WOW, that is really great news. One thing I will say about new tires, be very careful about break-in. Spend some time working up to speed. Can't say for sure that MT tires need break in but when we ran Goodyears, we were at around 310 mph. Those were the days that required 3 runs for a record. We lost a tire and had to replace one. On the down run, we ran 312 (on a fresh tire). There were twelve 50 cent sized holes that the rubber had chucked. Al Teague looked at it and said "no problem, just trim them up so there are no ragged edges". We did that and made the return run. The point is that the same tires ran fine at a given speed after being "conditioned" but a new tire had problems. People have talked about putting the tires on a street car and just driving around for a while to "work " them in. Don't know if that is really good, bad, or indifferent. One thing that I do know, in 1980, when we were first trying to figure out something about this Land Speed Racing deal, I developed a program that could determine the rolling resistance of the tires. So the idea was to mount the MT's on my Z-28 Camaro. We put 90 pounds of air in the tires. Ran the car up to 100 mph, kicked into neutral, and let it coast down. At that point, I became really amazed at the value of a pneumaticic tire for a suspension item. I thought the car was going to kill itself from the vibration and the small imperfections in the road. The end to this story is that when Ed and I were driving back down to the service station to take the tires off, I met a car that flashed its lights at us. Now we live in a very rural area, the town has less than 200 people. I asked Ed if he knew who that person was and he said "not a clue". my thoughts were that -it's my car, I'm driving-Im screwed. At that time, Washington had instituted a random saftey stop regime. I said to Ed, sorry we are going on a different road. I turned around and avoided the bottleneck which turned out to be a safety inspection. I can just imagine the cops calling out to all others-" hey look at these tires, they say for expirimental use only- not for highway use. What size do you think the ticket would have been?
