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Old 11-01-2011, 05:51 PM   #1
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Car is a xa falcon with 500hp clevo, auto, 4500stall full weight street car.

I want to go 28" high on a 15x8 steel rim. Use to run 275/60-15's so a 28" tyre should fit.

What size slicks are recomended?
What brands are recomended?
Are the radial slicks anygood, or are the crossplys better?

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Old 11-01-2011, 08:41 PM   #2
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28's will just fit but you may need to roll the lip a little and the rim offset needs to be spot the dog. I put them on mine and lost et so i went back to 26' MICKEY TEES .
28's were hoosiers if my brain members proper??
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Old 14-01-2011, 02:16 PM   #3
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What gears are you running?
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Old 14-01-2011, 04:04 PM   #4
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Mickey Thompson definitely the way to go.
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Old 14-01-2011, 07:29 PM   #5
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28's will just fit but you may need to roll the lip a little and the rim offset needs to be spot the dog. I put them on mine and lost et so i went back to 26' MICKEY TEES .
28's were hoosiers if my brain members proper??
Every one now makes 28's, but the hoosiers have grabed my atention. I have been looking at the radials and have read a fair bit about drag radials on US drag websites over the last week.
It seems in the US in there is a catagory of racing that limits the tyres to 275 drag radials and alot of them are running under 10's on them.

I've narrowed my search to the mick's or the hoosiers in the 275/60-15 drag radials. I do like the hoosier as there is almost no tread patern compared to the micky's. Many people favour the hoosier in the US, I'm not sure why we don't here much about them in Aus.

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What gears are you running?
I will be using 4.22's

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Old 14-01-2011, 07:32 PM   #6
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I put them on mine and lost et so i went back to 26' MICKEY TEES .
Why is that? I thought the biger the tyre the beter the footprint. Did you change the gears to suit?
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Old 14-01-2011, 09:30 PM   #7
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ones I had years ago were Mickey T 28/9,5/15 from memory, had the wheels made to suit the XC and didnt have to touch the lips. Guy I sold them to put them under an XA but no idea if the lips had been done on it or not
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Old 14-01-2011, 09:41 PM   #8
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ones I had years ago were Mickey T 28/9,5/15 from memory, had the wheels made to suit the XC and didnt have to touch the lips. Guy I sold them to put them under an XA but no idea if the lips had been done on it or not
Gaurds were liped years before I got the car. The rims I'm useing are intercepters that I had widend long time ago, I use to run 275/60 15 street tyres so figered the drag radials should fit the same.
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Why is that? I thought the biger the tyre the beter the footprint. Did you change the gears to suit?
car can bog down with a bigger tyre/slick, slows it up. MT's definitely proven better, Hoosier's are good but MT's are that touch better.
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Aye go the MT's ... Hoosiers just dont hold up as well .
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