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Old 09-22-2009, 12:24 AM
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This past weekend, I thought I would try something a little different on tire pressures. I typically would air mine up to 38#'s in the rear. Today, I left the rears at 26#'s (the tire pressure recommended on the door sticker) and ran them hard. I managed a 1.94 60' in my 4200#'s coming off the 'suspect lane' at Stanton. I also did not have the trouble blowing the tires off on the 1-2 shift that may people had. Some food for thought.

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Ha...I tried low pressure, high pressure, and everything in between, and 2nd gear was like a drifting contest...hazing the tires and hanging the rear out at 80+ is a bit unnerving. I was really pleased with my 60 times, as I hit a 1.8x and besides a single 2.0x every other pass was in the 1.9x range. But it was so slick downtrack I never could put together a real good pass...

23 psi is where my tires were most of the weekend...
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Old 09-30-2009, 08:05 PM
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i run my 67 gto at stock drags with f - 70 redlines,i tried a few different psi stock @ 32 psi it seemed ok, went to 45 in the rears and car had no traction broke loose going into 2nd gear,went to 40 psi and got a little more traction, last time out at e town i had rears at 30 psi and it seemed to get more traction, just my 2 cents
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Old 10-09-2009, 07:34 AM
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Where ever you have the pressure, somewhere they will work.......


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Old 10-09-2009, 04:42 PM
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Donny,

Striking hard with the lone small block in the 60 foot DATA. Nice job!!!!!

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