What is Pro Street today?

[2quick]

In the 80's and 90's a Pro Street car was easy to define based on a full back half street driven car with big 18.5x31 tires. It didn't really matter how fast it was or how much HP it made just as long as it was a big tire car. Fast forward to 2017 with drag radials the norm and tire tech advancements not requiring a full back half, No back seat street car to run in the low tens, So the question is what is a max effort minitubbed full back seat street car defined as?

 

[70bigblockdodge]

Fun comes to mind.

 

[Bladecutter]

In the 80's and 90's a Pro Street car was easy to define based on a full back half street driven car with big 18.5x31 tires. It didn't really matter how fast it was or how much HP it made just as long as it was a big tire car. Fast forward to 2017 with drag radials the norm and tire tech advancements not requiring a full back half, No back seat street car to run in the low tens, So the question is what is a max effort minitubbed full back seat street car defined as?

I have always thought of pro street platforms akin to pro stock......tubs & narrowed rear ends, end to end cages,,, rule of thumb. Basic ingredients.

 

[dieseldazzle]

Probably 25.1c if you want to compare.

 

[2quick]

Probably 25.1c if you want to compare.

Huh?

 

[fwi]

Pretty much any class car that can pass NHRA inspection as well as being street legal.

 

[STREETREBEL]

I'm pretty sure the Street Machine Nationals requires the
Big Gumbo back tires to be Pro Street.

 

[2quick]

Pro street?

 

[Brandy]

Pro street?

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IMO yes.

 

[Mike67]

Are you looking for an NHRA type of definition or just what an average car junkie would call it?

 

[Brandy]

My idea of Pro Street has always been vehicles that have bigger/wider rear tires, narrowed rear, roll cages ( hence the "pro" part) and less often, some portion of the mill sticking up out of the hood. Generally they have a noticeable rake to the stance, you can hear and feel the vibrations if they pull up next to your car, they are able to hook and book like nobody's business, and you wonder when you see one if that thing should be allowed to even BE on the street.

 

[Brandy]

The Yankee Express will be such a car. Be scared, be very scared...bwwahhhahhhhhhhhhh!. lol.

 

[Mike67]

I guess for now mine is pro garage...its tubbed, has a cage but an empty bay...

 

[Budnicks]

A street-beast

 

[Brandy]

Mine isn't pro anything. Pro dreams maybe...

 

[69clone]

Big meaty tires and a cage. Those are two of the main things I think of.

 

[69 GTX]

Rear tires twice as wide as front & 15 inch rims. A little bit of rake, and some sort of fresh air hood. Preferably 2-3 seconds faster than when it left the show room.

 

[Budnicks]

Pro-Street my definition was a drag racecar type theme
Big's & little's, big "perty" engine & stuff sticking out the hood
blowers, turbo's, tunnel-rams, 2x4bbls, Fuel Injection,
loud/large dia. headers/exhaust, lots of chrome do dads/bling etc.
A racecar 4 link/Ladder-bars or tubular type suspension,
coil overs, back-halved, narrower rear, deep rear rims,
skinny *** wheels front runners, LA rake usually lowered,
tubed, tinned, racing seat, harnesses, full cages etc.

Basically a racecar of sorts, most were no go show boats...LOL
with license plates, with street tread & Goddy pastels graphics & paints/colors...

I owned a few old racecars, I put on the street,
just no Goddy paint schemes...

 

[HT413]

Big meats, full tub, cage, skinnies. Wheelie bars and blower preferred. Anything less is just less.

 

[Budnicks]

Big meats, full tub, skinnies. Wheelie bars and blower preferred. Anything less is just less.

Yeah I forgot the "wheelie bars" & a chrome fire extinguisher