anyone know of anywhere in the buff area that does tire heat cycling.!?
burnouts
http://www.discounttiredirect.com/direct/brochure/tire/HeatCycleInfo.jsp for people who don’t know. i presonally find it unnecessary. maybe the experience racers here can shed some light. what i get from it is you are breaking in the rubber
Kinda like “curing” the rubber so it performs well longer.
I’ve read a couple different theories on how to do it;
-Hit up an on/off ramp clover leaf and do equal amounts of left and right turns for 10 minutes. Immediately remove from car let cool overnight.
-Do a few laps in a practice session, then do a few “at speed” laps, a few cool down laps. Pull in, immediately jack up car and let tires cool, or remove and cool.
The idea is to get them warm, up to temp (hot) and then cool. Avoid mudpuddles, ect., ect.
The general concensus is that people are happy with performance of heat cycled tires in the long run. Obviously the best way to do it is order them heat cycled.
Im 99% sure hes using them on a drag car
what does discounttire charge for cycling?
If you aren’t more consistent than the time you save from a modification, you need need to work on yourself, not your car.
maybe he just wants to break his tires in properly to maintain the best traction through out the whole life of the tire.
It can extend the usable life of competition tires, but every manufacturer has a different process. If you are looking for info on street tires, don’t bother.
I had to do this when I raced FWD cars at holland.
If we put brand new rubber on the car, it would peel the thread right off and blow out withing 5 - 8 laps.
A Used tire could make 20 really hard laps and 30 laps most nights (30 lap features)
the tire was deffinatly junk after one night of racing no matter how seasoned it was.
Tho a regular heat cycle didnt work.
I had to put atleast 4000 miles on the tires for them to be worth a crap.
I did one set, bought used for the rest of the season.
Your best bet is to call around to the shops. If they don’t do it, then you could call Holland speedway or lancaster speedway if they know were to get it done.
well the nitto r2’s i had on the trans am prior to this current set lasted way longer than these ones. these ones weren’t heat cycled and the previous set was. so i’m a believer.
but again, this is for a convertible mustang. it’s not a track day car, also probably not a competitive drag car… so why the interest.
define track car?
psychopjv’s car is a ttop anniversary transam. does that mean he didn’t benefit from his previous set of tires being heat cycled?
he didnt bracket race it, and he didn’t auto-x it every weekend. :gotme:
the OP races at the track at least once a week, eiether Lancaster or NYI.
that would be considered a hard core enthusiast, guess…
yeah, it might make sense if it’s really that often and he’s get a dedicated set of wheels.
If he wasn’t running R-comps, then he didn’t see a benefit.
i plan on running at the track a lot…hopefully with everything im doing this spring to hit a mid to low 8 in the 1/8 nothing special but itd be nice…
also i have the new nitto 555r’s thats why…i go thru tires bad lol…id like these to last alil longer than my mickey et streets…hence why i want to heat cycle these ones
Nitto 555R-2 xtreme’s and they make a hell of a difference. Keeps the front from pushing.