Sorry to pick on you twice in a row...
Does everyone know the difference between a man hole cover and a kite?
It only depends on how windy a day it is when you try to fly it...
For all we know at 250 mph your 2600 lb car weighs either 10000 lbs or 200..
No instruments no clue that simple..
With the amount of 'glass missing from the under side of the nose I am
suspecting heavier rather than lighter. But that might only be from the
chute opening as well but until it gets instrumented there is no way to
know.
Dave
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-land-speed@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-land-speed@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Keith Turk
> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 8:08 PM
> To: land-speed@autox.team.net
> Subject: Roadsters Aero issues...
>
>
> you know there are issues that face the roadster crowd that are entirely
> different then cars out there on the edge of speed...
>
> With the extended wheel base and highly aerodynamic profiles
> Streamliners and
> lakesters have a tendency to go straight... they steer that way
> as a function
> of the vehicles body....
>
> Roadsters on the other hand seem to be much more boxy and have much lower
> limits to the aero load then the others... They hit that was
> were traction
> becomes an issue much sooner then other types of vehicles....
>
> I was thinking about the HP requirements in relationship to
> Coeffeicents of
> Drag for each of the styles of cars.. and it kinda hit me that there are
> issues we aren't discussing here.... like how much of a drag race
> is it if you
> can't hook up your car and how much do you care about weight if
> you have more
> then adequate hp to cover it up? Will the aerodynamically challanged car
> always benifet from added weight?
>
> I know that my car is actually rather light at 2600lbs... or at
> least light
> for the experience that I have....
>
> What are you folks thinking?
>
> Keith ( Glen ( insert correct insult for the time of day you read this )
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