Originally Posted by fjm1
I've heard that most street tires do not respond well to smokey burnouts. They get greasy.
I've had the best luck hooking up by going around the water box and doing a quicky burout to scrub off any debris on the tires.
If your running street tires then you are doing the correct thing by going around the water box and not heating up your tires.
You only want to heat up slicks because they are made of a different rubber compound then street tires.
Don't lower your tire pressure to much if your running street tires. The purpose of running lower tire pressure is so you have more of a contact patch (more tread on the ground) and if you have slicks, it allows the sidewall to wrinkle and flex to help with traction. Street tires won't respond the same way. You can let some air out to get more tread on the ground, but going to low will just cause the tires to cup. When I ran ran street tires I used to lower my pressure about 10psi and that was all. On my D/R's I have found that running about 11psi (cold) gets me the best 60' times...Try different pressures to see what works best for you.