Tire Traction Treatment
Tire Traction Treatment
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Our racing league has opened our tire rules to allow treatment with chemicals for softer compounds. Does anyone here have experience or knowledge of such?
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RE: Tire Traction Treatment
RE: Tire Traction Treatment
- Last season I've used Lubrication Dynamics tire treatment products: I've tried the original (#7000 / 7016) Hot Lap and LMT (7032) products several times, under various conditions.
Here are my experiences so far:
1. Generally, the recommended method for use (10-14 coats within 3 days from Hot lap, 2 coats from LMT on saturday) doesn't work on model cars. This is just too much. When treated the same tire we normally used, it became so soft that it weared down totally within a few laps (5-8 minute run)
3. Normally I used LMT with 2 coats the day before the race, or the race day, a few hours before race. I didn't really noticed a significant benefit in lap times - perhaps model cars are a bit different than real ones. On the other hand I gain a lot on significantly lower tire costs. Tires really last longer, and the initial "new tire" traction can be restored on used tires allmost all the time.
4. Treatment almost stops tire aging. Treated tires remain soft even after multiple months.
5. There was a really interesting thing that happened: For the Slavkov EFRA GP in early June, we've prepared two sets of 15 (soft) type tyres according to point 2. As I wrote there, the 1st set weared down totally within 6-8 minutes. I just forget the whole thing, then accidently put on the 2nd set of prepared tires on a race on 23rd September - around 3.5 months after tire treatment. And that set just didn't want to wear - I run it for the whole race - and I was around 3-4 tenth faster than expected.