Hello group,
I'm the owner/driver (Phil Grisotti shares the driving chores) of #82 Salty
'cuda. This car has set a few records at El Mirage and Bonneville over the
last decade, getting me in both "2" clubs, and although Phil set a record at
B-ville at 216, he is only in the dirty two club; so far. We are in the
Lakers Car Club.
I've enjoyed reading the LSR e-mail back and forth for several weeks now, and
finally decided to jump in.
On shaved tires, Nate at Nate Jones Firestone in Long Beach has perfected the
art of tire shaving. He not only does it to reduce the tire weight at the
circumference, but to shape the tire. He has years of experience in this and
has recently been shaping some of the streamliner/lakester teams' tires.
They are attempting to control the footprint size/shape at speed with all the
down-force, and tire growth factored in.
Nate can share a lot on care and feeding of LSR tires as well. He recommends
filling them with Nitrogen gas instead of air, and between meets, taking the
weight off them, bagging them in plastic, filling the bag with Nitrogen,
storing them flat on a cool surface like on the floor of the root cellar,
with only enough air pressure to hold the shape, like 20 psi. The intent is
to keep the ozone and other bad things in the air we breath, from penetrating
the rubber, and to keep the natural oils in the rubber from out-gassing.
Lastly, Happy New Year/Century, and the start of a year long New Millennium
celebration.
Jim Snyder in La Habra, CA
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