I agree and that is why we are going to take a second deck lid with a Wing
that meets the requirements as well as allows the air to close a little
later behind the car...
it has to be adjustable.... I think. to allow for the minimum settings...
We learned a good bit this weekend about driving the car with some info we
downloaded after the passes.. I was a little to hard on the throttle during
our first meet with the Motor and Brad was a little soft....This meet we
were much better... though his shifts still took
The Salt is going to require a ton of finesse... I can see that already...
but we still have to put the power down....
Speaking of Spinning... I suppose I ought to consider a track bar to aid in
locating the rear end and body... as a helper... in the event of a spin...
Keith
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> From: dahlgren <dahlgren@uconect.net>
> To: Keith Turk <kturk@ala.net>
> Subject: Re: Horsepower and Wings
> Date: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 1:49 PM
>
> A wing can be adjusted to give a lot or almost no down force and the
> drag at the low settings is very slight. it also does not add very much
> drag until you are going very fast. ballast hurts you every where. It
> takes more time and distance to get moving and adds a lot of rolling
> resistance. At least my way of looking at it.. At 1600 lbs and 425 hp
> traction has been no problem with no wing so far it all depends on how
> YOU drive it....
> Dave Dahlgren
>
> Keith Turk wrote:
> >
> > I was talking with Darrell off line here a bit ago and a thought came
to my
> > mind.....
> >
> > I am dead set against running a wing on my car if I can get away with
it...
> > (based on stability at speed)
> >
> > anykind of aerodynamic tool which Produces downforce also produces
drag...
> > and to move drag takes HP...
> >
> > I heard a comment here a couple of weeks ago about us having more HP
then
> > the traction allows... is this the case out there for most of you?
> >
> > Keith Turk
> > Austin Healey 100, Bugeye, Box sprites, Bonneville Camaro ( Land Speed
> > Racer)
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