To screw tires to rim or not and more tire questions... for a 3900 lb truck with a 15 by 10 rim......

whatbumper wrote:I don't know about the bb guys but that is a better weight bias than I had with my sb nitrous combo last year. I will post the exact numbers tomorrow as I will be scaling and testing today.

We have to test when we can being farmers and all. Busy time of the year.

my brother called earlier and they scaled the car already today. it is at 53% front and 47% rear.

He told me that was pretty ideal for a fox body so I think your truck is pretty good at the percentages you mentioned above.

whatbumper wrote:

whatbumper wrote:I don't know about the bb guys but that is a better weight bias than I had with my sb nitrous combo last year. I will post the exact numbers tomorrow as I will be scaling and testing today.

We have to test when we can being farmers and all. Busy time of the year.

my brother called earlier and they scaled the car already today. it is at 53% front and 47% rear.

He told me that was pretty ideal for a fox body so I think your truck is pretty good at the percentages you mentioned above.

I will have to scale it again after I'm done changing things. It would be neat to get somewhere near 47% rear but I don't think I could get there unless I chopped out the stock front suspension and went mustang II like Doug did with his nuclear banana build. I see hoosier makes a 29/10.5-15W stiff sidewall tire. I wonder if Phillip Oakley has sold any of them and has any feedback he can share on them?? Looks like they are cheaper than the M/T's comparable tire. Doesn't look like M/T has a ET Drag that is a 10.5W with a stiff sidewall....

BlueF100FE, you know how they say the ET streets are almost as good as their full slicks? Well, they lie. I was a die hard ET Street guy as I drove my junk all around town on weekend nights. I also couldn't get any real consistency out of my launches at the strip. I went up & down with air pressure, launch rpm, how hard the NOS came on... I finally said screw it and got a set of ET Drags. I swear I heard angles singing and the clouds parted when I first launched on them. I have an uncut '69 Mach 1 and its no light weight at about 3400lbs. My combo seems to like 13psi in them. No top end squirm like the ET Streets had either. I screwed them for safety and don't use tubes. They bleed off pressure but its worth it to hook like that.