I got mine from Phil's Tire late last year, but they were already a year old. Maybe they only make them every other year.
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I got mine from Phil's Tire late last year, but they were already a year old. Maybe they only make them every other year.
According to Falken they are molded to 8/32nds, the same as the RA1s. Back when we ran them, all the fast guys shaved them. I'm not sure its realistic to police tread depth, but certainly open to suggestions.
Mine are mounted and full tread depth. Will be running them Friday all day on my car to see if I can do something to hurt them. I'm on the fence about running TT, it gets more heat cycles quicker but with Josh doing the test last weekend and me running them in practice Friday idk what additional data we want to gather from TT sessions on them. If somebody thinks we can get data from me in TT I'm happy to add it at the track.
Well, we wouldn't be policing tread depth. The whole point of this exercise is to find a tire that we can run down to no tread while still being competitive. We would be trying to police shaving. A shaved tire has a very distinctive surface. That surface goes away with track use but it takes a bit to completely go away. That use would have to happen at an event away from a race event. I think a burnout could get rid of about 80% of the shaving marks but wouldn't get them all.
So, it's not that a shaving rule couldn't be cheated. It would just be a big hassle. I think anyone going to that much trouble to cheat is already cheating in ways that aren't going to be found by the level of tech that we are currently doing...
Richard P.
I learned a bunch in SM at Cresson, 15hc toyos were also as fast as stickers this past event for me.
I am going to Hallett in 2 weeks with SCCA, the Hoosiers are only supposed to be good for 4-5hc.
The SM guys were saying toyos are fast up to 15-20 at msrc and Hallett but you have to sticker up at COTA