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1. Re: Tire reliabilty, and traction control (score: 1): Author: "Steve Pitt" <stpitt@zipcon.net>; Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 07:29:30 -0800; Interesting reading, comments, and opinions (good)....I enjoyed reading your comments. Also, thanks for the hospitality at El Mirage. I enjoyed visiting with you and Jeff and I hope to see you again; /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00003.html (11,351 bytes)
2. Re: Tire reliabilty, and traction control (score: 1): Author: rtmack <RTMACK@pop3.concentric.net>; Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 12:33:55 -0600; There may be some cases of tire failure that are purely a function of overload-- God knows some of our racers manage to load the hell out of them. But you were the first one who told me (before I ha; /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00014.html (10,187 bytes)
3. Re: Tire reliabilty, and traction control (score: 1): Author: rtmack <RTMACK@pop3.concentric.net>; Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 13:00:56 -0600; I apologize if that was offensive. I meant to "twist your tail" a little bit, but just to get your attention. We all know how much you respect and care for the other racers. Russ /// /// land-speed@; /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00017.html (10,327 bytes)
4. Re: Tire reliabilty, and traction control (score: 1): Author: "glen barrett" <speedtimer@charter.net>; Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 11:46:20 -0800; Regarding the lakester with some cord and blistering showing. The question is was this one run or several runs on the tires. Over the years I have seen many tires with this condition and even know fo; /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00021.html (11,546 bytes)
5. Re: Tire reliabilty, and traction control (score: 1): Author: Higginbotham Land Speed Racing <saltrat@pro-blend.com>; Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 15:23:03 -0600; @#%$&*( trailers Russ, I don't think I said anything different about slippage. At least I didn't mean to (still think 15% slippage is real). Just commented on my take on the tire failure mode. I don'; /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00026.html (12,338 bytes)
6. Re: Tire reliabilty, and traction control (score: 1): Author: "glen barrett" <speedtimer@charter.net>; Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 14:03:13 -0800; Skip and list Regarding tire failures including Earl Woodens. His tires had two grooves down the center of the tire about 1 inch apart. We spent a lot of time doing the investigation from the point o; /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00030.html (14,855 bytes)
7. Re: Tire reliabilty, and traction control (score: 1): Author: Joe Amo <jkamo@rapidnet.com>; Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 17:07:09 -0700; Actually, TC works (I mean, would likely work :):)) best on two wheel machines, but alas, the "little" salt dance that the back end does, is a naturally beautiful way for the rear to "hunt" for tract; /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00034.html (9,911 bytes)
8. Re: Tire reliabilty, and traction control (score: 1): Author: rtmack <RTMACK@pop3.concentric.net>; Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 20:53:47 -0600; I started this thread thinking that Earl's car was a prime example of a current trend of tire problems. From your information below, it sounds like Earl's tire failure may have been an anomaly, inst; /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00042.html (13,123 bytes)
9. Re: Tire reliabilty, and traction control (score: 1): Author: rtmack <RTMACK@pop3.concentric.net>; Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 21:18:33 -0600; since I am thinking that my own first LSR machine will likely be a bike-- and not particularly powerful by todays standards-- I will not prioritize TC for it, even if TC becomes legal. So I'm lookin; /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00044.html (10,433 bytes)
10. Re: Tire reliabilty, and traction control (score: 1): Author: rtmack <RTMACK@pop3.concentric.net>; Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 21:21:53 -0600; another thing I like about what you are saying: you can always dance WITH the bike, if you are "zoned-in". When the cars start dancing, they always want to LEAD! Russ /// /// land-speed@autox.team.n; /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00045.html (9,643 bytes)
11. Re: Tire reliabilty, and traction control (score: 1): Author: Joe Amo <jkamo@rapidnet.com>; Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 20:31:30 -0700; Why (respectfully) in the hell would you campaign for TC, then proclaim not wanting to run it on a, vehicle with half the contact patch, and often twice the drag????? Joe :) /// /// land-speed@autox.; /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00046.html (11,278 bytes)
12. Re: Tire reliabilty, and traction control (score: 1): Author: rtmack <RTMACK@pop3.concentric.net>; Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 21:28:27 -0600; Skip and I weren't at World Finals. I'm thinking Skip was talking about an earlier Turbinator tire problem (Speed Week or WoS) that I seem to remember hearing about. Quite a promotional on the MT ti; /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00047.html (11,379 bytes)
13. Re: Tire reliabilty, and traction control (score: 1): Author: Joe Amo <jkamo@rapidnet.com>; Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 20:39:06 -0700; Disclaimer, I only spend the energy on profanity for those folks that I like Joe :) /// /// land-speed@autox.team.net mailing list /// To unsubscribe send a plain text message to majordomo@autox.team; /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00048.html (11,747 bytes)
14. Re: Tire reliabilty, and traction control (score: 1): Author: Flowbench@aol.com; Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 00:06:30 EST; << If these guys don't know how to drive a land speed racer, you'll have a hard time convincing me that anybody does. Your turn. Russ >> Earl had a tire blister on the run before the failure. He did; /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00051.html (9,723 bytes)
15. Re: Tire reliabilty, and traction control (score: 1): Author: rtmack <RTMACK@pop3.concentric.net>; Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 00:34:24 -0600; like I said, I think some of the more powerful cars are killing their tires with wheelspin. I want them to have the option of TC to try to help prevent high speed tire failures. I haven't seen the t; /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00053.html (11,745 bytes)
16. Re: Tire reliabilty, and traction control (score: 1): Author: rtmack <RTMACK@pop3.concentric.net>; Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 00:39:48 -0600; profanity doesn't bother me a bit. When I get worked-up, I've even been known to use a little, myself. Especially when I'm working with sheet metal. If you weren't passionate about your sport, you l; /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00054.html (9,193 bytes)
17. Re: Tire reliabilty, and traction control (score: 1): Author: rtmack <RTMACK@pop3.concentric.net>; Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 01:14:09 -0600; I've been looking in particular for your response. Thanks for the excellent information! HEY, LIST-- see that about the tire blisters? I'm not saying that blisters can't come from overload (only)--; /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00055.html (10,968 bytes)
18. Re: Tire reliabilty, and traction control (score: 1): Author: Rick Hammond <r.hammond@sympatico.ca>; Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 02:23:52 -0500; I can't say I agree that TC as we know it would work on the bikes, though let's see how they do with 250hp 4-stroke GP bikes next year, and how they handle it. I just got the latest (Jan. 2002) Cycl; /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00056.html (11,007 bytes)
19. Re: Tire reliabilty, and traction control (score: 1): Author: "john backus" <34ford@msn.com>; Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 22:27:43 -0500; As I view it, traction control is handled in two ways; the application of braking to the spinning tire/s and /or closing of the throttle momentarily. Either would be detrimental to increasing speed a; /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00196.html (9,766 bytes)
20. Re: Tire reliabilty, and traction control (score: 1): Author: Dave Dahlgren <ddahlgren@snet.net>; Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 05:11:27 -0500; The brain being a wonderful computer is poetic and a nice thought, but unfortunately pretty optimistic in the bigger picture of things. The brain cannot process what it is not aware of. If you think; /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00198.html (10,405 bytes)

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