Slicks on the Street?

KENNEBELL2.6

KENNEBELL2.6

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What pressure is a good starting point for the street? It's for my mustang. The car is just over 500rwhp. Any help is appreciated.
 
Thanks! Someone told me 10-12 and it didnt work too well. I thought it should hook HARD the slicks are 28x12.5's and it's got a pretty decent suspension setup.
 
Not gonna hook up good on the street anyway.
I had 26x11x17 mt et streets for about 2 mths last year & went back to bfg dr's. & now hoosiers.
 
KENNEBELL2.6 said:
Thanks! Someone told me 10-12 and it didnt work too well. I thought it should hook HARD the slicks are 28x12.5's and it's got a pretty decent suspension setup.
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Slicks will hook great at 10-12 psi on a prepped track, but on a roadway they are no better than a good drag radial. Actually if you plan to race with them at the track you will quickly ruin them driving on the street.

--Joe
 
soap said:
Slicks will hook great at 10-12 psi on a prepped track, but on a roadway they are no better than a good drag radial. Actually if you plan to race with them at the track you will quickly ruin them driving on the street.

--Joe
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yeah i wore the slicks out on the street one night and they were no better. they actually were worse because the gravel would stick to them and youd be trying to launch on gravelly tires, and im not gonna clean them off and do a burnout at every light. I have my best luck on the street with Nittos or BFG DR's
 
i had 27x11.5 hoosier quicktime pro's last yr and on motor it would spin and the car would only go 12.90 this yr with more motor and mt radials it doesnt spin at all and the car went 12.60
 
Ok maybe my tire guage is wrong but I tryed to put 18,16,14 psi and none of those seemed to work. I then went down to 12 and was hooking pretty damn good. However it did skate around a little more in the rear with the lesser amount of air.
 
It looked like you had to pedal it quite a but last night when you ran that black mustang, he hooked ok, but i didnt notice what kind of tires he was running. That black top isnt going to hook worth a shit anyway. Maybe we could start taking donations to buy some traction compound to spray the road down there.
 
Yeah. It hooked great 3 out of 5 times last night. 2 of the times I had to peddal a little bit. Did you see me get killed by Jasons T/A? That was 800 to my 500hp. I think he was still spinning when he passed me.
 
Careful which front tires you have. Radials will put you sideways shitting your pants @ 100mph.
Don't get caught in the rain either.
 
i run the et drag with 10lbs on the street..do a good burn out and i have no problems..even pull a tire on the street..and i got stock 4banger suspension.. thats of course with a good burnout in vht and backing up into my marks
 
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Teef racing said:
i run the et drag with 10lbs on the street..do a good burn out and i have no problems..even pull a tire on the street..and i got stock 4banger suspension.. thats of course with a good burnout in vht and backing up into my marks
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x2, this is on the street with 10lbs on motor with vht




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