cib24
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I'm after rear rim/wheel sizes and drag radial or bias ply tyre recommendations. My car is a PP1 spec.
I think some 17s fit on the rear but 18s are a sure thing. I want to keep it cheap.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rota-Gri...701870?hash=item3fdce171ae:g:RrYAAOSwEFhdj-Ki
I don't know where to get the right drag radials or bias ply tyres in the UK yet, but I'll keep looking.
Can someone advise the correct size 18" rim/wheel, width and offset plus drag radia or bias ply tyre size for a stock N/A car?
I have just spent two Sundays at the strip with little luck in my MT82 2019 GT. I have no consistency with this car as I run into the following issues every single time:
1. Very bad wheel hop
2. 2nd gear the car falls flat on its face but regains power in 3rd gear
3. Leaving too soft and bogging down killing the 60 foot
4. Excessive wheel spin in 1st and 2nd killing the 60 foot and the 1/8th
My car is bone stock on the Michelin PS4S tyres, and I have had them at 22-23 PSi cold. I have tried 5-6 second burnouts before staging, a quick 1-2 second burnout, and no burnout. I have slipped and tried to ride the clutch at 2000, 2500, 3000, and 3500 RPM.
My best 60 foot is 2.35 seconds and the majority of them are 2.5-2.65 seconds. Terrible.
The weather the past two weekends was 45-50 degrees F and the headwind was 20-25 mph.
My best time is a 13.7 @ 109.3 mph. Most of the time the mph is 108-109 except when 2nd gear falls flat on its face for some reason. Then my mph is 104-105.
Car has 3.55 gearing with the 2019 MT82 long transmission ratios.
Not really sure how to make the car launch much better given it either hops, bogs or somehow kills its own power in 2nd.
I'm thinking of going straight to drag radials or bias ply tyres and using launch control at 4500-5500 RPM after a lengthy 10 second line lock burnout. Our tracks aren't prepped to the same level as most drag strips in the States but I frankly don't see another way to cut a materially better 60 foot. With more practice I may cut a 2.1 60 but I doubt there is more in it before my PS4S tyres go bald. I'm convinced the car needs a driver mod, but it also really needs better rear tyres that give and take some of the hop and wheel spin away.
I think some 17s fit on the rear but 18s are a sure thing. I want to keep it cheap.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rota-Gri...701870?hash=item3fdce171ae:g:RrYAAOSwEFhdj-Ki
I don't know where to get the right drag radials or bias ply tyres in the UK yet, but I'll keep looking.
Can someone advise the correct size 18" rim/wheel, width and offset plus drag radia or bias ply tyre size for a stock N/A car?
I have just spent two Sundays at the strip with little luck in my MT82 2019 GT. I have no consistency with this car as I run into the following issues every single time:
1. Very bad wheel hop
2. 2nd gear the car falls flat on its face but regains power in 3rd gear
3. Leaving too soft and bogging down killing the 60 foot
4. Excessive wheel spin in 1st and 2nd killing the 60 foot and the 1/8th
My car is bone stock on the Michelin PS4S tyres, and I have had them at 22-23 PSi cold. I have tried 5-6 second burnouts before staging, a quick 1-2 second burnout, and no burnout. I have slipped and tried to ride the clutch at 2000, 2500, 3000, and 3500 RPM.
My best 60 foot is 2.35 seconds and the majority of them are 2.5-2.65 seconds. Terrible.
The weather the past two weekends was 45-50 degrees F and the headwind was 20-25 mph.
My best time is a 13.7 @ 109.3 mph. Most of the time the mph is 108-109 except when 2nd gear falls flat on its face for some reason. Then my mph is 104-105.
Car has 3.55 gearing with the 2019 MT82 long transmission ratios.
Not really sure how to make the car launch much better given it either hops, bogs or somehow kills its own power in 2nd.
I'm thinking of going straight to drag radials or bias ply tyres and using launch control at 4500-5500 RPM after a lengthy 10 second line lock burnout. Our tracks aren't prepped to the same level as most drag strips in the States but I frankly don't see another way to cut a materially better 60 foot. With more practice I may cut a 2.1 60 but I doubt there is more in it before my PS4S tyres go bald. I'm convinced the car needs a driver mod, but it also really needs better rear tyres that give and take some of the hop and wheel spin away.
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