Your favorite Tire Sauce recipe
#1
Your favorite Tire Sauce recipe
Looking for a good homemade tire sauce. It's getting expensive buying sauce every few weeks for $10-15 a pop.
Our track is damp, red clay. We typically run M4 Primes.
Anyone have a good tire sauce/traction compound recipe you'd be willing to share? FDJ seems to be a popular one at my track and seems to work well, just not sure what it's composed of. Any ideas? Or know of something better?
Basically what makes M4 tires the stickiest? And dries in a decent time? I've tried WD40 and PB Blaster, but they seem to take FOREVER to dry and actually get sticky.
Our track is damp, red clay. We typically run M4 Primes.
Anyone have a good tire sauce/traction compound recipe you'd be willing to share? FDJ seems to be a popular one at my track and seems to work well, just not sure what it's composed of. Any ideas? Or know of something better?
Basically what makes M4 tires the stickiest? And dries in a decent time? I've tried WD40 and PB Blaster, but they seem to take FOREVER to dry and actually get sticky.
#2
Tech Apprentice
liquid wrench is really good
#3
mixing blue liquid wrench and chlorinated brake cleaner. if you can find it. can only get the non-chlorinated stuff here in california. not sure of the preferred mixture so i'll leave that out.
you want this stuff: https://www.zoro.com/crc-brake-parts...Q&gclsrc=aw.ds
i've also heard that the teal colored liquid wrench is basically similar to the above formula (which of course, i can't get the teal stuff, not sure they even make it anymore).
you want this stuff: https://www.zoro.com/crc-brake-parts...Q&gclsrc=aw.ds
i've also heard that the teal colored liquid wrench is basically similar to the above formula (which of course, i can't get the teal stuff, not sure they even make it anymore).
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Sticky Kicks and FDJ are my go to traction compounds.
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Tag body spray
Simple green
Then apply a mix of coleman camp fuel and mineral oil and mineral spirits. (SXT, don't drink it)
Oil of wintergreen in mineral spirits and xylene still rules though, if you want to go through the hassle of mixing it properly. (Trinity buggy grip)
Simple green
Then apply a mix of coleman camp fuel and mineral oil and mineral spirits. (SXT, don't drink it)
Oil of wintergreen in mineral spirits and xylene still rules though, if you want to go through the hassle of mixing it properly. (Trinity buggy grip)
#10
If I sold my tire sauce at the track, I wouldn't even use my real name for racing.
Just because SXT is odorless doesn't mean it's save to huff. I find it odd that people get headaches from Buggy Grip and not SXT. Because they're all pretty nasty, even if your nose doesn't notice them.
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Looking for a good homemade tire sauce. It's getting expensive buying sauce every few weeks for $10-15 a pop.
Our track is damp, red clay. We typically run M4 Primes.
Anyone have a good tire sauce/traction compound recipe you'd be willing to share? FDJ seems to be a popular one at my track and seems to work well, just not sure what it's composed of. Any ideas? Or know of something better?
Basically what makes M4 tires the stickiest? And dries in a decent time? I've tried WD40 and PB Blaster, but they seem to take FOREVER to dry and actually get sticky.
Our track is damp, red clay. We typically run M4 Primes.
Anyone have a good tire sauce/traction compound recipe you'd be willing to share? FDJ seems to be a popular one at my track and seems to work well, just not sure what it's composed of. Any ideas? Or know of something better?
Basically what makes M4 tires the stickiest? And dries in a decent time? I've tried WD40 and PB Blaster, but they seem to take FOREVER to dry and actually get sticky.
Have never found a better suace for Jc golds than blue can LW, dirt cheap also.
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Interesting that m4s are the tire of choice, in my experience clay coumpounds definetly seemed to react better to sauce than m4 or ss. You might try gold dirtweb/smoothys or some mc primes. Dont be discouraged if they dont work right away sometimes they need to scrub in first, you can help that along with a 80grit sanding block.
Have never found a better suace for Jc golds than blue can LW, dirt cheap also.
Have never found a better suace for Jc golds than blue can LW, dirt cheap also.
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#15
Tech Regular
I thought the yellow top lubricant LR was always the LR to use. Never heard of anyone using the penetrating LR