Friday, January 23, 2009

Pulling Tires

There is quite some talk at present about what tire to use in the light
mod
division in Europe.
The popular Firestone 23° 8 ply and 10 ply Pullers are hard
to find since they went out of production, the Firestone HP Puller is
too heavy for a lot of the light mods and needs to be really broken in
to work well.
Due to the involvement of Good Year in the past couple of years, some
light
mod teams have choosen for the 12 ply and 14 ply Good Year Harvest
tourque with results from excellent to average. Now that Good Year had
to pull out of sponsoring (thanks to the screwed up economy) and
Firestone has introduced the "Super All Traction", a couple of teams
are going to give that one a try.
The first sets will be mounted on Mad Max and Road Runner for the
indoor pull at Zwolle tomorrow.
Since I was curious myself how all those different tires look, here a
few pictures:













The old, familiar tread design of the 23° All Traction Firestone, which was also used on the 23° Puller

The Good Year Harvest Tourque (cut for Pulling)
The common Firestone HP Puller
The Firestone "23° Super All Traction"

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