Tire preference with a lencodrive

is there any tire preference with a lencodrive and beadlocks??? right now we have hoosiers 34.5......what do you guys like hoosiers,mt,gy???
the car as a 125" altered blown bbf 3spd lencodrive
thanks jon

 

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we run MT's on our hemi TD.

 

jon,
we also run 34.5 mickeys on our 150" altered. they seem to work very well with the lencodrive.
Eric

 

M/t 34.5 on a 125" blown hemi fiat, lencodrive ,180 first!!! Have run a test with m/t and hoosier at columbus nhra points meet, ran 6.30 with hoosier 6.29 with m/t..mickey's on beadloc's...m/t are softer and hook on a track not of national event type great........

 

Looks like M/T's may be the way to go....3186 or 3187??
thanks jon

 

Call M/T and order the tires. One is for clutch cars with a stiffer sidewall. You will do nothing but smoke the tires with a lencodrive. I did it last year before we realized the problem. Changed to the convertor tires and ran 4.06 in the eighth.

 

Don't overlook tire pressure

I ran 34.5 Hoosiers on beadlocks with my dragster.

Today's combination Lencodrive, Hemi and 34.5 Hoosiers w/6.0 lbs.

No problems.

The problem was finding the right tire pressure. We shook our car every run until we got the tire pressure up to 6.0 lbs.

4.5 lbs worked good with our blown smallblock, powerglide and 15x15 non beadlocks with 33.5 Hoosiers.

Good luck.

Brad Hiatt