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I was about to say that the ET Street R is a radial rather than a bias ply, but I just went to their website and see that the ET Street R is offered in both now, and both DOT... interesting.

I went through a set of 17" ET Street R (radial) on my SC'd Mustang. When they were NEW, they gripped like crazy. It would dead hook second gear at 815whp when they were fresh on nice concrete. Never tried them at low pressure with a burnout to see if first could hook. I'd imagine the Bias version will probably do a little better.

If I had to guess, that tire might be able to hold anything a FBO Z throws at it. So long as your suspension is setup decent enough, your tire pressure is dialed in, and your burnouts are good... Its probably plenty.

I wouldn't call my drag racing serious! I merely showed up with a twin turbo Z to a drag strip 2-3 times, and its been 5 years since I last did that. A lot of people tried taking a Z like mine to the strip over the years, and the crappy results seems to keep most from trying it again. The only extra step I took was to try the small brakes and big tires thing, and I had a little extra success with that (got the 1/4 record at the time, 5 years ago). I started to wake up about what had to change after that, but never tried it again. A couple years later when we were experimenting with Justins car was when we realized that the 370z really can hook decent if we stopped ignoring what the rest of the world always knew about slamming cars and trying to drag race them.

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