As a starting point I'd suggest a search of Hot Rod Magazines from the
late fifties and their articles on the then new, Firestone land-speed
tires. There were some rather comprehensive explanations about the
tire construction at that time. (Darn! ... Wish I hadn't given those
magazines away when I got married.) As I remember they went into some
rather extensive detail about the way the cords were laid up in the
tires. They had delivered a set of land-speed tires to Ab Jenkins a
few days before his unexpected death in 1956 so they were not working
from a blank sheet of paper with their thinking.
Wes
On Aug 22, 2006, at 8:23 AM, Higginbotham Land Speed Racing wrote:
> Doug,
> Wonder what would happen to Goodyear tires if someone shaved them and
> then performed a dynamic test under various loads? Who would I ask?
> Gene Burkland spin tests but with no load on the tire. Better than no
> test at all but he has not tested Goodyears to my knowledge. I
> understand that the bead is the weak point on tires.....maybe we ought
> to gather up a group of engineering folk and design a new tire that
> could go 500 with a margin of safety. Anybody interested?
> Skip in hot, dusty old Pahrump
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> At 06:54 AM 8/22/2006, Doug Odom wrote:
>> Skip, If you say 300.001mph or higher to Goodyear they will not talk
>> to you, period. If you figure a 10 % safety factor, shave them, then
>> you are at 330mph. After that you are in no-mans land I guess. Doug
>> Odom in big ditch
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>> Higginbotham Land Speed Racing wrote:
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>>> So when you ask Goodyear what the rating is at 80# or 90# pressure
>>> and 900# load.....what do you get? Should be a higher speed? How
>>> much higher? Who do you ask? Who do you believe?
>>> Skip
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