SaltyCuda@aol.com wrote:
>
> Hello group,
>
> I'm the owner/driver (Phil Grisotti shares the driving chores) of #82 Salty
> 'cuda. This car has set a few records at El Mirage and Bonneville over the
> last decade, getting me in both "2" clubs, and although Phil set a record at
> B-ville at 216, he is only in the dirty two club; so far. We are in the
> Lakers Car Club.
> Jim,
Welcome to our world. Many of us spend way too much time on the network,
but it is just so interesting that we can't leave it alone.
Glad you decided to join us, I feel somewhat akin to the "Salty Cuda". I
lived in La Habra for sixteen years, and I worked for Phil's dad for a
couple of years and was his close friend the rest of his life.
Good information that you gave us on tires, Thanks!! Hope to see you at
the Lakes, Muroc, and Bonneville.
Tom, Redding CA 4:30PM PST
> I've enjoyed reading the LSR e-mail back and forth for several weeks now, and
> finally decided to jump in.
>
> On shaved tires, Nate at Nate Jones Firestone in Long Beach has perfected the
> art of tire shaving. He not only does it to reduce the tire weight at the
> circumference, but to shape the tire. He has years of experience in this and
> has recently been shaping some of the streamliner/lakester teams' tires.
> They are attempting to control the footprint size/shape at speed with all the
> down-force, and tire growth factored in.
>
> Nate can share a lot on care and feeding of LSR tires as well. He recommends
> filling them with Nitrogen gas instead of air, and between meets, taking the
> weight off them, bagging them in plastic, filling the bag with Nitrogen,
> storing them flat on a cool surface like on the floor of the root cellar,
> with only enough air pressure to hold the shape, like 20 psi. The intent is
> to keep the ozone and other bad things in the air we breath, from penetrating
> the rubber, and to keep the natural oils in the rubber from out-gassing.
>
> Lastly, Happy New Year/Century, and the start of a year long New Millennium
> celebration.
>
> Jim Snyder in La Habra, CA
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