Sounds great, thanks!

Can you be any more specific? Better yet any pics of how you had them siped? I now run radial swampers and if I'm not happy with their snow performance, I want to get them siped...

I just E-mailed you a photo. I dont have a way to upload it.

Mike

I got it, thanks again! I'll chop it down a little and put it up here...

For all those that want to see it:

Looks badass.

looks better than the job I got.

So, how exactly do they sipe tires.  I realize sipes are cuts in the tread blocks, but isn't it more than just taking a knife and cutting through the block?

Cwkick

i think that's pretty much it

tires stores can have siping machines
essentially the same just using a saw and cutting at every interval you'd like like 3/8" for instance and how wide you want it

for myself i'd only sipe the center blocks and just run low tread
if you cut the shoulders, you could rip chunks out while crawling

waking up an old thread here.....  anybody ever do this themselves at home?  i've called a couple tire shops in my area and they have no idea what i'm talking about...  at all..  any thoughts or experiences would be appreciated, thanks.  i dunno what kinda cutting tool will work best on my swampers.

http://www.sipers.com/sipers/index_large.asp



You can use a heat knife to do it yourself, it just takes a while.  One of the other Zuki's in my club siped his swampers without a problem.

4x4 Wire Guide to Siping your own tires.

you can sipe Swampers with a utility knife, no problem.

You can even cut grooves with a utiliy, it's hard to get them uniform, but you can do it.

As far as basic sipes,   a utility blade, cut down to the EXACT depth you want to sipe, works fine.

I have run alot of tires o my Jeeps and such. IMHO, BFG AT TA/KO's are the best winter/all around tire made.  But since we're talkin mud tires...I like the Superswamper TSL SSR's. They are siped from the factory, and wear very well. Pricey, but woth the money. I'm running them on my Tracker right now.

Here's a review page:

http://www.off-road.com/suzuki/reviews/interco.htm