Well........that was interesting

I have a 6.50ish race coming up in a couple weeks at my local track. The track is not really a decent radial track, so my plan is to run slicks for the race.

Last night they had a small tire no prep race and grudge racing, $20 for the grudge, as many passes as you want. I already had the slicks on, so I loaded up to make a few hits. The combo that's in the car now has never been on a slick so I needed to do some testing and find some shock settings. The plan was to make some 330' hits to get a good base line and come home.

On the first pass I took a WAG on the shock settings and 14 psi on the slicks, it spun bad and drove left when it hooked, so I coasted through. After changing the shock settings and making an adjustment to the cal trac bars I lowered the tire pressure to 13 1/2 lbs. It hooked and went straight, 1.40 60', but man did it move around, coasted through, 6.86 @ 77 mph. For the third apss the only change was an added 1/2 lb of air pressure to the slicks, it hooked again, 1.44 60', coasting through again, 6.77 @ 82, it still moved around a lot. The last pass the only change was using the trans brake, the car spun then hooked, despite the moving around I ran it out, 6.37 @ 108 with a 1.45 60'.

After having been on radials for several years the slicks were a bit unnerving, I felt like the dog being wagged by the tail. lol