Best hooking tire for a stock 17x8 wheel

[03ghoststang]

I saw two tires on the Mickey Thompson website. ET Streets and ET Street Radials. The ET Street has really thin sipes going down the middle. It almost looks like a slick. Jegs P/N 672-3743.

The second one has the wider sipes and has two going down the middle and the diagonal ones along the edges. Jegs P/N 672-3743R.

Which one were you talking about?

the first ones the one that is almost a slick

 

[Jackie Chan]

the first one. in all honesty, i would go with the cheaper of the two, with a properly stalled auto and good suspension you should be able to pull low 1.7s high 1.6s on either

 

[propellerhead]

Summit Racing and Jegs have them priced about the same. A couple of dollars difference. I'm split down the middle, maybe leaning a bit more towards the ET Street Radials.

I'm reading a thread on another msg board where a couple of people said they talked to Mickey Thompson (the company, not Mickey himself ) and they were both told the ET Streets (sort of slicks) are more geared for 5-speeds and the ET Street Radials (not so slicks) are more geared for automatics. I'm still not sure why but that just pushes me more toward the ET SR.

 

[Jackie Chan]

my best friends father's fox body with a stock motor, c-4 and a stall went into the mid 1.6s on the DRs @ about 3100-3200lbs race weight so you cant go wrong with them. He also was running 19psi i think either will work for you, but the DR's will be better for street and track duty if need be and last longer as well. I have my et streets in the closet at home at about 3/4 tread and cant wait to remount them