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Old 06-12-2025, 06:21 PM   #1
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If you can switch to 16 inch, do so and use a 14 ply tire. the tires I use are like for a logging truck. They?re 100 psi pressure, you have to put in good steel valve stems too. I go for five years and sell them for $200 a set. I haven?t blown a tire in the last 10 years.
Oh yeah, forgot to add: and Slow down! high speeds create lots of heat in the middle of summer on these ever smooth highways
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Old 06-13-2025, 01:15 PM   #2
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Make sure they are heavy duty/high pressure rated metal valve stems.

Standard rubber passenger tire valve stems will not hold up.

Ruined two NEW tires on a Ford Excusion after the installer put in regular stems before I realized the issue.
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Old 06-25-2025, 03:47 PM   #3
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No pics this time around because I've been traveling alone for the most part and just don't think to take any.

Still grinding but still quiet. Took my stuff up to Roxboro a few weeks ago and didn't have any luck. The car was ok but the driver was struggling. I started the day completely lost on the tree, anywhere from -.020 to .050 in the first 4 hits or so. Girlfriend called for an update where I explained it was getting ugly in a hurry. She gave me a little pep-talk and I ended up making a semi-final appearance in 6.0 index after bulbs of .006, .008, and .015. Unfortunately at 3 cars I lost .02 to 60ft and couldn't run the number. Had my man up front 15 to his 30, but ran 2 above wide open, he lands dead 3 and I'm .007 behind.

This past weekend I took my stuff locally to Shadyside to run their 6.0 index race and had similar results. Letting go great, 12, 13, and 19 in my first 3 hits between qualifying and first round, but lost focus pretty badly and let the tree go by me 2nd round. Let it go .053 and got locked out unsurprisingly. Gotta say that's fairly out of character for me, still not sure what happened. The most frustrating part about it was that I had the car to beat. On spray, the car moved .005 to half track in those 4 hits, which is unbelievably good for my equipment, but I fell out of the seat and let it down. I was disgusted with myself and very frustrated. Happy for my dad though, he picked up the win in the index class and is not 3 for 3 on the year at Shadyside and the points leader even after missing the first race.

So it's back to the drawing board. Gotta say I know I still have a lot of good racing left in the tank this year, but it's getting harder and harder to convince myself I do. What's weird is I swear I'm turning loose and driving as good as I ever have, but just have absolutely nothing to show for it, which is very disheartening. I may go back in my log book to last year and see if I can figure out what I'm doing differently. Maybe I'm not driving as good as I think I am. The car has definitely given me the weenie on several occasions this year which hasn't helped, but I feel I can still overcome a mediocre car, just like I always have.

Anyway, pity party over. Just needed to get that out of my system. I'm going to try to slip down to SGMP this weekend for a big 1/4 mile index race where I'll run 10.50 and 11.50 index. I hope it will pay decently well and have, perhaps, a bit softer competition. Only one way to find out.

Oh, and I blew another tire on the way home from Roxboro, bringing my season total of tire mishaps to 6.
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Dawson in the heat 65 mph max. We did switch to 16 inch 14 ply like Keith did, then we slowed down from 80 to 65 problem went away LOL
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Dawson in the heat 65 mph max. We did switch to 16 inch 14 ply like Keith did, then we slowed down from 80 to 65 problem went away LOL
I'm not exactly setting land speed records as it is. I usually set the cruise in my truck at 69-71 because that's where the diesel engine is happiest. Also, I never blow the tires in the heat of the day, always at night near the end of the drive. I blew the tire coming home from Roxboro at 11pm and the one before that coming home from SGMP at 1am.
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Also, in the spirit of the build section, I've been doing a moderate amount f work to my cars. This week I did a quick oil change on my Mazda at it was nearing it's run limit as well as lashed valves and remounted and rotated the rear tires. When I mounted the tires a few months ago, I only put wheel screws on the outside bead of the tire, but noticed that they had all started to loosen and get pulled all the tire's rotation. I dismounted the tires, remounted and balanced them, and put screws in both beads. I don't think it was causing any issues but I wanted to correct it just in case it was.

When doing the oil change, I noticed that the alternator pulley was busy sawing my lower radiator hose in half and was about to become a BIG issue. I took it off and went to the auto parts store in search of a close replacement, or at least something I could hack up and make work. That was fun lol. They let me go through there entire catalogue of fitted hoses to find one that I could make work. It took about an hour of searching, but I did eventually find one I could cut the ends off of and make work.

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Well I made my last trip with my enclosed trailer last weekend down to SGMP for the big outlaw quarter mile index race. I ran 10.50 and 11.50 index, won 2nd round in both classes, and then it rained it out. Ended up getting a decent lump of cash after they split all the money up so I'm not too bothered about it.

I listed my trailer for sale and sold it yesterday, so I have no trailer to race out of for the foreseeable future. I was tired of it eating tires over and over, so I just got rid of it all together. I think the axles were messed up on it to be honest, the tires were consistently overheating and getting out of round. Not to mention it was ugly and the tail lights didn't work. I also never tagged or insured it the entire time I had it, so I'm happy to be starting over. Sold it to a guy who needed to haul lawn mowers around, at this point I think it's better suited for that.

So if anybody has a beat on a cheap 24 ft enclosed trailer with 5k axles, let a guy know. I spoke with Michael Scott of Right trailers while we were at SGMP last Saturday and he could build me a bare bones new one fairly cheaply but I'd have to run his sticker, which I don't really want to do. I'm not above it, I just don't want to
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