Thanks for the info-I'm a little surprised. I assumed the full treads would be a little off from the start but not that bad and once they got down to 4/32's they would be about the same as one that is shaved. My logic was get a full tread to use for practice to wear down till they were good thin to wins. What I don't know is how the number of heat cycles affect the tire.
Bryan Leinart
CMC #24
BL - using full treads for Friday practice is a reasonable approach IMO as long as you go easy on them. They overheat much easier at full tread and if abused, they'll irreversibly have less grip and shorter life than if you just started at 5/32 to begin with. My earlier comments assumed you meant using full treads for qualifying and race sessions, which I think would slow you down more than you'd like and be much harder to "take care of" in the heat of battle. Expect 8-12 sessions of 8/10's driving to wear them down enough for racing. More for qualifying if you're trying to grid as high as possible.
OTOH, if you view qualifying as just more practice (nothing wrong with that)...I say screw it...just run whatever you've got and have fun. It's easy to take this stuff too seriously sometimes - all the little details do make a difference but you have to balance the level of effort and $$ you put in vs. the fun you get out of it.
2012 NASA-TX American Iron Champ
AI #29
I agree with Casey's last point. Unless you are seriously a top 5 finisher every time to put you on the podeum 80% of the time, I wouldn't worry much about tires, except how to get the lowest cost of use... (just stay away from 888's. They actually make your car worth less and suck money from the rest of the car since they are so hard to drive)...
Marshall Mosty
AI/SI Texas Regional Director
2011 NASA-TX American Iron Champ
AI #67 "Mosty Brothers' Racing" (RIP)
ST6 #21 Toyota Corolla (being revived)...
Morgan,
http://aicmctexas.com/main/showthrea...-17-Full-Tread
These are still available
AI # 12
We now have a links and resources section of the site, I will update the main post as people suggest links, Let me know if I missed some. I need help on some of these. Especially the Ford section
http://www.aicmctexas.com/main/forum...p?19-Resources
tirerack now carries shaved toyos.
For what its worth, I've already told JG I was ordering from him anyway. support the local guys.
Tires- JG (ex AI)
Brakes - Donovan (AI)
paint rubs & tire donuts- Randy english CMC
Dust Collector
BL - Found this on the NASA forums.
Red Tornado wrote:
and mount up some full tread toyo RA1 tires and practice away.
I wouldn't run full tread Toyos in the dry. Pushing them full tilt will blister them pretty quick. We have a set from Brainerd last year that boiled when we guessed wrong on the setup and the track dried in 3 laps.
j
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Jim-
Ukraine Brothers Racing
AI- CR Fox Mustang GT #76
AI- CR S197 Mustang GT #75- 2011 MW AI Champ
If the track dried in 3 laps, they should have never taken the slicks off. Full treads are for rains and only w/ LOTS of standing water. If there is not standing water - slicks/shaved all the way.
Last edited by HoustonNW; 05-17-2012 at 02:39 PM. Reason: typo
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-CMC #85
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