Ed,
Were your ears burning last Saturday afternoon?? Jim and I were standing in
his tire building talking about racing wheels and how much fun they are to
have built and your name came up. Weren't you down here in the "furnace" a
few weeks ago on the drag strip? I was up in the control tower at the circle
track and probably could have watched you make a pass.
I realize my deal with the liner is totally different but I'm runnning the
wide, short 18" Mickeys on the rear and the 16,s on the front and the car
handles like a dream. Some people told me not to run the wide tires because
they would be squirrely but not so far at 290.
Howard
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Van Scoy" <edvs@uswest.net>
To: "John Beckett" <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>
Cc: "rgribble" <rgribble@carolina.rr.com>; <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 7:49 PM
Subject: Re: Goodyear racing tires & tire slippage
> I have been using Goodyears for 8 years with good results. I initially ran
8 inch
>
> Talledegas which were way too wide for LSR use on a Vette. After a bit of
> experimenting, I have settled into 4.5 in Frontrunners with 15x7 on the
rear. One
>
> important aspect often over-looked is the section width of the tire. The
> Talladegas
> had 8" wide contact patch but the tire was 12" wide. The 7" Goodyears I am
> running
> on the rear now do have 4 deep grooves in them (otherwise they're slicks)
& of
> course the Frontrunners have slight tread. I can't remember the section
width on
> the
> rears, but they pretty much stand straight up, unlike the Talledegas that
> appeared
> much wider than they really were. Bottom line, they have worked well for
me but
> I'm only running 215 mph (hoping to do MUCH better this year.
> Ed
> P.S Howard, my "tire guy" is Jim Doughty at Shelby, undoubtably you know
Jim &
> Patti (and Donnie)?
>
> John Beckett wrote:
>
> > Grib
> >
> > You bring up some good questions here. I have run the NASCAR style
Goodyear
> > Bonneville tires with semi successful (220 MPH in a coupe) results. Have
> > often wondered if the lack of any tread had any effect on the traction
> > situation. Bonneville unlike El-Mirage is moist and as such perhaps
creates
> > a slight hydro-planeing effect that slick tires don't react well to.
Have
> > noticed that the Goodyear Front Runner style tires that seem to work so
well
> > at Bonneville have some tread.
> >
> > Has anyone had experience with treaded vs slick tires on the Salt?
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