When are the sidewalls done?

Seen all kinds of posts and talking about how many runs they get on a set of slicks till the sidewalls are done. How do you tell? Stiff wall and regular wall..

If you keep a good log book, you should be able to tell by your 60's

Curt wrote:If you keep a good log book, you should be able to tell by your 60's

X2 when your 60s start to fall off theyre done. Stiff sidewalls will typically last a few more runs than a standard sidewall, but every combo is different.

hell! when your poor! the side walls leak air as fast as you put it in! lol! I agree when the 60's fall off

My experience has been a little different...I don't notice a loss in 60' as much as I notice my reaction times starting to move around....or I have to start rolling delay out to keep on the edge.
A very experienced chassis man from this area told me once..."stiff sidewalls or not, after 100 passes, get them off the car. I don't care what the tread looks like...get them off the car."
I'm not sure if I agree totally with a "set" number such as 100...as I have put over double, almost triple that on sets...
Like mentioned above...keep a good log book and watch for changes.

With the smallblock car around 100 passes and the reaction time goes to hell, guys who run them till the holes are gone either have no power or are just career test n tuners.

i m certainly a career tnt ...but i do notice my 60' go away after 50 passes or so ....

richter69 wrote:With the smallblock car around 100 passes and the reaction time goes to hell, guys who run them till the holes are gone either have no power or are just career test n tuners.

dont talk about me that way! hell,poor people got poor way's. i try to get 200 passes outa mine but i'm not too hard on them in the burnout.

cool40 wrote:

richter69 wrote:With the smallblock car around 100 passes and the reaction time goes to hell, guys who run them till the holes are gone either have no power or are just career test n tuners.

dont talk about me that way! hell,poor people got poor way's. i try to get 200 passes outa mine but i'm not too hard on them in the burnout.

dang, we try to get 25 passes, on 29.5x10.5s, then we sell them to slower cars. they usually put about 100 on them after we get rid of them. we change them when they start to get loose on the big end.

I have NEVER gotten over 75 passes out of ANY slick. Stiff, tubes, rotated, mild burnout, it doesnt matter they start to fall off around 65-70 passes, and my car only goes 1 teens - low 1.2s in the 60. If you guys have some secrets or magic you work to get that many passes I would be all ears. Its never a contact patch issue, it always seems that either the sidewall is shot, or the compound is dead by that point. I log everything in my log book, and could predict with regularity when they are gonna fall off. I have found the MT stiffs with tubes to be the longest lasting, and Goodyears to go away VERY quickly( I only got 30 passes out of them before I had to do John Force burnouts to hook at all). This topic is pretty interesting, and I would be interested to see what others get out of their tires.

well from a career tnt'er i usually get 50 passes on mine before i start to lose my 60'

I would be sick if I only got 30 passes out of a set...
I have had the best luck with the regular sidewall M/T #3074...well over 200 shots on a slower car....100+ on my car.
I'm sure BigDog466 will chime in on this one too...I believe he got about 260 passes or so on his last set of GY Eagles.

I spoke to a Goodyear rep after I was so disgusted with the set I had, and he said that something had to be wrong and offered to look at them and see what he could find. By that time I had already went back to the 32x14s MT ET Drag, its a tire Im comfortable with and very predictable on my car, but like I said if there are guys getting over 100 passes on them, Im all ears.

maybe i'm missing something? if i could'nt get more than 50 passes outa my 15x33 m/t's before it slowed down or had some kinda problem down the track i'd sure be looken for a reason why.the last set of good years i had were off a "fast car"who changed after 30 passes and they went 1.22 60's and 5.70's 1/8mile.i ran them so long i wont even tell you. maybe a slow car like mine just aint hard on tires.

cool40 wrote:maybe i'm missing something? if i could'nt get more than 50 passes outa my 15x33 m/t's before it slowed down or had some kinda problem down the track i'd sure be looken for a reason why.the last set of good years i had were off a "fast car"who changed after 30 passes and they went 1.22 60's and 5.70's 1/8mile.i ran them so long i wont even tell you. maybe a slow car like mine just aint hard on tires.

My cars slow, but apparently it likes to have new shoes regularly. Fickle B@tch.

i dont have any problems hooken up.when i took the g/y's off and put the new m/t's on it ran the very same numbers as before.that's why i run the 15x33's cuz i have good luck with them,hell it may be slowen me down to run a tire that big but it sure does last.i footbrake the car when i do race so i would'nt know anything about r/t.