To deflate or not to deflate???

[airbrat]

what do the majority of you FWD guys prefer to do? Lately I've been deflating my front tires to 17-18psi and it seems to work great. I've yet to over-inflate my rear tires. This seems to work great also against wheel hop.

also does deflating work differently on different brand tires?

 

[ONR]

in my neon...i usualy go down to about anywhere from 26-28 thats wherei found the sweet spot is on my tires...just go to the track alot and practice youll find hwere your tires like to be...i found mine like more pressure than lil pressure...good luck

 

[airbrat]

anyone else???

 

[91TSi FWD]

Different tires will work differently just because of tread pattern. Some tires will wrap around the tire a small bit: http://www.nacdsm.org/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=Matts-Galery&id=Cnv0001 (Also, higher preformance tires are more flat to get more tread on the ground in the first place)

Whereas others will have most of the tread on the top of the tire: http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/science/08/31/no.rubber.tires/story.new.car.tire.jpg (Yes, I know you would never put tires like these on a DSM, but it gets the point across)

 

[Wizard]

Usually the rule of thumb is to deflate the tires until wheelhop stops. Nothing less. Less tire pressure doesn't necessarily help traction, it just prevents wheelhop (tire is grabbing and letting go) which is one of the number one factors of breaking. Also Poly motor mounts also prevent wheelhop.

Over inflate the rear tires to no more than 10psi over the manufacturer's recc.

Wiz

 

[airbrat]

I found that deflating my front tires to 20psi (Yokohama) resulted w/ me cutting consistent 2.1-2.2 60fts

I guess it just takes more experimenting. thanks for the feedback guys