Mickey Thompson ET Street Radials installed!!!!!

kooldawg6 · Sep 19, 2008

Just got another pair of Fanblades (that makes 6 now) and a set of 265/40-18 MT ET Streets. Now I hope I can run consistent 12s at will! I will find out Saturday as the NVMC has its last Drag Day of '06 (four hour private rental) at Mason Dixon Dragway near Hagerstown, MD. The car is dirty as it hasn't been washed in nearly a week and I tinted the windows in Photoshop

If you look closely, you can see the J&M LCA relocation bracket hiding under there.

NastyStang113 · Sep 19, 2008

How wide is the contact patch? They look great !!

NotQuik · Sep 19, 2008

wow, tires fit the rum great....gives me hope!

blackgt460 · Sep 19, 2008

Can I ask where you got those and the price? I am thinking of grabbing a set for my factory 18in Bullitts as I await for a drag wheel that fits adn is streetable.

DarkFireGT · Sep 19, 2008

Looking forward to the results. FWIW, I stopped putting my matching wheels on the front. Changing my wheels is a PITA, and I didn't see any gains with the little bit of weight difference.

kooldawg6 · Sep 19, 2008

NastyStang113 said:
How wide is the contact patch? They look great !!

MT states 9.6" for tread, 10.6" for section width and 26.5" for height. Recommended wheel width is 9.0-10.0", but as you can see, they fit the 8.5' very well

blackgt460 Can I ask where you got those and the price? I am thinking of grabbing a set for my factory 18in Bullitts

I got them off of eBay. Really good price ($478/free shipping) and got here in 4 days (ordered late Friday night and had them Tuesday afternoon).

bluecar · Sep 20, 2008

kooldawg6 · Sep 22, 2008

Well, after my first trip to the 1/4 mile with the new LCAs/relocation brackets and the MTs, I still could not drop that .110 to get my 12.999 I gave it thirteen tries and the best I could do was 13.022. I had two other runs in the 13.0s. I did record personal bests in 60', 330', 1/8 mile E.T., 1/8 mile MPH and 1/4 mile E.T. so it wasn't a total wash. I managed a best of a 1.901 60'. Not great, but I found out once I dropped the air pressure low enough (15 psi) to stop the tire spin, my car bogged off the line trying to overcome the new found traction. I now know I need a stall converter to help with that. Using the parking brake and the sticky tires I could get the revs up to 2500-2600 RPM before it wanted to start pushing forward. Sometime after the first of the year I plan on doing a cam swap, long tube headers, switching to a 90 mm MAF, Spydershaft and a 3000 RPM or slightly higher stall converter. Those mods hopefully will get my car to the mid to low 12s consistently. I had a blast all day long outside of not making it into the 12s!

NotQuik · Sep 22, 2008

so close man. car looks great lowered on the fanblades though.

DarkFireGT · Sep 22, 2008

Well, you hit your best at least. Everyone raves about 4.10's, and they're fun on the street. But I have 3.31's in my '07 and it's only 1 tenth slower in the 1/4 than my '05 with 4.10's. I mean, I have a few more mods in my '07, but not enough to really speak of. My MPH is higher with my '07 too.

anthony05gt · Sep 22, 2008

Nice tires.

speed1972 · Sep 23, 2008

DarkFireGT said:
Well, you hit your best at least. Everyone raves about 4.10's, and they're fun on the street. But I have 3.31's in my '07 and it's only 1 tenth slower in the 1/4 than my '05 with 4.10's. I mean, I have a few more mods in my '07, but not enough to really speak of. My MPH is higher with my '07 too.

I've actually heard that quite often and it has made me reconsider going to a steeper gear....especially now that I'm going S/C

LB

anticubicle · Sep 24, 2008

Kool your car is looking gorgeous man.

Grats on the tire setup. 12's incoming!

autumn_again · Sep 24, 2008

nice, i planned on running down at my local track tonight, but i couldn't find anyone else that wanted to go. i am gunna go broke this weekend at the swap meet probably, so i want to see what i can get out of it before modifications.

kooldawg6 · Sep 24, 2008

Here are a few goodies from Saturday

Video courtesy of NVMC member bruthru2002
This was my third of thirteen passes that day and well before I got a good burnout and really heated up the MTs. You can't see the time on my side, but it was 13.320@103+. The red car has similar mods to mine PLUS cams and LTs and is a manual. He eventually got his setup dialed in and ran two 12.5s
YouTube - NVMC Drag Day 9-20-08 (11)

Some pics of my car at the track.
My cell phone

Pics courtesy NVMC member Breadfan

Ron of Spydershaft showed up for the race session after our private rental

Mickey Thompson ET Street Radials installed!!!!!

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mine works really well and can take a fair amount

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Playing with my wife's really makes me want one.

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mine works really well and can take a fair amount

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mine works really well and can take a fair amount

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Playing with my wife's really makes me want one.

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mine works really well and can take a fair amount

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