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Look at that max load number on the sidewall, Mike. If your wider, lower-profile tires are rated to carry more weight, you might do well to drop the pressure a bit as compared to the tall skinnies (or whatever you're replacing).

Really, you should be able to feel it when it's too much: it'll ride like a buckboard AND handling will be worse.

If you're at the track (or Danny) you want to increase that buckboard effect only until you crest the point of diminishing returns on the skidpad. If you're like the rest of us you'll want to decrease the buckboard effect just until the car starts to squeal when you're accelerating around a traffic circle (as one does), then add about two-three pounds.

The chalk-across-the-treads method is more for Danny driving but it will tell you for sure if you're too low.

Front to back pressure should be close to the front-to-back weight distribution, which I think in speedsters is about 40-60.

And by the way... the only guys left on this board who are likely to wear out a set of Speedster tires are Jack Crosby and Jim Ignacio. So, really...just don't ride the rims, boys. It makes the rest of us look bad.

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