16" salad shooters- which size and brand slicks to use for max traction? tried bfg drag radials and wasnt too impressed with them. any suggestions

 

Mickey Thompson ET Streets, part number 3792, 26" x 10 1/2" x 16".

http://www.mickeythompsontires.com/strip_et_street.html

You can buy through SUmmit, Jegs, or usually your local speed shop. I use tubes and rim screws in mine. I am unsure if you will need to do the same, however tubes would definitely be recommended although I do know guys not running them.

I suggest the ET Streets because they hook nearly as well as a full blown slick, much better than drag radials (Et Streets wrinkle), but they are technically DOT approved so if you do any bracket racing you can run in street class instead of one of the faster eliminators.

If you call Mickey Thompson with questions have them tell their race director that I made the recommendation. They have pretty good tech support.

 

I'd say the 26x11.50-16LT ET Street. I had good luck with these on salad shooters: 1.52sec 60" with non-drag suspension and an M6 with 3.42's.

Rich Krause

 

I have the current Hot Rod magazine, and they did a comparison between Mickey Thompson E/T Drags (non DOT approved) and the new E/T Street Radials (not regular E/T Streets) and on the same car they cut better 60' and 1/4 mile E/T's!!!!

They said there was not even a point in comparing the Mickey's to BFG DR's................they've been proven to be better already.

 

The reason I recommened the narrower width is the 11.5 width recommends a 10" rim. There are plenty of people running the 11.5 on a stock rim but I tend to play by the book, +/- 1".

Also, if you go to a 10" rim, you need a 7 1/2 offset to avoid the sidewall from sticking out beyond the stock wheelwell. I had my fenders flared which allowed a 6 1/2 offset. I did that because I wanted to eventually go to a 12 1/2 width and I wanted to minimize any effort on my part with fitment.

 

Thanks for the info

 

I just re-read that, and I don't think I specified which tires got the better time? It was the new E/T Street Radials that got the best time! AND, they're street legal! (and they come in 255/50/16 which will fit perfectly on those 16" salad shooters).