 Maximum Tire pressure (a police perspective)
ray wrote:
> Mike Romain wrote:
>>
>> As I mentioned, put 50 psi in my tires (the sidewall max) and only a
>> 3" width of tread touches the ground, go to the proper 30 and 7 out of
>> 7.5" touches the ground.
>>
>
> What about wide low profile tires? Would it be as extreme? I'm curious
> - my Trans Am comes out of storage tomorrow and it has 275-40/17's, so
> now I'm going to see if I can actually see if it looks "bulged" with max
> pressure in it. Then I'll do a couple of burnouts for science to see
> what the contact patch looks like. Then I'll bleed some air out and do
> some more burnouts. Then I'll just drive around for a couple of hours
> and do burnouts. Yeah, I'm a goof, but I love burnouts. I don't know
> why, but I do. If I ever re-do my driveway, I'm getting a concrete
> launch pad installed because I actually tore up the asphalt with my
> truck doing... a burnout to test the posi. :)
>
> Ray
LOL! Well, I only got 2.75" touching when I spun them up hard, a bit
less than the chalk test gave me. I had to test my new clutch out eh.
Mike | 
