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09-29-2014, 09:54 AM | #1 |
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RE-11's falling off after being heated up?
Has anyone running Bridgestone RE-11's had any experience with the grip falling off when they get really hot?
Ran my first AutoX event after installing them yesterday and I did two heats of 5 runs. In each heat, my 5th run was without a doubt my sloppiest run. Wondering if it's the tires getting hot or if it's me psyching myself out because it's the last run and I wanna be fast. Anyone?
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what are your pressures? what are the ambient temperatures? how do you drive? do you have video of your runs from inside the car? in my experience, over-inflated RE11's, driven hard, do in fact overheat quite quickly.
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The RE-11A is supposed to be a softer, more auto-x/track friendly compound than the RE-11 though. From TireRack: http://blog.tirerack.com/blog/motors...-11-and-re-11a Quote:
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If you're doing 5 runs back to back, you're probably ending up with much higher pressures than you want by the 4th and 5th run.
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Probably need to bleed the pressures and spray the tires and then see how they feel.
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09-29-2014, 12:32 PM | #6 |
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I was checking and adjusting pressures after each run. I started out with regular street pressures; 35-36psi and ended up dropping all the way down to 25 in the driver's front and 28 passenger rear. Even with pressures this low I wasn't folding the sidewalls, and could even probably go another few pounds lower.
Ambient temps were between 78 and 83*F but as stated, I was checking tire pressures between each run. My next event I will add tire temp to the data I collect. When taking temps on tires, is tread surface the best spot?
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Try something more like 32 front 30 rear. Spray as soon as they are anything more than 'warm' to the touch on a hot day. On a cold day I will wait till they are hot to the touch.
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Buy a 1 gallon garden pressure sprayer, fill it with water, and start spraying after your first or second runs to keep the tires cool.
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It's funny that people have a hard time keeping tires cool enough in autox, up here most local autox's have enough wait between runs you have to make sure the engine is warmed up!
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I've had autocrosses with co-drivers where we couldn't cool down the tires enough (Dunlop Star Specs), even with a 2 gallon sprayer full of cold water.
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I'd probably be more into autox if it were like that here, I get bored (ADD much?) waiting 45-60 minutes between runs.
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I had these tires on my last car, within a week it was clear they were horrible for track and street. They cannot handle heat. One of the few tires I regretted blowing money on.
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I would never go if it was 45-60 minutes between runs...up here I'm lucky if I have enough time to adjust tire pressures between runs and even then I'm being rushed
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