Is there a slick out there for a 17x8 rim?

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Im getting some other rims soon and my friend was thinkin wed just slap some slicks on these stock cobra wheels. Say we needed to run a smaller rim would the cobra rear brakes still clear? Tho running a smaller rim is not really an option

 

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smaller rims in the rear shouldnt be a problem on the cobra, its the front where you need the bigger ones

 

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Yea u can run smaller rims in the rear. The best tire you could get for a 17" rim would be the new et street DR's. They are supposed to be awesome for the track

 

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yellow1995Cobra said:

Yea u can run smaller rims in the rear. The best tire you could get for a 17" rim would be the new et street DR's. They are supposed to be awesome for the track

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uhh who makes them? you say the new so im not sure which ones ur talking about

 

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Mickey Thompson makes them. You can also look into the new Hoosier drag radial. Both are available through summitracing.com . The MTs are going to be my next tire. My Nittos were pretty good, can just imagine what they are like.

 

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Yeah the MT are suppose to be very good. I had the BFG DR's in 17in and they were awesome.

 

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check out the link in my sig

26x11.5x17 et streets

 

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Jackie Chan said:

check out the link in my sig

26x11.5x17 et streets

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how many tenths did the e.t. streets drop you?

 

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well, i cant launch too hard on them because the susp sucks. so i have not gotten everything out of them yet. I had to DD my cobra here for a little while so I took them off.

But on street tires i was running 13.4's in worse weather with 1.9s so with corrections the tires got me about 3-4 tenths. Now when i can air them down a little and come out of the hole hard, i should be in the mid 1.6s on them

 

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Jackie Chan said:

check out the link in my sig

26x11.5x17 et streets

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26x11.5x17 ? 11.5in wide tire fits on the 8in rim? im confused

summit says "Minimum Recommended Rim Width (in): 8.5"

and how come the hoosiers concave in the middle

 

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dont know about the hoosiers. all i can tell you is what i have experience with. there are pics of the mts in my sig

 

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You need to run an 8-9" rim in the 26x11.5/17 ET Street. It is technically a 26x9 tire size...that's just the way MT measures their ET Street tires. I have a set of them on my 17x8 cobra wheel and they fit great. The 275/40r17 MT ET Street Radial is very nice tire as well.

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