gofast182

I'm just worried about tire temperatures given the weather forecast. Run lower pressure in summer tires? I think a precautionary announcement should be made before we get underway since many of us are on summer rubber.

shamoo

Agreed. My TPMS sensors went off early this week due to the suddenly cold weather we've been having. Need to check pressures on Saturday and reset the TPMS. I should be good to go.

Since the last rally, I got:
Powerchip stage 1 tune
Agency Power exhaust w/connecting pipes
Fabspeed X-pipe with Fabspeed high flow cats

Hopefully my diffuser arrives too so I can have that on too.

MASSIVE REDUCTION IN DRAG COEFFICIENT, y0! +58WHP.

gofast182

Nice, Ahmed!
So is the proper thing to do running less pressure to offset the hardened rubber?

shamoo

Actually no, I'm going to put the pressures back up to normal. They become lower when it's colder.

Is there going to be a meet point in Edison/Route 1 again in the McDonalds parking lot? Anyone else meeting there? What time?

gofast182

Yes, Edison meetup spot like usual Meet at 7:15 roll out at 7:30 sharp.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1075+ROUTE+1...%26&hnear=&z=16

I realize the pressure drops in the cold but the summer rubber also gets very hard and a high(er) pressure will reduce the contact area of hard rubber, no?

shamoo

Perfect! I'll get that location on a couple of other forums for the Central NJ/Southern folks.

I think you're right. If the pressures are higher for the winter, they'd probably be too much for the summer. But in my experience, tires don't really "hold" air that reliably. Once the summer hits, the pressures seem to be fine again. And then next winter, they get worse....if you're still on the same set of tires, which is not usually the case for both our cars haha.

gofast182

Yeah this will be a last hurrah before my car goes away for the winter which is why I don't keep a second set of tires.

Should we roll out before 7:30? I know last rally you and I made amazing time but I wonder if that's cutting it too close? Then again we usually stand around for a while before getting started.

shamoo

Yeah, we usually end up at the Costco parking lot for like an hour before anyone actually starts moving. I guess anytime really is fine for me. If "departure" is at 9am, that means realistically we'd leave at 9:30. If it takes roughly 50 minutes to get there from Edison, we could conceiveably leave at 8:30am even. I dunno. What do you think?

gofast182

OK let's stick with what it is right now. When we're there we can hang a little longer at McDonalds if we want. We were doing 90 the whole way up last time we probably made it in even less than 50 min .

shamoo

Okay cool. 7:15am at the McDonalds. Sweet, I'll let others know.