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Tyre temperatures - effects from pressure
Posted by 'Polo1272' on 04 Mar 2009 @ 21:58

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Right I'm getting myself a little confused at the moment and wondered if some one could help set things straight.

I'm currently studying motorsport engineering at university and for my dissertation i have had to design the steering system for our Formula Student car. As such i've spent the majority of the last six months trawling through far too much tyre data, journals on tyres etc etc to help produce a more thorough design of the steering.

One thing i have noticed is the difference between kart tyres and seemingly all other tyres in the way they respond to changes in pressure. Now i have been told that to generate more heat in a kart tyre you'd be looking to increase the pressures. is this correct??

However, it seems to be the other way around for other tyres i.e. to generate more heat you'd be looking to reduce pressures (amonst many other variables that could be changed)

Could anyone explain the reason as to why kart tyres work differently?? Am i missing something obvious? My initial suspicion is that it is something to do with kart tyres being significantly smaller than most others...

Thanks,
Andy

ps in case it sounds like it im not trying to wangle any free information for my dissertation!! i'd just simply like to have a better understanding as to what im doing and when i make changes to the tyre pressures on my kart

pps i've been too lazy to use the search button on this one so if it has been discussed before just say so and i'll do a search for it

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Tyre temperatures - effects from pressure by 'Polo1272' << You are here!

Re: Tyre temperatures - effects from pressure by 'davidmc' (04 Mar 2009 @ 22:22)

Re: Tyre temperatures - effects from pressure by 'John' (04 Mar 2009 @ 23:25)

Re: Tyre temperatures - effects from pressure by 'Polo1272' (05 Mar 2009 @ 1:05)

Re: Tyre temperatures - effects from pressure by 'PaulMRotax' (05 Mar 2009 @ 8:08)

Re: Tyre temperatures - effects from pressure by 'PaulMRotax' (05 Mar 2009 @ 8:14)

Re: Tyre temperatures - effects from pressure by 'SimonS' (06 Mar 2009 @ 11:53)

Re: Tyre temperatures - effects from pressure by 'sdminus' (06 Mar 2009 @ 19:24)

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