Last I heard, the tire companies had actually said they had NO PLANS
to stop making cantilevers. Anyone have RELIABLE info to the contrary?
With all the road racing and autocross people out there using them,
I don't see why they would be any less profitable to make and sell than
any other tire. After all, NONE of the tires we use are exactly high
volume products. As to the proposal itself, I think it's lunacy to try
to measure tire tread width. Whos gauge do you use? Where do you measure
from on the side wall? (after a hard run in my 2100lb Pinto the "edge"
of the tread is about an inch wide on each side of the tire and rolls up
the sidewall). Much easier to measure a metal wheel. We've all done it.
Keep the present wheel widths for cantilever tires and have a weight/width
formula for the rest. For example, using straight wall NON-DOT tires
as follows;
car weight wheel width
1600lbs or less 7"
1601-1850 8"
1851 and up 10"
The whole proposal, to me, seems to be a very covoluted answer to a problem
that isn't there. My .02...
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-autox@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-autox@autox.team.net]On
Behalf Of Paul Foster
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 7:09 AM
To: Dick Rasmussen
Cc: autox@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Prepared Cantillever Tire Rule Vent
Dick Rasmussen writes:
> Paul,
>
> FYI,
>
> I think you still missed the point. I think the DOT reference is for info
> only. The proposal is not suggesting that DOT tires replace slicks for
> Prepared. My understanding is that the current cantilever slicks which
work
> on SCCA mandated narrow rims (in many Prepared and Production classes) are
> likely to be phased out of production. This means that slicks which have
> similar width but need wider tires will be the only comparable tires
> available.
>
> Therefore, if I read it correctly, the proposal was generated to get
people
> thinking about the transition from cantilever slicks on narrow rims to
> similar width non cantilever slicks on the wider rims needed to support
the
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