i love my cooper cobras!!! lol.....but if somebody wants to give me some Faulkens to try out in practice i'd be glad to try it! but what do i care anyways cause i have one more night with the car and then i am done with it!

correct about the hoosier spec,but not allowed yet at our track,biggest concern is safety. the 8" spec tires will drop a second from the lap times,but then we start having brake issues,spindle problems and broken axles. the cost to shod my street stock(81 camero) in hoosiers would be $1380 min for the year. to run the cobras is 480 for the year plus saving the cost on brakes axles etc. i have no doubt the tires you tire you list are faster i am just wondering if the are the right choice for entry level classes with older equipment.

  Hill3 you are absolutely correct and i think you are being conservative on how much it would cost you to run the hoosiers.  If spindles become an issue you can switch to the astro van spindle and you will have no more problems.

Hill3 I have the Hoosiers, stock g metric spindles, 10" Metric brakes, (I haven't upgraded them to Astro yet, I didn't want to have 4.75 on 5 and 5 on 5 rims on the same car) and a 10 bolt metric. I haven't broke anything yet, except the welds in the spiders in the rear gear, which we replaced with a mini-spool. I don't even lose the brakes, but I can't go as deep in the corner as some of the other guys, my braking point is about 10' before everyone else, because they all run the 12" rotor.

The car came with 7.0 Hoosiers (Sunset tires) and I noticed a bit of a difference going from them to 8.0 Hoosiers (Barrie tires).

Apparently the Hoosiers are good for at least a 1/2 second over the old racing recaps, so it may be worth a full second to you guys running 60 series street radials.

The Thunder Cars here are probably similar to your Street Stocks, Camaros, Montes, Malibus, all the usual G-Metric offenders... 🙂

How many of you 4 cyl guys shave your tires?

I insist that my tires and my women are shaved.

Too bad you cant do my sasquatch , but we are good for shaved tires until the spring