Tire Care for land speed tires

[BurtonBrown]

looking for words of wisdom for taking care of landspeed tires.

I assume the following:

Lower air pressures to 20-30 psi
Move into a controlled enviroment away from sunlight extreme heat/cold
armor all

I am trying to prevent the sidewalls from cracking.
Any words of wisdom are appreciated!

Burton Brown

[Beairsto Racing]

I heard a tip years ago, advising against storing tires near appliances (beer fridge?) that had electric motors running. Apparently, brush type motors produce rubber damaging ozone from the repeated sparking at the commutator.

Nate Jones has always recommended that tires get wrapped in plastic as well during storage.

[Moxnix]

Rub on pure carnauba wax before bagging.

[panic]

Seal the bags tightly to reduce gas-out.
Just a guess: if the bag will take it, pressurize it to a few psi with CO2 or nitrogen (something inert - argon if you can spare it!) to oppose evap of chems.

[BurtonBrown]

Thanks,

Will try these.

Burton

[Freud]

And if u really want to extend their life, don't have them supporting the car when you transport.

Use a junk set. The wiggling on the surface of the trailer can flat spot them, especially of there is extra weight in the car for traction.

I have also seen tires punctured on the return road from debris. Load the car on the trailer or lift it off the ground with a dolly.

I know, "a lot'a people push back on their good tires."  I also know some puncture tires that way. If the cost of tires is no problem,

do as u want.

FREUD

[Dean Los Angeles]

Sunlight, temperature, and primarily oxygen. The tire is attacked on the inside too. Fill the tires with nitrogen and then bag them and fill the bag with nitrogen.

Don't use CO². Still has oxygen in it.
Argon will work too.

[836dstr]

McMaster-Carr sells heavy duty black "trash" bags in a lot of different sizes (up to 80 gallons as I recall). I just ordered some 55 gallon bags that hold a 28" tire nicely.

Tom

[BurtonBrown]

Thanks for the info guys!!!
Appreciated.
Burton

[Uncle Jimbo]

Good stuff, thanks guys. I have some carnauba wax so I'll coat them, reduce pressure to 20lbs and bag em.  My garage freezes and then thaws when Iam in there working, so I guess maybe I should put the bagged tires in the basement ?  It stays a fairly consistent 65° there. My old tires, only a couple years old, limited race miles on them, but were showing small sidewall cracking, so we got new rubber.
I was just going to coat them with some good old black shinola polish like Bert would do - OK, ok, just kidding -

Thanks for the info - we'll be waxin and baggin
Jimbo