John:
what exactly are you building?
Russ, #1226B
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From: owner-land-speed@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-land-speed@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of John Beckett
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 7:20 PM
To: ddahlgren@snet.net
Cc: Keith Turk; land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Weight and Balance stuff again
Dave
Guess my fixation with weight is based on my experience driving a few
different cars on the salt over the past thirteen years. Lighter cars are
definably faster, but at the five mile not by much. Moving some offending
parts to distribute weight better is the right answer unless you don't have
enough weight to move.
An ill handling car that makes the driver uncomfortable ain't gonna go fast
no matter how light it is. I also know that if I'm spinning I ain't settin
no records. My personal opinion is that the whole light weight premise works
much better on the short course and at Maxton.
Don't know what the Honda will weigh when finished, but it aint built outa
.083 tubing, so guessing about 2600 lbs. My thought is to have ballast
(maybe 400 lbs.) and rear wing a ready. Get the car to handle first. Then
start decreasing the wing angle and deleting the weight until I hit the
point where it don't handle any more. Then back up a little.
JB
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Dahlgren" <ddahlgren@snet.net>
To: "John Beckett" <saltracer@servusa.com>
Cc: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>; <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 7:45 AM
Subject: Re: Weight and Balance stuff again
> Or you could move the offending part or parts.. What is the fixatation
that the
> needs to be heavy? If you move a part from the rear to the front you get
double
> the benifit. You took off the weight from the heavy end and put it on the
light
> one. So moving 250 lbs has the same effect of adding 500....
>
> I am working on a lto more than a wiring diagram for everyone on this list
and
> it will be too big to send as an e-mail but i will post it on my site
shortly.
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