At 10:27 AM 3/3/2001, Whitney said:
>On any car, with the autocross compounds, 30-40 runs is abut the best you
>can get, if you use one of the harder compounds (street TD's for the bias,
>or road race for the radials count on 50-100% more). This is with religous
>swapping front to rear and inside out.
Hi Stan -
Be careful with those absolute comments - there's always an exception ;-)
For our S2000, we went down to Ft Myers/Meridian with two new sets of
non-heat cycled Hoosier autocross compound tires. We did...
Ft Myers:
12 practice runs on Wed (set A)
45 practice runs on Wed (set B)
24 practice runs on Thu (B)
flipped Set B Thur night (thanks Mike Taylor at CUT)
12 practice launches on Fri (B)
36 competitive runs on Sat/Sun (A)
4 bonus challenge runs (A)
Meridian:
15 practice runs on Fri (B)
18 competitive runs on Sat/Sun (A)
So 70 runs on Set A and 96 runs on Set B. Set A also has a full 540 degree
spin by Jason at the finish line in Ft Myers ;-)
Set B was flipped in Ft Myers and the rears are about done. Set B fronts
and Set A all have quite a bit of life left on them.
This is about as abusive as you can be on a set of tires (85+ degrees, high
grip concrete, spinning the tires heavily for Prosolo launches). I'm
amazed at how easy the car is on tires. I guess having a good weight
distribution and a lot of static camber/caster is useful for something ;-)
Brad
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