DRR Top Comp
| We got a buy one get one on firestones once. I swear they lost air between fire up and backing up from burnout. Almost carried air tank to starting line and re-air the tire before stagging. Crowd enjoyed the 1/8 mile burnouts I had Rickie do at a match race to get rid of them.
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| | | Posts: 4528 | Location: Greensboro NC | Registered: May 24, 2011 | 
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DRR Elite
| Except at holding air, same with their spin off, Phoenix, good tire but doesn’t hold air. |
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DRR S/Pro
| quote: Originally posted by DragRaceResults:
Firestones were pretty good
Yes they were....Bert Thomas was the Firestone man in charge at the big events... F-30's or F-9's.....14x32's My Firestones were never leakers like M/T's..... They did go away though after not a ton of runs....and RT's went with them.... |
| | | Posts: 2735 | Location: Where ever I am, I'm here and it's me | Registered: March 15, 2007 |
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DRR Sportsman
| Every tire I have run on my Nova (Goodyear, M/T or Hoosier) the sidewalls always wear out with plenty of tread left on them. When the 60 starts to move and it throws up strange RT's, its time to change them.
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| | | Posts: 791 | Location: Hanover, MD | Registered: June 20, 2016 |
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DRR Elite
| Agree, sidewalls are gone long before the wear holes. |
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DRR S/Pro
| quote: Originally posted by Tom Reyer:
Every tire I have run on my Nova (Goodyear, M/T or Hoosier) the sidewalls always wear out with plenty of tread left on them.
When the 60 starts to move and it throws up strange RT's, its time to change them.
Some combo's stress the sidewalls much more than others. Gearing, weight and converter all play a role here. I have heard some swap sides with their tires every XX runs, I never have and I am not a fan of this either. I put just over 300 runs on a set of MT 3197's with no issues on my RED. New tires changed nothing with regards to RT's or 60's. And ya there wasn't much wear hole left either!  |
| | | Posts: 2163 | Location: Tewksbury, MA,USA | Registered: November 03, 2000 |
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DRR Elite
| Clearly Al has this tire figured out better than Everyone my son has spoken to who puts between 60-150 passes on these tire with ETs that vary from 4.30s to .70s. Some say it’s like a switch was flipped and the 60s immediately go away. Others have said their tires won’t stand up after demounting. All I know is we moved .02 in 4 passes on Sunday with about 110 passes on them, which is at least 65 fewer passes then we put on the Hoosier C1550 |
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