Snake Oil

I have 3 sets of used R compound tyres all at least 2 years old with about half tread depth. Too good to just throw them out but not really in satisfactory condition for track use. These have gone hard enough that you couldn't leave a finger nail mark on them without breaking your finger in the process.

As an experiment, I picked up a 1L bottle of GRIP tyre softener from Revolution Racegear and applied it to a set of Dunlop DZ03G's I used at the last NoLimit sprint. I'll use the same set again at the sprint next week.

Snake Oil

This softener is suppose to lower the durometer figure by 20, I think this is equivalent of the difference between streets and r-comps. But I wouldn't get too excited with any quoted figures off the bottle label yet.

Gave up on scraping...too hard

Application is relatively easy, just scrape off any rubber pickup on the tyres and brush several coats of the blue liquid on and let it soak and do its magic over 4-5 days...longer for old tyres. I plan to give them 6 coats over 2 days and let it sit for a week before the sprint day.

Just brush it on!

I'm not expecting any miracles, but after just 1 coat I could feel the rubber surface soften up already. It'll be interesting to see how this changes in a couple of days time when the liquid works its way deeper into the rubber.

Tyres soaking

So we wait and see for now, will report back in a week.