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Re: G Loading

To: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>, <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: G Loading
From: "Ed Van Scoy" <lsr128@msn.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 09:35:11 -0700
Maybe you ought to be thinking about a smaller chute if you are pulling 5g's
on a production car.
Ed


> Another interesting sidelight to this chute discussion is how much pull is
> your car going to have on the attaching point.
>
> In my car's case  it has seen a worse case example of 2.3 G's last
year....
> which means that the point at which this thing is actually pullying on the
car
> needs to be strong enough to take many pulls with at least twice that much
> wieght..... 2250lb car.... times 5 g's?   hmmm 10,000lbs of pure tension
> strength?
>
> Keith ( just a thought.... I've seen some folks do this with 5/16 grade 3
> hardware )






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