Fox How is it driving on skinnies?

I’ve used these with my welds.

The only car I ever owned and drove with skinny front tires was my 87 with a 460. The combination of that extra weight and manual converted 4 cylinder brakes made those tires very scary on the street. The front would push through corners and the front tires would lock up during aggressive braking. Never would've driven in the slightest moist road conditions. I can remember waiting for the dew to dry in the morning before driving. That car was a complete death trap....and wasn't that fast either.

Those were 3.5 inch skinnies. I'd never do that again. Cheaper ( than crashing ) to buy a wider set for the front and enough room for the skinnies in the trunk.

Ran em back in the day. Had 1 tire go flat (think i hit a pothole on highway) And was in the rain counting grams of weed (in bags) or something looking down and came up on a car hit the brakes and slid into it. like 3mph. The grams went flying everywhere and i was like fck. Course my car was not fast either, but it looked badass. lol.

1. So braking is a lot less powerful
2. Potential to go flat
3. Turning at a high rate of speed feels dangerous like the wheel might fold in half. lol. Ya, pretty much lose turning fast/playing road racer in corners imo.

But damn, it looks cool.

Foxslider said:

Ran em back in the day. Had 1 tire go flat (think i hit a pothole on highway) And was in the rain counting grams of weed (in bags) or something looking down and came up on a car hit the brakes and slid into it. like 3mph. The grams went flying everywhere and i was like fck. Course my car was not fast either, but it looked badass. lol.

1. So braking is a lot less powerful
2. Potential to go flat
3. Turning at a high rate of speed feels dangerous like the wheel might fold in half. lol. Ya, pretty much lose turning fast/playing road racer in corners imo.

But damn, it looks cool.

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Yeah I ran skinnies on my old 84 for a while. For a street car, it's not worth the hassle. For anything that you're not trying to get every single hundredth of ET out of, they "might" be worth a hundredth or two. On my 84, it was a 351c with a couple JY turbos, ran 6.20's 1/8. I bought the car that way and sold it that way. At the strip one of the little turd front tires went down because of some glass on the return road so I ran home real quick and grabbed the 10 holes with 225/50/15's and put those on. I saw no difference in MPH indicating that there was very little difference in drag. Saw a little difference in ET, because of the additional weight AND they were smaller diameter than the 26" DS-2's. After that deal, I didn't see any benefit in skinnies unless it was a total drag car looking for ET and/or MPH. The taller the tires are the better the ET (slightly)-assuming they don't weight a ton, which is why you see a lot of class racers running 28"+ front tires. Weight is the biggest ET/MPH difference compared to regular street tires. DOT radials are pretty heavy compared to a set of lightweight 3.5" wide wheels and typical drag racing only narrow front tires. On my Maverick, the old school Weld Pro-Star 15x3.5 with the tires, each tire/wheel assembly weighs about 11 1/2 lbs going off of memory (I am too lazy to go dig out the spec book that I have). I don't think the OE 17x8 cobra RIM is that light on the Mustang, not even counting what the tires weigh.