I Love My ET Street Radials!!

silverstangman

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Thought i would post this if any of you have thought about running Mickey Thompson E/T Street Radials. They are awesome, ive got 275/50's on my vert with prostars and with bone stock suspension, have gotten 1.72 60' times, pretty impressive when compared to the 2.3-2.5 stock times I think. Working on my suspension right now and after that I should be tearing that 60 foots ass up. Great tires, i drive back and forth to the track on em with no problems. Suck in the rain though, found that out pretty quick. I highly recommend em for those of you who have to drive your car back and forth to the track. i heard from someone that hot rod magazine tested em against the regular et streets and the radials actually got better times, after running the car I can actually believe it.

 

Jackie Chan

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i am going to run them for ffw. but i have to say, it would be hard for me to believe they hook as hard as et streets. My susp is so F'ed up and i cut low 1.7s coming out of the hole weak as hell.

 

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Yeah, these tires are amazing, they're a night a day difference from my nitto DR's. I also read that article, I thought it was in a mustang mag though?

 

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i had heard it was hot rod, ive never read the article myself though. i mean they hook sooo good even on my stock (until next weekend) suspension. i can dump the clutch at like 4,500 and they barely squeal its amazing. nmra outlawed them i know, there has to be a reason, some people have said because they hook too good basically an et street with a small amount of tread cut in them. anyway you turn it, i love em and as long as i have to drive back and forth to the drag races i will have em on my car.

 

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I concurr, those are some sick tires...now they need to make um in 18's

 

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x2

 

zenboy99

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You ever stick your thumb into one on a hot day? Its like driving on gum.

I think you're right, the article was hotrod.

The only problem with these tires (wich is understandable) is their longevity.

 

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for sure.... i love mine. cut 1.7's as well with stock suspension, 3.73's and like 220whp

 

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They work just as good as slicks..my local bud tried them out on his fox. He upped his kit to a 200..sprayed outta the hole and went a 1.39 60ft with fox 4cyl springs, and 90/10s..haha insane on a 302c.i and even E7 heads

Both tires up

 

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I love mine too, love them so much that I only made two passes on them before I took the off. I snapped an axle on them. Just be careful of launching on stock axles at that RPM, I was dumping the clutch at 4000 and next thing I know POW. Had to tow it home.

But I really do like the tires, they are awesome and compare to ET Drags in my book and 60's between the two are very close with on my car. I can cut low 1.6's on both.

 

silverstangman

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zenboy99 said:

You ever stick your thumb into one on a hot day? Its like driving on gum.

I think you're right, the article was hotrod.

The only problem with these tires (wich is understandable) is their longevity.

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yeah they are pretty soft, ive had em on my car for about 3 months, and i drive out to the shop to work on it just about every weekend and race it about every 2-3 weeks and they still look almost brand new. except for the fact that my tailpipe was rubbing on the passenger side tire and took a nice solid 1/4" off the whole inside of the tire, which still pisses me off. Luckily I fixed it before it got too bad. they suck in the rain too, they kinda just hover over the water instead of going through it lol.

 

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slvrbullit302 said:

I love mine too, love them so much that I only made two passes on them before I took the off. I snapped an axle on them. Just be careful of launching on stock axles at that RPM, I was dumping the clutch at 4000 and next thing I know POW. Had to tow it home.

But I really do like the tires, they are awesome and compare to ET Drags in my book and 60's between the two are very close with on my car. I can cut low 1.6's on both.

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read sig, moser 33 splines, spool and c-clip elim. that rearend isn't going to giveway too easily, now the stock t-5, is counting its days lol. I put my prostars and et street radials on first and waited a few weeks to :Track: so i could get my moser kit in because i knew it would break an axle.

 

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silverstangman said:

read sig, moser 33 splines, spool and c-clip elim. that rearend isn't going to giveway too easily, now the stock t-5, is counting its days lol. I put my prostars and et street radials on first and waited a few weeks to :Track: so i could get my moser kit in because i knew it would break an axle.

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Cool, did not read the sig. I am in the same boat with the ole stock T-5.

 

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silverstangman said:

except for the fact that my tailpipe was rubbing on the passenger side tire and took a nice solid 1/4" off the whole inside of the tire, which still pisses me off. Luckily I fixed it before it got too bad. .

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Wow, exact same thing happened to me too. 1/4" off on the passenger side. I had to hammer the exhaust pipe over.

 

silverstangman

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on my ridiculousy expensive bassani catback no hammer will ever hit it lol. my boy was trying to tell me he was going to hit it with a hammer and i was like dude you hit that tailpipe with a hammer and im gonna hit your face with it next. all i had to was loosen the tailpipe clamp and turn it inwards, it was also hitting the frame, so i kept if about half and half, half from hitting the tire, half from hitting the frame.