Ditto for me. I get some serious understeer as the tires heat up resulting
in the front end sliding/scrubbing in the carousel at TWS. I think this
causes my tire wear. I rotate more now.
Bob Kramer
rkramer3@austin.rr.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry Frye" <henry@henryfrye.com>
To: "Larry Young" <cartravel@pobox.com>
Cc: <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 7:48 AM
Subject: Re: Calling you tire/suspension experts
> The rears show the same pattern, but not as bad. I ran the set of tires
for
> about 1/2 the race weekend at Mosport last year, then a couple sessions at
> the Glen before the car broke. Then I rotated them and drove the wheels
off
> the car at Mid-Ohio, and came home with these tires.
>
> I appears the left front causes the lions share of the wear, which makes
> sense as we run our tracks clockwise. The right front has the exact same
> pattern, but the wear is not as severe.
>
> I run a Salisbury LSD, but the rear tires do not seem to wear abnormally
at
> all.
>
> At 07:24 AM 04/13/2004 -0500, you wrote:
> >I'd like to know the answer to this too, because mine and Bob Kramers
wear
> >the same way. You might conclude this means too much negative camber,
but
> >tire temperatures don't seem to indicate that. Is the wear caused
> >primarily by the front or the rear? It's difficult to tell since you've
> >rotated them. You might assume it is the front causing wear, but if
> >you've got a welded or very tight LSD rearend there is a lot of scrubbing
> >that goes on.
> >Larry Young
> >
> >Henry Frye wrote:
> >
> >>I have been seeing tire wear on my TR4 vintage racer that indicates to
me
> >>I can improve something in the front end setup, but I can't figure out
> >>what to do. Take a look at these pictures:
> >>
> >>http://www.henryfrye.com/tires/
> >>
> >>Any comments, observations, words of wisdom? It would be nice to get
more
> >>that two weekends on a set of tires.
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