I raced the ------ out of this car this summer with Cody's tires, and they kicked ass! Not only do you get the period look, but in my opinion I got just as good of performance than running some lame mickey's. I ran the tire pressure at 28 and heated them up in the box, and they seemed to hook. I know of a few other cars that run these tires. Not only do they look bad ass but they perform!
I got mine last week and just happened to call cody this morning to double check on the pressure. I bought 30 x 10's that are blackwalls for my 33 fenderless pu. He said around thirty no less than 27 to 28. Ideally if you can run a patch off measure the width of the burnout and compare that to the tread width and adjust air accordingly. My wheels are just a tad to narrow for these trires and they kind of balloon a little so I wanted to drop the air pressure a little less than the 32psi they were at and that was his response. They look good and he met my there on a saturday, what more can I ask for. Thanks again.
I have run my Hurst pie crust slicks on the street and the track for three years and other than where I had a little fender rub they look and perform just great.
Well, I emailed Hurst and Towel City on the exact tires I wanted, and they were within a few $$$ of each other...so cost is a wash. Service (problems with "bad" tires) and quality of the recaps is the next consideration...
Read a lot of folks here saying that Cody and Steve back up their tires, which is good. But since they are in the NW in WA state and I'm about as far away as I can get in The SE in GA, shipping is a concern. So my question is who pays the shipping if you have to return a bad tire? Dave
PROBABLY the same person who payed to have the tires Shipped in the first place...I would imagine. But that's a good point. Why should the person who got a bad tire(s) have to lay out MORE $$$ to have the problem corrected?...
I have some 10 x 30's and they are great. they are real heavy - 50lbs each. They also have an inverse crown on a 9.75" rim. that means the outer eadges are high. Cody said that will wear in. I think having the tire ride on the outer edges of the tires makes it drive fairly crazy on uneven roads - it's fine on good roads. His Dad said you really need an 8.5" rim for the 10" slicks because the radial casing is made for a narrower rim. I think that information should be on the website. I sort of had to learn all that by getting them in my hands because I didn't know to ask those questions. Not bitching. I love the way they look and drive. just fyi. Oh, they took 6 oz of weight each to balance and that took clocking the tires on the rims a couple times to reduce the overall amount of weight. Per Cody's instructions, I ran them a while before I balanced them to let the tire break the casing in. They ran OK with out balancing but at speeds over 60 they went to vibrating and when you accelerated hard from 60 up it caused some bad vibrations. After the balancing, I am really happy.
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