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I agree about an onboard setup being a bit drastic for most applications, JR!
Tire temps will certainly tell you if your setup is out to lunch, but when you are pretty close, they don't always help you too much. Here is a stroy that illustrates why it may be useless to worry about a discrepancy of a few degrees...
I helped out at a NASCAR team test once where they had one of the tires instrumented with infrared on the track (low budget team, couldn't do all 4 at once!!). Like normal, I measured the tires after the car came off the track, including the tire that was insrumented. The inside was about 6F cooler than the peak we had seen ~25 seconds earlier on the track, while the outside was about 16F cooler than it's max (probably due to not rolling on the outside portion of the tire as the car was eased down from speed and into the pits).
Last edited by shiny side up!; 4 Mar 2003 at 15:45.
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