Has anyone run Federal 595 in opposite direction? Any problems?
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Running Federal 595 RS-R in opposite direction
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Re: Running Federal 595 RS-R in opposite direction
They won't work at all whatsoever in standing water.
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Re: Running Federal 595 RS-R in opposite direction
I would not run them in the wet as the water channelling properties of a directional tyre are lost. However QR and Lakeside are clockwise an I thought to give the outer edge of the inner tyres a scrub before I get them turned on the rim. The weather looks fine for the weekend. I run 3degrees of negative camber front and rear and still wear the outside of the tyres.
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Re: Running Federal 595 RS-R in opposite direction
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I assume they would respond similarly to my Hankook RS-3s
I recently ran them at Lakeside - 'backwards', in the dry.
No problem at all.
First lap and a half after running them the correct way for 18mths, they were a bit rumbly, like they had a bit of pick up.
After that they came good and I ran PB laps in 63s at LS.
I didnt crash and die once.
Mine were suffering from too many right hand turns.
I will be running them 'backwards' at QR on Monday aswell. Assuming dry conditions.
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I assume they would respond similarly to my Hankook RS-3s
I recently ran them at Lakeside - 'backwards', in the dry.
No problem at all.
First lap and a half after running them the correct way for 18mths, they were a bit rumbly, like they had a bit of pick up.
After that they came good and I ran PB laps in 63s at LS.
I didnt crash and die once.
Mine were suffering from too many right hand turns.
I will be running them 'backwards' at QR on Monday aswell. Assuming dry conditions.
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Re: Running Federal 595 RS-R in opposite direction
The tread pattern is designed to force water away from the centre of the tyre and 'squirt' it out of the sides so don't run them in the wet.
Dry track use...go for it.
Dry track use...go for it.
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Re: Running Federal 595 RS-R in opposite direction
MINX wrote:I didnt crash and die once.
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Re: Running Federal 595 RS-R in opposite direction
Yeah. If you die twice, that's when the problems really start.corners wrote:MINX wrote:I didnt crash and die once.
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Re: Running Federal 595 RS-R in opposite direction
Good news is that I didn't crash and die once. Bad news is that the car was very unsettled under brakes, 2secs down in lap times. So from my experience it doesn't work with 595s.
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Re: Running Federal 595 RS-R in opposite direction
so only run the rears in opposite dirction?
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Re: Running Federal 595 RS-R in opposite direction
project.r.racing wrote:so only run the rears in opposite dirction?
Might try that on a midweek sprint.
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Re: Running Federal 595 RS-R in opposite direction
ljs18 wrote:Good news is that I didn't crash and die once. Bad news is that the car was very unsettled under brakes, 2secs down in lap times. So from my experience it doesn't work with 595s.
As your times would be if they were in the morning!! 38 cars in ONE group? QR has an IT issue so Natsoft hasn't been updated
If it was in the Sprints in the afternoon then hmmmm .. back to 'Plan A'
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