Apply to the tires two days before the race.Take a gallon of WD40 and soak the tires directly in this. During the polymerisation of butadiene, the butadiene can polymerise either 1,4 or 1,2; increasing the proportion of the 1,2 polymer increases the softness of the tyre.

Be sure to create mixture in a well-ventilated area. I'd think just about anything would, but how could it possibly be difficult to detect? someone told me simple green will soften a tire. I don’t do voodoo and tire prep seems like voodoo.

They don't soften tires any more than a tire would soften by itself when it gets hot during the race. It is an ingredient is some paint strippers.

A lot of suggestions for wintergreen oil. I'm not a chemist (just a physics guy), but it seems like there are plenty of volatiles in the mx which you could easily detect with mass spec or other means. With tire treatments, most home brews are some organic solvents like toluene/acetone/mineral spirits or even WD40 or PB Blaster (rust penetrator) if there's no sniff testing involved with their parc ferme inspections.

It will only soften them slightly but does help the tires retain the grip on the track.Mix equal parts xylene and toluene and mix together. Soak the tires in water first. Bleach softens tires well. There is nothing I see on the MSDS that would suggest that, but then I don’t know much at all on the chemistry. In this article we provide some practical ways to soften tires.One way to soften tires is to use kerosene. Warmers allow you to go all out from the start without having to heat up tires by making a few slow laps. According to a random patent (Ryoji Kojima, "Rubber composition for winter tire, and winter tire, US Patent #20130030111 A1") found online "The present invention relates to a rubber composition for a winter tire which contains predetermined amounts of natural rubber, butadiene rubber, aromatic oil, silica, and carbon black, and also contains a specific silane coupling agent that includes a linking unit A represented by the following formula (1) and a linking unit B represented by the following formula (2) and has a predetermined content of the linking unit B." Adjust the amount depending upon the number and size of the tires you are treating. Step 2 Mix equal amounts of the acetone, transmission fluid and mineral spirits in the container.

This can be done at the track and brings about the quickest results.This article was written by the It Still Works team, copy edited and fact checked through a multi-point auditing system, in efforts to ensure our readers only receive the best information. I know nothing about car racing, but in Canada these days most people switch their tire type from a nominal "all-season" radial to a "winter tire" when winter approacheth (i.e. Never heard of anyone in Canada sloshing that on their tires just before the first snowfall, though.Continuing from Michael Bradley's post. Using a paint roller, apply the mixture to the tire as if you were painting a wall. Tires can be hard and dry, decreasing their ability to grip the road or track.

Many organic solvents will soften one or more of the rubbers found in typical tires. Next take the rags soaked in kerosene and wrap them around the tires. yesterday, in Saskatchewan). I've always wondered what was in them, but a quick search yields zero MSDS which is very surprising and honestly.I'm sure the manufacturers of chemical tire softeners would NEVER lie about their detectability.A comment from Canada. Thanks to a random clicking, I noticed