Treating tires

**dpeach** · 09-30-2009, 01:19 PM

Anyone ever treated there tires? I'm involved in karting and when we used to run the harder tires, we would use a product called Gecker to treat our tires and make them softer. It helped a lot with grip, the obvious downside being that the tires wore faster

Anyone ever run a liquid treatment over the tires before they went to the track?

I'm planning on doing this tonight before i go out on the track.. Hopefully ill see some improvement in traction. I'm just running cheap sumitomos right now hoping to get more grip.

**blackcar** · 09-30-2009, 01:31 PM

never done it.

let us know how it works.

**bigrondownhiller** · 09-30-2009, 01:57 PM

They have vht track bite that is supposed to help. Try without anything and see how that goes first. Too much traction with a stock rear can cause problems.

**dpeach** · 09-30-2009, 07:28 PM

ive been having problems not getting traction, thats why i tried this gecker on my tires. I dont think it really helped. i put on one coat and im pretty sure what sunk into it probably got burnt off by the burnout.

As far as track times by the end of the night i finally broke into the 12's!!!! a 12.994

60 ft....2.162
1/8....8.466
1/4...12.94
mph....108.29

Still squealed out of the hole but it hooked a lot better after a long burnout.