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Old 04-03-2012, 07:43 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by CapriRacer View Post
Perhaps this will help:

Barry's Tire Tech
It would be most interesting to see the results of the (not completed) "air or tire" test on the Ford van!

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Not so. I've measured it and the correlation isn't direct.
We don't even have to measure... think of the extremes: a tire with 500 psi and a 500 lb load isn't going to have a one square inch contact patch and a tire with 1 psi isn't going to have 500 square inches on the ground. However, there isn't even a small "zone" where that air/weight/area notion works.
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