My input on this,
Now I don't like G-force but I am standing behind them here
it is not the tire at fault But ask your friend for me What tire
pressures he was running Too low pressures, this is similar to what
caused the EGOD, but the old R-1's loved low pressure so this was
somthing we lived with.. The G-spots (from what I heard) Hate low
pressure and if you friend was running his old R-1 pressures this may
have been significant to push the center of the tire together (and up
toward the rim, not away like the R-1) under connering, tearing away
the rubber from the cord, where the old r-1 would push this rubber
towards the pavement and causing it to wear in a "non existant" groove
Take a pencil eraser, soft huh, kinda like a R-tire, well pull on two
same side cornners it flexes but you really would have to pull the
S#!T out of it to rip it, now Push on those same cornners towards the
center the oppisite side of the eraser will bend and split in a
magnitude of what you pushed that side. that is the best I can
explain the diffrence between tire construction and what *MAY* have
caused this problem Moral (Inflate them HIGH) then work down. the tire
will get less grip before you hurt it
(normal disclamer) YMMV IMHO
This is based on 3rd party data, yadda yadda yadda,
Jeff Lloyd
>Last Saturday I went at the Talladega gran prix track for a test&tune
>day. I tested my talon tsi awd to the track on a set of yokos
a032rs.
>Anyway, a friend of mine was there also with an Isuzu I-Mark RS with
>g-force R1 tires. He previously autocrossed them at one event
before,
>but they still had plenty of tread. He came in after 3 hot laps to
get
>a temperature reading on the tires and they were 80 degrees all
around.
>He went back out and after 5 or 6 hot laps he came in again
complaining
>of a sudden loss of grip which almost made him fly off the track in
one
>of the fast banked right-hander turns. His front left tire was
>completely destroyed. It looked like the tread was peeled off the
>middle of the tire. There was a 3 inch or so wide "trench" in the
tire
>running along the whole circumference of the tire. The middle part
was
>completely shredded away and the some of the metal cords was also
>ripped. We quickly took a temperature reading and it still read
around
>80 degrees, which is low compared with the old R1s. Tread was still
>visible on the inside of the tire, or what was left of it to prove
that
>the tire was new. I am hoping that BFG will help him out with a new
>tire because clearly this one had a defect. Has anyone else
experienced
>such a problem? Any s
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