I just recently became a guest blogger on a racing blog called Racing Ready. I'm not much of a writer, but here goes nothin! I just thought some of you guys would be interested so I'll post a link.

This time it was about my tire pressures, which almost ruined my time at the last autox. Thankfully I had lots of friends who told me what I was doing wrong. I guess thats how you learn!

I figured I would share my info, so here's the link

http://racingready.com/2010/05/27/ti...s-tuning-tips/

Feel free to post any reply on here or on the Racing Ready site. I should be doing more of these in the months to come.

 

Great info man! tyvm

 

Interesting info you present here, tire pressure on track days is always an issue that affects me. I notice that the pressure varies greatly as the sun starts to go down, I was still expcting the tire pressure to come up and instead the times fell dramatically for me. Maybe you can expand on this situation, also about finding a baseline tire pressure to start off the day also please.

 

Thanks guys!!

I have seen I big difference in sun location as well. Being in Texas, there is a HUGE difference between morning sessions and mid day. You may want to invest in a pyrometer. Autozone has a really cheap one ($30 I think) it's an OEM brand. This way you can actually see what the difference is.

What type of tires are you running?

Anti-DNF = lmfao!

 

^ I am running Nitto 555's & if I am not too lazy I usually like to run my OEM wheels and Potenzas, most of the time. The Nitto's are nuch grippier with the tire pressures lower in the rear, I prefer to run off the Potenzas due to them throwing off marbles on long hard runs. I will look into a pyrometer on Tuesday, we have a open track day coming up soon.


youR not 1 of them DNF types, r u???

 

Not if I can help it! I usually stay clean. Except for when my anger gets the best of me, then I'm a cone killer! One time I was at a divisional autox and decided to take out a few gates to show my car who was the boss! Unfortunatley, it showed me that it was that boss and not me: I broke the brackets on my front skid pad...oops