My tires make plenty of noise before before losing traction, and most others that I've owned do the same. The Firehawk SZ50/EP's I had were the exception, though. They would barely make noise no matter what I did (even if I went WAY over the limit), but I could feel when I was actually approaching the limit so it didn't matter.
Originally Posted by DakarM
also the AC advice still stands. why? because in an autox rarely are you at full throttle for more than a second or two. Even in a relatively long course you wont be full throttle for more than say 3-4 seconds and that would be a very long straight.
Maybe I just don't understand what you are saying.... if you aren't using full throttle (and are therefore making some amount of power substantially below full engine output), why would it matter if you have accessories running or not, considering you could just push the gas a little more and get the same part-throttle engine output as you could without AC running?