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Oct 14, 2015 | 09:29 PM

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Needling Street Radials

So I'm just curious if anyone has ever experimented with needling a street radial?
I'm wondering if it would be beneficial in anyway? I have some cheap tires that are reallyyyy hard. Wondering what would happen if I took the needled to em

Oct 15, 2015 | 12:08 AM

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Well I'll take that as a no...
Didn't think it was that bad of an idea

Oct 19, 2015 | 10:36 AM

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What?

Oct 25, 2015 | 04:51 PM

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Isn't "needling" used just for dirt oval track tires??

Oct 26, 2015 | 03:56 PM

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I don't have any experience messing with street tire tread and i'm all for experiments. I would just see what happens? Lay the power on little by little and be careful in corners.
My only real hesitation is the tires chunking under extreme friction (burn out, launch, corners, braking..etc)
What tool(s) are you using?

Nov 10, 2015 | 11:33 AM

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I honestly was just sitting there looking at tires and seeing maybe if anyone had tried it! I think it would definitely be interesting to see the results!
Definitely wouldn't sipe or anything.

Nov 10, 2015 | 01:41 PM

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well if your not gonna sipe them chunking probably wont happen. I say go for it and report back! i'd like to see what the result would be as well.

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Nov 11, 2015 | 10:55 AM

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I sure wish I hadn't put the car away for winter already! I was going to do it to the shitty sumitomos I had on my zr1s. Maybe once springs rolls around..

Nov 17, 2015 | 04:19 PM

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Theyre gonna act exactly the same, except have a bunch of holes in em

Nov 17, 2015 | 07:07 PM

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You seem pretty confident in that answer

Nov 18, 2015 | 07:59 PM

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Because it's a dumb idea, no offense.

Nov 19, 2015 | 11:45 AM

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No offense taken. What makes you the expert on shitty tires guy?

Nov 19, 2015 | 08:08 PM

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Needling tires is an oval dirt track thing. Helps put heat in the tires and helps the tires soak up traction compound, which they typically use lots of. Probably a bad idea for street tires. You will most likely lose grip because you are breaking up tread blocks, the tread will squirm around more giving a poorer road feel, and the tires will overheat easier due to the tread blocks squirming around more.