[RallySnake]

Poison,

Good question and one that I have been struggling with for a couple of months. Usually, I go to Tirerack.com to figure out the best tires for an application. But the tires they carry in our sizes are useless. The best place to look is the Summit catalog.

The problem is that Cobra's can be configured to do a lot of things. You are interested in drag racing. I like to run long distance rallies and Solo2 events. The Summit catalog carries Nitto, Mickey Thompson and Hoosier drag radials that will work for you. One person (on this forum) put the Mickey Thompson ET Street radials on all four wheels and had good results. They look great, too.

I have heard that drag radials do not go around curves very well. The flexible sidewalls make the rear end feel loose and that will reduce your confidence as speeds climb on back roads or the track. That may not matter to you. But, it means the world to me.

For rallies, I have pretty much decided on the Mickey Thompson Sportsman S/T Radial Tires. They are affordable, so I can keep burning up a set every year. People on this forum have given them positive reviews. Unfortunately, buying tires is like buying shoes because you just cannot know how they will feel until you try them on.

There are also the purpose made (for Cobra's) Avon tires which I would love to have and also the Goodyear "billboard" tires which are beautiful. However, the $400 each price for the Avon’s and the grabby race car handling of the Goodyear’s rules them out for me.

I have run over 12 sets of tires on my 24 year old Arntz Cobra and have learned the limitations of many types of tires and this is the best advice I can give you. I hope to hear from many more people here.

Rally