Thread: Street tires at the track

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Street tires have a different compound than slicks and will not get sticky on a burnout. Do a little dry hop and call it good. Stay out of the water box. You'll sling water up in the wheel wells and then it will drop out onto the starting line and the starter will be pi**ed. Before you go on your trip, locate a stretch of road where you can do maybe a couple hundred feet launch and power run. Go to the grocery and get a container of white tennis shoe polish. Go to your stretch of road and paint a stripe across the tread of each rear tire about 3 inches wide. Let it dry, do your run, then stop and examine the stripe on each tire. If more of the polish is worn off in the middle of the tread, tire pressure is too high. If it's worn off at the edges, tire pressure is too low. Experiment with this until you get even wear all the way across the tread. Record the pressure of each tire at that point and keep it in the car with you. Then, just before you do the dragstrip thing, adjust tire pressure to what you have recorded. That'll be as good as it gets.