Tire Help

[wrogers55]

Originally Posted by GBowman

W is the heat cycling something that the manufacturer does normally or do I need to get someone to do it for me? Not familiar with the process thx!

You can get most big suppliers to order the tires heat cycled, if you ask and if you get the right guy. Usually a small white or red circle, about the size of a dime, is stamped on the sidewall to indicate they have been cycled (heated and cooled). Google up something like "race tires heat cycle" or "heat cycle racing slicks" and you will get the idea.

Downside is, if you don't heat cycle a race or sticky type tire compound, the rubber will not cross link properly and it will have pretty good grip at some elevated temperature for a short period of time, but it will wear super fast.....really, really fast.

The NT-01s are pretty standard fare on DOT tire required road race machines running on moderate temperature tracks....below 250 degrees temp at the tires, and that's a bit high actually in my experience. The sidewalls are better suited for street use than most drag radials. And on the street, you will never see temps above that, except maybe in Phoenix or Dallas on black asphalt in August. These tires work really well cool, which is most of the time on a Cobra, and that's where most of the trouble starts anyway. Be careful though, they grip enough to break things up stream pretty easy. Good luck.