<VV> One More Tire Thing

[Kenneth E Pepke]

Are you willing to put in a little extra effort for your new tires?

Put an old set of tires and wheels on your Corvair then take
the wheels you will be using to the tire store.  Have them 
mount the new tires then take them home and stack them
up in the corner for a few weeks.  Then take them back to
the tire store for balancing and mounting on the car.  This
is not that inconvenient if you get the tires during the winter
lay up time.

Of course radial tires are never going to work out as well
as they could if they are on a Corvair.  To get the best 
performance one would have to follow the lead of the car
manufacturers and 'radial tune' the Corvair's suspension.  
Hey, well worth the effort if one has interest in performance.
And, it will end those pesky specific speed harmonics.
Ken P

On Fri, 29 May 2009 13:14:20 -0700 Chris & Bill Strickland
<lechevrier at earthlink.net> writes:
> Should have included this in prior post --
> 
> Some rims are susceptible to tire "slippage" -- the tire turning on 
> the 
> rim after they are mounted -- and I'm not talking about drag racing 
> here, where tires are commonly screwed to the rims.  Some rims, 
> especially if they are powder coated, chromed, or "mags", are slick 
> enough that the tire turns on the wheel, and if it does this, the 
> fanciest balance job just got invalidated,  Some folks will make a 
> chalk 
> mark on the tire where the valve stem is, others just always mount 
> the 
> tire with something (say the date code -- generally tire pros will 
> put 
> this on the inside, but you could have it near the valve to help 
> keep an 
> eye on how old those tires are) that coincides with the rim, again, 
> like 
> the valve stem.
> 
> And collectable cars often have "nice" wheels ...
> 
> Bill Strickland
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