Saturday in Pics

[Tekknikal]

Soooo thinking I'd give the new G owner - whoever they are- a head start I picked up a new set of rear tires. I was going to hold off on mounting them but when I saw the condition and had the time, I figured I'd do it this weekend.

As noted in my for sale thread I always go to Kahn at Emerald K Tires for my tire mounting/balancing needs. Kahn personally takes care of me...very cool guy, knows what he's doing, uses his judgment/experience to do whats best. Just what I need for the G.

Anyway, I was going to do a full writeup on this .. but didn't take all the pics I should have. If you've never seen it done before though, you'll get the idea...

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breaking the old michelin ps2s off the wheel

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old tire off, new tire going on...

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then balancing. the balancer spins the wheel, sees vibration and calculates the amount and placement of weights necessary to cancel the vibration. you can see that on the inner/outer display

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also in the process, not pictured, is that the valve stem must be removed. it contains the tire pressure monitoring sensor. it is then reinstalled into the new tire after the tire is temporarily mounted (before its inflated). the sensor can be damaged if you forget about it. its also important to remember which sensor goes on which wheel - the car will remember that and will trigger a low tire pressure warning light if it cant find the sensor where it last was...

[Tekknikal]

last night was also a track night.... so off I went to bring you guys some coverage.

but when I got there, there were only a dozen or so cars between the staging area and the racers parking area. :ugh: by my count there might have been 40-50 people. Apparently power was out earlier and a number of people left... but when I passed by earlier there weren't that many so I dont know...

all told there were six race cars and they did a little bracket race tournament. not many people ever showed though, at least by 11pm. here are some pics...

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and that was it.... they say next race day is july 4 weekend. still no word on what happened Wednesday...i heard rumors pointing toward the same thing...but dont know the story for sure. they're saying that on the next race day, cars will be searched though, so be on the lookout for that...

[twincityfinest]

good snaps tekk....

[StreetRX7]

hey tekk clean those rims bro.. lol... khan is a kool guy i knew him yrs... racing back in the days..

[1SICKLEX]

Big ups to Kahn "EMERALD K TIRES" ;)!