Keith
Maybe it's a carryover habit from his roadster days, but Al had lead in
the rear of his liner. In the mid 80s when he tried Arfron's 600 mph tires,
he said he broke traction and started skating around at about 370. Makes me
pucker just thinking about that.
Adding weight is about all you can do with a gas or street roadster to
gain traction. Bill Templeton tried wide tires on his roadster and slowed
down so he put skinnys back on. I'm not sure that wides don't plane on air
at high speed if you can't load them enough ( at least on a roadster where
they're in the air). Kind of hard to put a lot of power down through a small
footprint without much weight.
Ron Gibson Omaha NE
----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
To: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 7:07 PM
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....
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