Greg Weld's 65 Mustang fastback track car - Lateral-g Forums

Vince@Meanstreets · #1 10-18-2011, 11:17 PM

trailer tires seem to do that to you when you least expect it....oh and remember when charley tells you to "go out and hit the pace car" shake your head and just ignore him. LOL

**GregWeld** · #2 10-19-2011, 06:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Vince@MSperfab

trailer tires seem to do that to you when you least expect it....oh and remember when charley tells you to "go out and hit the pace car" shake your head and just ignore him. LOL

Vince --- The tires on the trailer have lots and lots of tread (and were made in '08 so they're not old).... but on both tires the entire tread came off like they were retreads (they're not!). I check the pressure before every haul and usually during a haul... they had 80 #'s which is the max rating for the tire. The remaining tires - including the spare - will be replaced this week with Goodyears to match the two I bought. Funny - the Goodyears max is 65 #'s...

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I got in trouble with the race steward a couple of time during the weekend... and Charley warned me that I would! They had to remind me - nicely - that I was in YELLOW PANTS GROUP.... in one session I was "making people nervous".... Okay -- I get that.... some of these guys/gals were on track doing about 40 in the straights... Here I come around the corner and its "punch it! I know the road"! (LOL).... and I go flying by them WOT.... I needed to "tip toe" around them... My bad! I forgot I was on a track... you know - for race cars.... BUT they were RIGHT..... I was still in the YELLOW PANTS and GREEN HARNESS group...

^^^^^^ Not sure how I'd move up to Red group.... unless I could show that I can drive accordingly... and the Red group ain't doing 40 in the straights... And the steward did ask me to move up if I wanted to -- I just was having too much fun in Yellow because I had the track to myself a lot of the time... and could spend more time on the line - and braking - and shifting etc without "traffic".

My final session I did an off road at Stielow corner... all four in the dirt... Turn 5 sweeping right and is the down hill side of 5A which is an uphill hard left with a downhill blind right... After a dicing drive with an instructor in his late model Mustang... he came over to me at the beginning of this session and gave me some pointers about where I should place my tires on a couple of the turns to gain time... He wanted me to be more to the right side of the track on 5 after clipping 5A... (I was taking it more to the middle).... So I tried to come off 5A "straighter" to clip the curb on 5... EXCEPT I put the right front in the dirt.... which grabbed and brought the ass around and rather than spin - I straightened her up and just cut the corner rather than try to gather it up. They had actually talked about that in the driver meeting -- to not try to do any "heroics" once you're in the dirt.... and I remembered that -- and it worked... The dirt is very soft -- and once I felt the ass get loose - I just straightened it out and cut the corner - got back on track - slowed down - cleaned the tires around the next couple turns.... THEN I got black flagged (again)... and had to come in and explain myself and rightly so.

Track Junky · #3 10-19-2011, 11:42 AM

Keep in mind that the trailor tires will get hot during transit so they probably exceeded the 80 lbs if you put 80 lbs into them to start with.

Great job on the track btw!!

**Stuart Adams** · #4 10-19-2011, 12:50 PM

80 psi. Holy crap batman. That must have a had a eventful blowout. Did it damage the trailer fender?

**GregWeld** · #5 10-19-2011, 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Stuart Adams

80 psi. Holy crap batman. That must have a had a eventful blowout. Did it damage the trailer fender?

Ummmmmm..... it got my attention.... like a cannon going off! And I'm an internationally licensed pyro --- so I've heard my fair share of explosions!

This thread is worthless without pictures......

**GregWeld** · #6 10-19-2011, 04:23 PM

Just for clarity of the situation --- those tires have MANY MANY long distance trips -- as in Scottsdale and back to Seattle several times -- LA and back several times - So it isn't the air pressure that "suddenly" blew the tread off TWO tires on the same trip.... my guess it DELAMINATING.... since both tires suffered the exact "tread loss"....Neither tire blew out the sidewall....

Just FYI -- Load range "E" tires are 80# cold max pressure --- you can have the same size tire with a lower load range rating and it will have a lower max pressure.

**Stuart Adams** · #7 10-19-2011, 06:21 PM

You are a scream. Glad your safe.

Jr · #8 10-20-2011, 08:42 AM

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Originally Posted by GregWeld

Why is the rear of the mustang louvered?

**GregWeld** · #9 10-19-2011, 04:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Track Junky

Keep in mind that the trailor tires will get hot during transit so they probably exceeded the 80 lbs if you put 80 lbs into them to start with.

Great job on the track btw!!

80#'s is the COLD max tire pressure rating....

Thanks for the kudos -- I sure had fun!