Originally Posted by
4bangerhotrod
get rid of the nail head grinder. get a foam 3m pad with the 36 grit sticky back sand paper buff the tires with it then sipe the tire with a regular tire siper with around 4-6 sipes evenly spaced across the block going from right to left on the tire, cutting the sipes around an 1/8in deep. and if your running the same tires all night then lightly buff the LR, RR, RF before the feature just to get to fresh rubber and take off any glaze that may already be there. if your running a faily hard tire on the fronts place 2-4 sipes per block around the tire and a couple sipes across the blocks to help get heat in the front tires, and you could even open your toe out up another 1/4in to help put heat in the front tires. and you may need to place a small groove around the rear tires and cut the blocks in half, use the narrowest blade you have and cut about half the tread depth if its a new tire. and also under caution work the car to keep heat in the tires. theres alot to the science to the tires but if they aint right then your prob lossing around a half sec a lap or more, so it makes all the work worth it to gain that speed and its about the cheapest thing you can do to gain speed all your out is your labor.
thanks,
4bangerhotrod