woaface
04-04-2004, 09:04 AM
Ok, I got a new tire yesterday as explained in a thread from yesterday.
This tire happenes to be on the only wheel that turns in a burnout, right rear.
I noticed some slipping with the tire being fresh, whereas my last tire had done 2 burnouts in the last 3 months and the rubber had messhed outwards in it's natural V shape...so the tread was basically a wider angle. So it gripped a lot more, period. (ex. the car has barked a whole lot more than normal with the new tire on)
I was also offered a process called "Siping" (sic?) when I got the new shoes where they put cuts in all of the individual tread blocks that forces the tread blocks to spread out (making two tread blocks) when they come down on the ground, and as they're retracting fold back inwards providing more grip...supposedly. It was offered at $10 a tire. On the sample piece of rubber they had, you could bend the piece (which was a completely flat block of tread, 4 inches long by 2 and a half inches wide or so) just a few degrees and see the blocks canyon out in the middle quite wide.
With that knowledge of sorts, could you get more traction in a Marauder on the track supercharged or naturally aspirated on take-off with this process performed?
Such a long post for such a short question. :)
So what do you all think?
This tire happenes to be on the only wheel that turns in a burnout, right rear.
I noticed some slipping with the tire being fresh, whereas my last tire had done 2 burnouts in the last 3 months and the rubber had messhed outwards in it's natural V shape...so the tread was basically a wider angle. So it gripped a lot more, period. (ex. the car has barked a whole lot more than normal with the new tire on)
I was also offered a process called "Siping" (sic?) when I got the new shoes where they put cuts in all of the individual tread blocks that forces the tread blocks to spread out (making two tread blocks) when they come down on the ground, and as they're retracting fold back inwards providing more grip...supposedly. It was offered at $10 a tire. On the sample piece of rubber they had, you could bend the piece (which was a completely flat block of tread, 4 inches long by 2 and a half inches wide or so) just a few degrees and see the blocks canyon out in the middle quite wide.
With that knowledge of sorts, could you get more traction in a Marauder on the track supercharged or naturally aspirated on take-off with this process performed?
Such a long post for such a short question. :)
So what do you all think?