Boost Gobbler

today at lunch time i came to a red light and a pal from work pulls up in his 2001 cobra. so i know what he wants to do so we wait for the light to change i let her rip at some where around 4500 and i moved about 2 feet and then SKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERT (at this point i realized.. oh yeah my street tires are on today..)! all the way to 6k then i shift and SKEERT FOLLOWED BY A HUGE FISH TAIL! i strighted out but i ended up in the other lane! so now im thinking im just going to keep my radials on lol (i only drive it about 3-4 times a week to and from work, my track visits and an cruise around teh neighbor hood every so often)..

4 banger

throw the racin tires on and let her eat!!

mg man 75

I hear you. First time I hit boost hard and trans shifted with the limited slip rearend. Danced all the road. Got out of it quick. Caught me by surprize

TRBOPWR

I would definitely consider it. I run on drag radial almost all summer long simply because i'm at the track so often. A set of Nitto's or MT would even be ok in the rain, but my Hoosiers sure aren't worth anything lol

hellion_79

Yeah buddy, im pretty sure 4500 rpms is a bit too much for a launch on street tires that arnt even warm lol. I would have went easy on the launch and eased into it lol. But once boost hits you are sideways. How did the cobra do? I would have thought the cobra would have had the traction issues

Boost Gobbler

im not sure he says he had some spin but not to much. he thinks his car is about 5X faster then what it is and i cant wait to leave work at the same time with him one day. we go the same way home XD.

mustangsneverdie

street tires don't help any if there hot or not just spin em over a couple times to clean em off

sleeper_inc

^ he said the tires were cold ^

Explosive

It doesn't matter, hot street tires won't do you any good. They don't get sticky.