My understanding was that your car had been running as a race car for some
time. What was the experience with others who have driven that car? Have
there been handling problems at speed? What were the problems with it
before you acquired it?
You may want to talk to the owner of Flatfire. When he sold the car several
years ago it was set up with the weight in a radically different location
and ended up in a ball. They rebuilt the car with the weight in the
original location ... no reported problems.
That aero testing on the track seems to me to be more trustworthy than
speculation for a specific, proven car ... but what do I know?
Wes
on 7/17/03 6:28 AM, Dave Dahlgren at ddahlgren@snet.net wrote:
> Then you will be able to say 'Hey it's not very big but at least it is heavy'
> LOL.. That's thinking inside the box..Nothing like having a car with an
> aluminum
> engine to save weight and a ton of pig iron in it's belly.. LOL
> Is this like having 'tons of fun' ??
> Dave
>
> Keith Turk wrote:
>>
>> Had an interesting Chat with Ron Benham last night on the subject of
>> weight and scaling a car... His thoughts were to run 65% of the weight in
>> the
>> back of the car.... and looks to me like he accomplished that.... whew...
>> These aren't my thoughts just his.... so rather then subtract the all the
>> ballast from the rear I'm just going to take a bit of it out and move it to
>> the front and then add some more to the front to get as close to 51 on the
>> nose as I can get...
>>
>> I just thought I would share his point of view.... it was radically different
>> from my experience and the suggestions from the list...
>>
>> Keith
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