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Radial Tyres Vs Crossply Tyres

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Cross ply tyres are cheating? Where do you draw the line? Launch control, transbrakes, NOS, delay boxes, air shifts, tubs…… Sounds like making up the rules to suit your self.

At the end of the day you can race two ways. For all out ET. Or you race in a bracket with rules. For bracket racers, consistency wins meets. Not all out ET.

Because you race one way, and another person races another, does not make the other a cheat.

But if your not racing competition you might as well go as fast as possible. Setting goals for yourself on restrictions you set for yourself is pointless.

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Alot of these discussion are based around the Japanese RH9 rules/HPI list. So in effect it is a class with it's own specifications and rules. You could argue the same thing about street registration then, since ultimately a street registered car will be slower than an all out drag car, and this is all about that magical piece of toilet paper... errr... time slip. Right?

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Respect a time I say. Some people might say running a turbo is cheating!!! WTF!!!

Who cares how you do it. A fast time is a fast time isn't it?

As far as "street legal" goes - what a joke. A std GTSt with an aftermarket BOV or lowered suspension is not street legal but would struggle to pull a 14!!! The way i look at it, the only people that complain about certain mods that other cars have, have slower cars. If you like your car & it pulls a time that makes you happy than who cares what others say.

Drag racing is a rebel sport. Why should anyone make rules up to suit themselves. Do whatever you want. Do it however you want. Bracket racing evens it all out so slower cars can still win races. Heads up (best in class) racing is for diehards that want the title no matter what. If we want to run Nos, slicks, launch control, or whatever then let us go for it without slagging us for trying to go faster. We all love Skylines dont we? We all want to see

fast skylines dragging side by side.

As far as tyres go, if you want to go quicker, you cant go past a drag radial for traction.

Then eventually, a treaded street drag crossply like ET street is mandatory. After that there is nowhere to go but slicks - by then there is no way it is a regular street car anymore so why waste time with a DOT street tyre when you cant even drive it out to the track without getting locked up!

A lot of us are out there running the numbers against cars with twice our displacement -

are they cheating? No frigin way. They are just going fast for a lot less money 'cause DAMN

fast Skylines are bloody expensive.

Pot stirred.

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