If you have an auto, I think the MT radials will be great for you. I've driven a friends 96 M6 C4 to mid 1.7's on nitto's, so that's about what I expect out of them on my car. I haven't raced with them yet, but I anticipate so-so results. I have switched to the nittos on my vette. The car runs low 12's and dead hooks getting low 1.6 short times with the MT radials. I tend to think that the MT radials do well on automatic cars, but I shy away from them on stick shift applications.Ī good friend of mine has an 87 Buick Regal with the turbo V6 in it. That information is no longer on their website, but it was up there for the first few months the tires were available. Something about the tire not doing well with the instant hit/load associated with a clutch drop. When the ET street radial first came out, MT's website had a blurb about them that said they weren't intended for stick shift cars. The drag radials would not recover once they started to spin. The best part about them is that if the spin, I can just stay in it and they will recover and hook. I can launch on the juice with little to no wheel spin. The bias ply ET streets were worlds better. I've been mid-low 1.7's on nitto's, so I wasn't happy with the MT tires at all. Because of the bogging down situation, I never was able to get much more than low 1.8's out the ET street radials. Basically, I had to beat on the car harder to achieve the same short times. On the ET street radials, 1.8's were pretty much automatic, but I had to drop the clutch much harder from a much higher RPM. On regular street tires I was able to drive the car to mid 1.8's using as much clutch pedal finesse and throttle control as I could muster. I had the negatives of both types of tires and the positives of neither. They didn't wear like a street tire, and didn't hook like a slick. As soon as I lifted off the floor, the bottle would shut off, the tires would hook, and the car would bog down. On the bottle, they would spin all the way through first gear. On motor, they would dead hook and the engine would bog down. I had the M/T drag radials on my 91 M6 and sold them because I didn't like them.
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