One thing to consider about using degreasers as a cleaner for your tires:
Look at your drying towel. Is it black after drying? Where did that come from? What is that "black" if it's not dirt?
Just saying.
Simple Green is a great cleaner/degreaser. We use it to clean our air filters and the rest of the kart. It may or may not be what you want to use on your tires. It WILL pull oil and oil based prep to the surface of your tires - that's what a degreaser is intended to do. 409, Purple Power, Mean Green, etc -- all work the same way. Look in your wash bucket at the end of the night, or that ring of oily goo that's at the water line the next day.
FWIW: I just recommended to a guy over the phone that he use Simple Green on his tires between runs. His track mandates that you run the same tires all night long and are only allowed to wash the tires when you come off of the track. If he builds enough base of prep in his tires during the week, he can keep cleaning that same set all night with SG and keep pulling the oils up to the surface. Now, I'm not sure that the track officials will see SG as a cleaner or prep at that point. That's a discussion they're going to have to have. When mineral spirits looks just like water, good luck trying to tech a no prep rule at the track.
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