Ok, everyone is getting confusing with the street radial/drag radial/et street stuff. Let's straighten that out first.
Street radial refers to regular old plain jane street tires.
Drag radials are radial drag tires that are street legal ie: mt et street radials, bfg drag radials
Regular MT ET streets are basically bias ply slicks with some lines in the to make them street legal.
ET streets or drag radials do NOT and will not hook better than slicks in any circumstance other than maybe sand or rain. It is definitely possible to make them hook very well though at the track, as there has now been a few 6 second passes made on et street radials. But, they really do not like to hook on the street.
Between myself and friends we have raced with pretty much every tire there is on the street. ET streets and radials never seemed to work so great. Everyone liked the BFGs better. Different story at the track. Tire pressure is very important. Drag radials like about 15psi, and that's where I ran mine all the time.
I had 275/50 bfgs. they don't like being shocked, but at around 4k if you slip the clutch hard and fast they would hook pretty well.
After those wore out I threw on some used 28x9" ET Drag slick. Best decision I ever made. They were on the car for probably 2k miles with quite a few burnouts and finally wore out. Ran 12psi all the time. The car really didn't like the 28s with my junk 3.55s but it still hooked incredibly well. Road conditions make a big difference as well. Highways tend to be a little slippery, I could never get a dead hook there.
On certain streets I have launched the car with cold tires on a cold road through the boards on the 6250 rev limiter and it would pretty much dead hook. I have video if you want.
Hit a wet spot from someone lawn watering on slicks and ET street and you kiss your a$% goodbye. lol
Not true. It's not bad unless it's a heavy downpour.
Trying to avoid drag slicks as I drive the car quite a bit. Maybe I just need sticky street tires???
How many miles a year? I think you could probably get a season out of them, and they're pretty easy to find used for cheap in classifieds on forums.