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Re: Tire PSI

To: "mgs@autox.team.net" <mgs@Autox.Team.Net>
Subject: Re: Tire PSI
From: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 15:33:35 -0400
Todd Mullins wrote:
> Yes, Kai's right.  Optimum tire PSI depends not on the particular tire,
> but on the overall weight and weight distribution of the car.  The idea
> is to keep the tire's contact patch consistent.  Too little or too much
> air distorts the tire's contact patch, thereby reducing it.

  Be careful though, if you are using radial tires on a
car who specified tire pressures for bias ply.

  Without going out on a limb to say in which direction this
affects tire pressure, suffice to say it throws the original
spec out the window.

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