No biggy, but as you can see from some of my posts I might be a red neck about Pro Street.Is there any need for the pro street lover anymore,am I out dated to old give me pro street or give me death. Any replies HOLLA BACK YO.
TC we have PT wheres the Pro Street
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10.5 class tires are bigger that you think, there is more rubber on the ground than my 16.5x31x15
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I bought my car because I recognized I was stupid enough to spend a lot of money playing with cars, and with the way I work I knew I would never be able to complete a car. I told everybody, "this is a gawdy sumbitch I'm gonna buy and we may have to do something about it". First time I saw the gawdy bastard I was in love. First time I drove it I about peed my pants. I told everybody "We ain't changin ****". I don't care if somebody doesn't like my paint, or my stickers, or my 18 1/2" slicks, my 3 1/2" exhaust and electric cutouts or anything else. I like wolf and that's all there is to it, I don't need to call him Prostreet or fit any other label, he's wolf and he's mine and I don't need anybody to understand
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I just had an idea for a PT vs PS event... get a bunch of each to meet up at a road coarse, spend the day road racing (probably solo and comparing lap times?). The next day, caravan to nearest drag strip and spend the rest of the day drag racing. All cars must be street legal and complete all three events. Tire changes, suspension adjustments, and tuning are allowed, but otherwise run-what-you-brung.
Or has then been done before?
Or has then been done before?
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My local friends with pro-street cars are running seriously large rubber, 33x17 or 33x18, I can't remember. I know it dead hooks though! I've taken some killer wheelstand videos.
Dude, I cant go faster than 30mph in a clover leaf wo sliding the front tires, that has never happened and never will. PS cars ps cars were made to do 2 things: Look bad *** and go fast in a straight line.
Not true, unless you got cheated on your tread width.
We have our car set up to PSCA rules, and most other organizations are the same with the exception of the TT5 classes (true 10.5) which runs a true 10.5" tire, not a 10.5W like we run. According to the rules, you can run a M/T 29", 31" or 33"X10.5W or equivlent, the M/T ET drag 29" and 33" are 11.2" tread and the 31" is 10.8" .Now I don't know what manufacturer you use, but the M/T ET street 16.5 31X15 has a tread width of 12.4 or about 1 1/4" wider minimum, that may not seem like much to some but it's a big difference when trying to hook 2000 or so horsepower.
It has been done, but is a great idea.
I know a guy that specializes primarily in road race Mustangs (and Corvettes oddly enough) that has done this, and I'm pretty sure it's been done before that. I believe he challenged another shop & their customers in fact.
His cars are real road race/ street cars for the most part, not posers, so I would imagine they would hand most any group of either type car their butts overall, they build some fast corner carvers. I was one of his only drag race oriented customers (yes I have a Mustang too
) and he always gave me a hard time about "paying more and more to spend less time in the seat", he has a point but the acceleration is well worth the longevity of the ride :thumbsup:
your link no work
:noway:your link no work
yes I noticed
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Now this is what I'm after :thumbsup: keep it going prostreet so we don't get left in the past :noway:.We may even get our own forum to post in. :hurray: All the pictures are great and I appreciate all the kind words spoken in pro streets defense :beers: .I would post pics of my car but am still having trouble because of past posts.
The way it was set up it should have run high 11s. However, the only time I had the car on the track was at Capitol Raceway with a bunch of other cars on a Saturday morning for the making of a commercial for ELD (a local speed shop / builder -- the guy who owns it is named Brian and he has been on Pinks both as a participant and more recently one of the technical advisors). Anyway, we were only allowed to heat up the tires and do a launch for the camera. We had to shut it down about 1/3 track since there were no emergency crews on site. BTW, the motor saw the other side of 7 grand -- I figured I was only a tow truck ride away from home and wasn't going to baby it in front of the rest of the guys.
Cool Doug, sweet looking car and I'm glad to hear you have had it out to the track, you should get it out again and see what you can get for a best :thumbsup:
Since we are talking wide tires, heres a shot of the old race car, a Nova kind of like yours, running in heavy street in '02......
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Since we are talking wide tires, heres a shot of the old race car, a Nova kind of like yours, running in heavy street in '02......
Your Nova looks like it was ready to "go strong down the pavement" (I see the front wheels off the gound!! :thumbsup: I would love to get my Nova out to the track and run it hard, but I sold it last year and bought another 69 Camaro (see my sigCool Doug, sweet looking car and I'm glad to hear you have had it out to the track, you should get it out again and see what you can get for a best :thumbsup:
Since we are talking wide tires, heres a shot of the old race car, a Nova kind of like yours, running in heavy street in '02......
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