Amatuer Drag Racing Help

[nstyle73]

I'm planning on doing some friendly drag racing at the local fair with my KXT500. I know a 500 isn't a drag racing animal, and my 300 is actually probably quicker, but it has new rings and isn't broken in yet. It is lowered with a +6 swinger though. I need some help on tires. I have a few choices:

18" Fast Trekkers (Old style, nearly new tread)
20" Stingers (Holeshot knock-off, nearly new tread)
22" Realtors

or just for giggles:
20" ITP Mudlites
22" AT489's
18" Ohtsu 903's

I have the sprockets and hubs to make all but the Realtors bolt on, those would take some rim swapping. I'm not really wanting to spend any money, but at least make a good show of it. This is kind of a grudge race against my cousin who won last year with his 450R. I will be in the unlimited class though, so I know there is a Raptor and a Thundercat that will be there before I would even get to the 450R. I've only drag raced a CBR954 before, so dragging on dirt will be new.

[briano]

I'd try the mud lights, I had a set on my ds650 and they hooked up awesome in all kinds of different dirt. I had hole shots on it and also a set of realtors, the realtors were not to bad but the mud lights were my favorite tire on the back of that quad.

[Chazz of Blades]

300 foot runs? I'd think between three tire sizes in short runs like that that the 20" would be best, but the king of dirt dragging around here is Raffa.

[cattle-dog]

Depends on the track here we have mostly all hard pack and run ice screws or snomo picks in our tires, here is a pick of our Ds650 Baja X 480lb quad runs 4,50S all day long in 300 ft,
has ice screws in the tires, plus 8 swinger no wheelie bar and at times will stand straight up,

[nstyle73]

That beast is a bit more professional than the 4-H fair gets. It is a pretty well hard pack horse track. I am leaning towards the 20" Stingers, holeshot knockoffs. The mudlites and realtors seem heavy and with it being hard pack, I was thinking the biting edges would help hook better. I've seen some 4-snows used, but how well do the tires on that 650 hook without the screws?

[atc300r]

Pro-Wedge 2 ,4-snows are great.I have run drags for 11 years.Most everyone up here runs the4-snows or pro-wedge 2 stock through super mod. 22x11x8 seems to work best. 18 you get alot of wheel spin.

[cattle-dog]

i have 4 snows also and we just spin in the hard pack, here in western ny if you do not have screws or picks you will not hook. but back to your question a horse track should get a little loose as the day of racing go`s on, if it were me i would take the different tires you have and try each during test and tune.