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Old 04-21-2009, 02:26 PM   #147
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true but the hottest a tire will get is around 300 or so i believe and thats only for a few seconds when your smokin the tires then the cool off quite quickly, so with the spokes of the wheel spining through the air cooling the wheel theres no way a wheel can get nearly as hot as the brakes. if im wrong please take it easy on me lol
Right, that's why I said there are plenty of heat-resistant adhesives; I was suggesting that they'd use that instead of normal wheel weight adhesive tape.
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