As per Goodyear it's the duration of the event not the speed that is really
important. When your running four to twenty times the distance you can have
problems. We have experimented with drag sliks on slower speed cars, but
it's not recomended. Run the NASCAR tires they will work great for both
distance and speed.
At 09:56 AM 7/22/99 -0700, Ferguson, Darrell wrote:
>How about a 10 inch wide drag slick for Maxton? The Goodguys VDRA Top Fuel
>cars run 10 inch wide M&H Racemasters, and they're going 230 in the quarter.
>
> Darrell Ferguson
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Keith Turk [SMTP:kturk@ala.net]
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 8:56 PM
>> To: John Beckett; Dick Jurkowski; Thomas E. Bryant
>> Cc: land-speed@autox.team.net
>> Subject: Re: Tires
>>
>> Yep spent the Money and about destroyed them at the first Meet with the C
>> motor ( 425 hp ) Can't even imagine the D motor and those tires...
>>
>> I know if I ask there are folks that can find us the Maxton Only tire....
>> I
>> just don't know where yet... Maybe my guys in Charlotte.... who knows...
>>
>> Keith
>>
>> ----------
>> > From: John Beckett <johnbeck@blueridge.cc.nc.us>
>> > To: Dick Jurkowski <lsr_man@yahoo.com>; Thomas E. Bryant
>> <saltracer@awwwsome.com>
>> > Cc: land-speed@autox.team.net
>> > Subject: Re: Tires
>> > Date: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 4:29 PM
>> >
>> > Dick
>> >
>> > The only problem with Frontrunners and Maxton is that some guys are
>> putting
>> > a lot of HP combined with a lot of traction on a tire that was never
>> > designed to be on a drive wheel. They work fine if your easy on them.
>> The
>> > absolutly best tire for 'Maxton' is a NASCAR race tire, 27.5 to 28"
>> dia.,
>> > but 10 to 12" wide. If your using the Dodge body just add some tubs to
>> > allow for the wider tires.
>> >
>> > JB
>> >
>> > At 03:09 PM 7/21/99 -0400, Dick Jurkowski wrote:
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >--- "Thomas E. Bryant" <saltracer@awwwsome.com>
>> > >
>> > >Tom,
>> > >
>> > >If I could only afford one set of tires that had
>> > >to see me through both Maxton and the salt, what
>> > >do you recommend in a 15". I'm looking at XF/SR
>> > >and C/Coupe or Altered. When I look at ZR rated
>> > >street tires, the only thing I come up with is
>> > >really wide by the time I get anything near a
>> > >reasonable diameter. I had all but settled on
>> > >Front Runners when some of the Maxton guys
>> > >pointed out that they had bad experiences with
>> > >them on the rough Maxton mile.
>> > >
>> > >Thanks
>> > >Dick J
>> > >
>> >
>> >
>
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