So what was your best ET tonight?? The radials might be slowing you down like I said earlier...You might have to use those for nitrous passes only.

 

Well i like to post my results good or bad, so here goes,lol the drag radials hooked very well, almost too good, lol it felt definatly diffrent driving them down the track than regular tires.. The 60ft's improved pretty nicely about .15 from my avg of 2.1 with the kdw tires.. out of 7 runs tonight 5 where 1.9's the others where a very low 2.009 and a 2.036 so noticibly this is a big change in the right direction, i got better 60ft's by mash and go technique the 2.0's where with the 2k stall technique.. The truck seemed to accelerate a tad faster to the 1/8th and felt almost identical in top end speed even though the traps i was crossing at 5500rpms.. up from 5000rpms with the 31.5 tires. the times are almost identical to what i had before which really leads me to believe the humidity sucked! checked when i got home it was 53F with 76% humidity (hopefully that's why i didnt break my other record..) what made me really happy is my trap speed didnt change at all if any compared to last time i raced i didnt want to lose my mph in top end Randy or RB's Titan datalogged more stuff for me and low and behold im running slightly rich low 12's some 11.8's in some areas.. I think this is due to being tuned for the ngk iridiums cold plugs for nitrous on my na map.. i might go back after x-mas and see if they can lean me out to 12.6 to gain more hp..
my a/f looked like a bunch of WWWWWWWWWWW all the way across up/down/up/down/up/down so im thinking my tune might be suffering a tad from having the stock plugs back in there.. thanks for datalogging for me randy maybe i can get this sorted out with jared on the way back to arlington next week..
here's the timeslips nuthing too impressive but the 60's did improve so with better weather maybe i'll hit a 14.1 hopefully..


ohh matt the tires hooked excellent with 25psi maybe my tires just needed to be broke in a tad i dont think the previous owner had more than a few passes on them they still had the knobby **** on top of the thread patch on top of the tire, maybe next time i can get them to hook with 28psi.. might also start the weight reduction program, try to ditch 350pds off my truck she weighed in at 5020 today about 15lbs lighter than last time, i think that is from the wheels, the wheels feel much lighter than that but the scale might not even be super accurate..

 

yea, you need to get your tune on and better weather and I say you'll see 13s. Thanks for keeping us up to date

 

the old kdw's used to grab fairly well with 32psi and would net a good 60' what is the tire pressure most people use in drag radials to get a good 60'?? at first i tried 28psi but it spun off the line i think i shouldve tested that psi more till the track warmed up.. i was the first person down the track so i shouldnt have based my times off of that run :/ guess next fri i will experiment more with 28-30psi see if i can drop the 60' anymore

 

I hooked them with 28psi and was cutting 1.88 60' times, so I think you should play with them a little more before dropping to 25psi like the other night.

 

good to know the tires are dropping the 60ft... my buddy said he raced you fri... (green chevy crewcab)....

 

dont really remember racing a truck, maybe i did, who won? lol i remember racing a 3000gt i tree'ed him good but he beat me in e.t. by like 2/100ths also raced some red camaro 2ce both times i hung with him till little bit past 600ft then he pulled on me hard after the 1/8th where my truck falls flat on it's face cause of no cams..

 

Good tire choice, I love my M&H's. I had a set of 275's, now I have the 325's on my stock 17x9 rims. I've cut a best of 1.65 with 'em at 25psi. That was with good prep at Atco. Here at my local 1/8th mile with crappy prep I'm cutting mid 1.7's. I love being able to just drive to the track and run without having to swap tires.

 

What size are the "325"s that you are running?? ....as in, 325/50-17?? and how tall are they?

 

They're 325/45R17's, but they're not a true 325, with a 10.3" treadwidth they fit perfectly on a 9" rim. M&H is a lil weird with their sizes, the 275's are more like a 245 (they were just a hair skinnier than my 255 street tires). Both the 275's and 325's are 28" tall. That's why I went with M&H originally, they're the only company that makes a 28" tall DR for a 17" rim, turns out it's an awesome tire. They use the same compound as their slicks for the DR's, they're just kevlar belted and have some tread for the street. I've actually driven mine in the rain several times and with a light foot they were fine. Here's a pic of the 325's on a 17x9 stock R/T rim (not my truck, but same tire/rim):