL


I know there are circle track tires that are 20" tall but don't know how they'll hook.

I'm with you Art on the tire size thing, and I was hoping that I could prove it the same on my car by checking out how my car ran at the Div. 5 ET Finals in Topeka this year...driving around the water, auto shifting, and not stahling my convertor. My best run was .23 over the index for DF/S, which I would've accepted if not for one other comparo...I went back to the same race (2006), where I had my did the burnouts, manual shifted my tranny, and stahled my convertor to 3600rpm.'s. I couldn't believe it, but I ran the exact same best e.t. of 15.53! So now that we have to deal without our beloved 14" wheeled slicks, I'm going to have to replace that lost momentum somewhere else...like a cam change and/or a set of headers!!! Speaking of the latter, Does anyone here know if someone is still in posession of a set of the headers that Hooker used to make for the 60 degree Chevy V6? Randy Hyman seemingly is the only person (other than me) that's running that engine, and his (formerly Linda Sherman D-1) Citation is the only one I know of that has those (now defunct) headers on it? Otherwise, I'll have to scrap my pennies together to have a customized set built...the only offer I've heard of so far was $1,000 for a set (for a six-cylinder engine when V8 regular headers can be had in a Jegs or Summit catalog for less than half of that), seems a bit much...too much for me anytime soon!!!