Tire shaving depth?
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Tire shaving depth?
I'm looking at buying my first set of shaved tires for autocross duty. I would like to be able to drive to and from events without swapping tires once I get there. I'm thinking about the Dunlop *specs in 245/40/17. Any suggestions on a good depth? 6/32? 4/32?
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Eric
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Shaving is a process of removing some specified amount of the original tread so as to minimize tread block squirm and the associated heat generation. Basically, you sacrifice some of the original tread to improve performance.
For reference: Shaving tires
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No problems with chunking at full tread? I'm on stock suspension and can't get enough negative camber out of the front to keep the tires off of the outside shoulder. I can keep the tires from rolling over with pressure, but the shoulder still gets beat to hell.
I'm looking at running STU next season once I can put some money into a high quality set of coilovers. For now, I'm running in a local Street Tire A Stock class. I run AS when I'm out my home region, but after being dominated by s2000's on slicks today, I might just run STU--with the understanding that I won't be competitve against divisional/national level cars and drivers. But hey... it' my first full year.
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I'm looking at running STU next season once I can put some money into a high quality set of coilovers. For now, I'm running in a local Street Tire A Stock class. I run AS when I'm out my home region, but after being dominated by s2000's on slicks today, I might just run STU--with the understanding that I won't be competitve against divisional/national level cars and drivers. But hey... it' my first full year.
Eric
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I'm a Detroit Region homer, but I've driven with SVR, WMR, the Furrin Group (Western Michigan non-SCCA), and I was down in Ohio today with NWOR. I've had a busy summer to this point.
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If you've had good luck with Z1 star specs at full tread, I might just give those a shot. I think I met Otter briefly up at Oscoda earlier this year. We talked briefly about how rare stock Evo's are.
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For autoX, it's not uncommon to beat the hell out of the outside shoulder if you're not running enough negative camber and 3 degrees is not quite enough, especially with the Z1's.