This is my first post in the drag racing forum, so please be gentle.

Is there any such thing as a "temporary slick" spray that you spray on your tires to fill in all of the grooves when you want to take your daily driver to the drag strip?

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Interesting idea But I dont think so.

 

By the way I did search first, but this is all I found

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=387125

They are just talking about sticky stuff. I'm thinking of something different. It would be like real soft rubber, but stiff enough so that it would bond to your tires and not just burn off. Maybe it could be made out of something that could be removed later with some sort of spray on solvent. Of course you couldn't use anything that would damage the tire.

One of the most frustrating things about building a really powerful street car is that the street legal tires really limit what you can do at the strip.

 

What you are looking for i dont believe would help because of the surface area of the contact patch of the tire is mainly the tread...just guessing i would say that 75% of the contact patch is tread and the rest is grooves...street tires have a harder compound for tread wear reasons...filling in the grooves with some sort of substance wouldnt help much..things like...how would you remove it and would it be able to stick to the tire while doing 100+ mph are questions that I think why there might not be something for it. The VHT sprayed on the track is crazy sticky anyways..if you get a chance...dip your finger in the stuff..lol

 

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Is there any such thing as a "temporary slick" spray that you spray on your tires to fill in all of the grooves when you want to take your daily driver to the drag strip?

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Hi fredtoast; Sorry No go.

John@M&h-Hashims

 

M&H slicks all the way! it would be a lot easier to switch wheels / tires at the track than pick "tar" out of your tires for months

 

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It would be easier, but I'm thinking about cheaper. There are a lot of guys with modified cars that want to see what kind of times they can pull in the 1/4. Most of them don't plan on drag racing on a regular basis. The problem is that tons of power don't mean **** if you're running street tires.

I've heard of the sticky stuff before. It seems to me that it would burn off pretty quickly unless it actually penetrated the rubber, and if it does that I would be afraid that it would ruin my tires.

So basically I was just tossing out an idea I had. I'm also thinking that there should be some cheap way to convert worn out tires into pseudo-slicks. I'm sure someone has thought of this before, but technology just keeps advancing.

Or maybe I could just start a rent-a-slick business. Get a truckload of slicks on various standard size wheels and rent them out for one night only at these street shootout type events. Or does somebody already do this?