How about a 10 inch wide drag slick for Maxton? The Goodguys VDRA Top Fuel
cars run 10 inch wide M&H Racemasters, and they're going 230 in the quarter.
Darrell Ferguson
BLACK RADON ENGINEERING
# 939 BBFALT
http://my.cybersoup.com/blackradon
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Turk [SMTP:kturk@ala.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 8:56 PM
> To: John Beckett; Dick Jurkowski; Thomas E. Bryant
> Cc: land-speed@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Tires
>
> Yep spent the Money and about destroyed them at the first Meet with the C
> motor ( 425 hp ) Can't even imagine the D motor and those tires...
>
> I know if I ask there are folks that can find us the Maxton Only tire....
> I
> just don't know where yet... Maybe my guys in Charlotte.... who knows...
>
> Keith
>
> ----------
> > From: John Beckett <johnbeck@blueridge.cc.nc.us>
> > To: Dick Jurkowski <lsr_man@yahoo.com>; Thomas E. Bryant
> <saltracer@awwwsome.com>
> > Cc: land-speed@autox.team.net
> > Subject: Re: Tires
> > Date: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 4:29 PM
> >
> > Dick
> >
> > The only problem with Frontrunners and Maxton is that some guys are
> putting
> > a lot of HP combined with a lot of traction on a tire that was never
> > designed to be on a drive wheel. They work fine if your easy on them.
> The
> > absolutly best tire for 'Maxton' is a NASCAR race tire, 27.5 to 28"
> dia.,
> > but 10 to 12" wide. If your using the Dodge body just add some tubs to
> > allow for the wider tires.
> >
> > JB
> >
> > At 03:09 PM 7/21/99 -0400, Dick Jurkowski wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >--- "Thomas E. Bryant" <saltracer@awwwsome.com>
> > >
> > >Tom,
> > >
> > >If I could only afford one set of tires that had
> > >to see me through both Maxton and the salt, what
> > >do you recommend in a 15". I'm looking at XF/SR
> > >and C/Coupe or Altered. When I look at ZR rated
> > >street tires, the only thing I come up with is
> > >really wide by the time I get anything near a
> > >reasonable diameter. I had all but settled on
> > >Front Runners when some of the Maxton guys
> > >pointed out that they had bad experiences with
> > >them on the rough Maxton mile.
> > >
> > >Thanks
> > >Dick J
> > >
> >
> >
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