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Subject: nitro tires
From: "john taylor" <jat1127@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 22:39:36 -0400 FILETIME=[1AB1C5F0:01C48271]
Listers,

Nitrogen is used in a lot of competition tires simply because it is more  
temperature  stable than the gas mix that makes up air. Yes, it is also true 
that compressing air makes a good deal of moisture.

For many years I ran SCCA events in many different types of cars and we ran 
hundreds of events in 1600 Formula Ford. Yes, we used nitrogen and yes we 
would see less of an increase in tire pressure after say a 30 lap event on 
it reather than on air. This simply made it easier to get the proper chassis 
setup and hold it.

If usying air you would need to take a greater expansion into consideration. 
like starting the event a pound short to get to the setting of say 15/17lbs. 
Nitrogen would let you set at 16 if that was the goal and stay there. Nice.

Happy motoring


Greenfield, Ma
Gloucester, Ma
USA.
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