Thursday, February 5, 2009

Tire data!

Amazing what you can get when you just ask for it. Managed to get free-rolling cornering, and spring-rate data on both a 20 x 7 front and a 22 x 8 rear, as well as some relevant compound information from one of the manufacturers I've been looking at. Excellent!

Unfortunately... the quality of data is not that good. It's a belted bias construction and has some of the same somewhat questionable things I've seen in similar tires (from FSAE). Even contains Pac '96 coefficients, which I may be able to tweak to get to more reasonable values.

Not the best, but it may give some insight for initial mass distribution, alignment, spring and bar rates.

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