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Re: tire pressure

To: ritchie@mcn.org, tigers@Autox.Team.Net, Spook37211@aol.com
Subject: Re: tire pressure
From: Keith Bradshaw <bradshaw@utdallas.edu>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 14:31:35 -0500 (CDT)
 >
><< wondering if anyone else has done this.  I will keep close tabs on the
> tire wear in the center of the tread, but I sure like it better this way!!
> Maybe the po new what he was doing, although I think 50psi was too much.
> My arms sure were less tired after the last run, and I found that the car
> didn't bog down as much in the turns and I didn't have to down shift as
> much.  There's not many straight roads here (northern Calif) and most of
> our driving is up and down Hiway One.  The next thing I'm going to do is
> get rid of this high rise manifold, It does me no good on these roads.
> Regards Armand Ritchie
> 
> ritchie@mcn.org
> Armand & Lorie Ritchie
>  >>
>Operating tires on the street, with pressure THAT far in excess of
>recommended max pressures is like sitting on a time bomb.
>You risk damage to yourself, and, more importantly, the Tiger!
>Ray
>
Nonsense, Ray!

        Looking up that redoubtable reference Hunter Thompson,
in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" he did not get worried about
time bombing his new Michelins on his Cadillac Convertible until the
pressures were 100 psi each!!
He'd hoped it would turn the White Shark into a Lotus Elan, .....
it didn't, but it did skitter much better.

mBrad

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