[TR] Inflating Tires w/ Nitrogen?

[Ted Schumacher]

Jack and list.  We always used nitrogen in our race tires. We would 
normally have two 2500 psi nitrogen bottles.  One fed only the tires. 
The other ran air guns.  Tire pressure and diameter changes with 
nitrogen were minimal.  Not as much pressure growth and lower heat since 
water was not present.  Overkill for street but a must for a race 
effort. Granted, we had a contract with Goodyear and had our own tire 
engineer, but we still did everything we could to help the tires.  No 
growth from air made it more predictable. Ted

Jack W. Drews wrote:

>If one desired to do this, where would you get the nitrogen and how 
>would you set up to use it?
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>At 09:31 AM 7/25/2007, you wrote:
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>>At 10:07 AM -0400 7/25/07, Harlyred1 at aol.com wrote:
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>>>Nitrogen doesn't react to heat and cold, ergo, the psi remains constant.
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>>Well, sort of. The biggest drawback to using atmospheric air is the
>>water vapor content. Water vapor expands and contracts with
>>temperature change more than other gasses. Dry nitrogen is more
>>stable.
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>uncle jack 
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