Running Federal 595 RS-R in opposite direction

ljs18 · Postby **ljs18** » Thu Sep 05, 2013 8:46 pm

Has anyone run Federal 595 in opposite direction? Any problems?
Thanks

Postby **NitroDann** » Thu Sep 05, 2013 9:00 pm

They won't work at all whatsoever in standing water.

Dann

Juicy HiC · Postby **Juicy HiC** » Thu Sep 05, 2013 9:24 pm

ljs18 · Postby **ljs18** » Thu Sep 05, 2013 9:45 pm

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.
Thanks

MINX · Postby **MINX** » Thu Sep 05, 2013 10:17 pm

ljs18

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.

Stu

deviant · Postby **deviant** » Thu Sep 05, 2013 10:42 pm

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.

corners · Postby **corners** » Fri Sep 06, 2013 2:24 pm

MINX wrote:I didnt crash and die once.

project.r.racing · Postby **project.r.racing** » Sat Sep 07, 2013 8:23 am

corners wrote:
MINX wrote:I didnt crash and die once.

Yeah. If you die twice, that's when the problems really start. :lol:

ljs18 · Postby **ljs18** » Sun Sep 08, 2013 9:50 am

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.

project.r.racing · Postby **project.r.racing** » Sun Sep 08, 2013 12:33 pm

so only run the rears in opposite dirction?

ljs18 · Postby **ljs18** » Sun Sep 08, 2013 12:58 pm

project.r.racing wrote:so only run the rears in opposite dirction?

Might try that on a midweek sprint.

zero00 · Postby **zero00** » Sun Sep 08, 2013 5:24 pm

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'