Date:         Mon, 7 Oct 2002 10:19:13 -0700
Reply-To:     Aristotle Sagan <killer_jupiter@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Aristotle Sagan <killer_jupiter@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: High-speed Tires,
              (was Porsches' stupid uninventive vehicle (SUV))
Comments: To: gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM
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Having been to LeMans for the big race (in 1979), watching those gorgeous
Porsches screaming down the Maussaun (SP?) straight, I noticed the exhausts
were RED hot, not the tires.

And yes, they do run 140(mph) alot on the autobahns in Germany. Me myself
use to run 135(kph) on 165/80 15's in my 71 Volvo 144. Sometimes  I wonder
how I survived growing old.

tim in san jose

P.S. It's when they replace your coffee with dried camel dung crystals that
you have to worry.

>
>"However no tire will handle 168mph sppeeds (sic) for long without
>cooking the rubber; the technology for really high-speed street tires
>doesn't exist yet."
> >>>>>>>>>
>
>WHAT?
>Better check your coffee; I think some wiseacre switched it to Dark
>Sparkling Folgers's crystals.
>
>If high speed tires "don't exist", explain the black things attached to
>the wheels at IMSA races (national Gran Prix, 24 hours @ Le Mans)? Or at
>the Indy 500? Or at every rebel-flagged NASCAR race?
>
>Same technology as the flying sleigh that comes around once a year?
>
>These racers routinely hit 180 mph for hours, and are at times in the
>200+ mph range. Tires were not the limiting factor when NASCAR limited
>carburetion to reduce speeds that were creeping up to 230.
>
>Wringing your ideas from life,
>
>G. Matthew Bulley
>Bulley-Hewlett
>Business: www.bulley-hewlett.com
>AIM = IExplain4u
>Phone: +1.919.658.1278




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