Tyre Pressure Monitoring

[RacingPete]

As a usual solo racer at track meetings (I mean I support myself and not I am the only one on track ) I have been looking at tyre pressure monitoring as getting the tyre pressures correct on track is key. So I spotted this on a recent email from Demon today:

Tyre Pressure Thing

Looks quite good, and feedback in the car too while racing would be useful.

Though my questions would be how reliable the system is, if they could fall off easily, if they are actually legal?

Anyone have any experience of them?

[thunderbelmont]

While they do work well, expect them to get trashed by tyre fitters using tyre levers.

They're quite accurate, and you get real-time figures, providing you can communicate the figures back to your pit crew "as they happen".

Best price (retail) I've seen for this unit though. Well done DT, not the usual mail-order mugging from them!

Stack's SAW system is accurate, can interface with their telemetry / logger, so you can record it. but it co$t$ ca$h.

You get what you pay for.

Rob.

[RacingPete]

How do they fit to the wheel/tyre to measure the pressure?

[System-G]

When you get new tyres fitted, you'll need to give the fitter the valves from the kit to use in place of regular valves.

They're a nice idea, but you still have to get out the car to adjust pressures (or enlist the help of someone), so you gotta ask yourself is it really worthwhile?

[CNHSS1]

TRC Track and Race Car magazine did a couple of page write up on them in last few months if i recall correctly. might be worth finding a copy

[RacingPete]

CNHSS1 said:

TRC Track and Race Car magazine did a couple of page write up on them in last few months if i recall correctly. might be worth finding a copy

Will hunt one down.. cheers, RP

[andy rob]

I'm thinking about buying a set,I think you've got to remove the tyres to fit them ?
but you will have to use the same 4 wheel all the time or swaps tyres about ? not ideal if your leaving it to the last minute to decide on what rubber to run.
or spend lots of £££ & have them on every set of wheel you own & few diplays in the car so it look like the starship enterprise
anybody tried them ?

Edited by andy rob on Thursday 18th December 23:17

Edited by andy rob on Thursday 18th December 23:18

[BenElliottRacing]

Have been in a couple of cars with these fitted.

seem to work pretty well. only gripe was that you can't set the low pressure alarm to less than 20psi. one of the cars I was in used to drop below this when the tyres cooled. the beeping for the first 2 laps of each session was a bit annoying.

[houlbt]

Y, we have them in our cars... useful piece of kit and pretty reasonable.

www.bmsport.com (who look after my car) were the suppliers of mine and I'm pretty sure they were cheaper than DT.

Edited by houlbt on Monday 22 December 08:48

[bmsport.com]

We run these units in our race cars, if you run wet and dry tyre sets then its best to buy 2 units. You just velcro them to the dash, so its an easy swap over, no need to look like a Star Trek vessel, unless you want to ;-)

Nigel

[James Cawte]

Contact Pi Research (01954 253600) as they have been selling a tyre pressure monitoring system that in non-intrusive and simply screws on to the top of the valve, (replaces the valve cap) and transmits back to a data logger. It's fairly cheap too I seem to remember.

[fergus]

AIM also do a system for karts which is suitable for car use