Thought on tires/handling on my Chevelle.

[nitrorocket]

On the way to work this morning I ran into a newer Subaru WRX STI with some exhaust and possibly some other hidden mods. He was trying to mess around so I thought I would play too.
He tried to pull me from a light and I stayed on his rear and then we entered a 270 degree right hand turn for a freeway onramp. I was in 3rd which was to low high a gear for the turn so half way through I had to downshift to 2nd.
Anyways, besides me being very nervous about the ass end sliding out, I could not pull on him in the turn and actually lost a car length,I had my radio blasting so I could not hear my car. I may have been able to push it harder as I assuming he was, but my last experience with this turn I had my rear almost slide out from cold rear tires in the early morning. I was dissapointed I could not easily hold his bumper or pull on him and I actually lost about 1 car length to the WRX.

My car felt like the ass end wanted to come around, I was trying to fight that a little, I am hoping it was just a tire issue and not suspension tuning. I wish I had my radio down so I could have heard the tires.

What do you think of this, and what is the the opinion on rear tires, I run a Goodyear Eagle GSCS road race slick on the rear (315/35/17) I nees to do something, just not sure what.