Ed,
About 20-30 years ago an East Coast Modified series banned chrome moly
in the front clip because it either did not give, causing severe
injury/death
to the driver or it broke, causing severe injury/death to the driver.
For safety reasons I think deformable steel should be forward of the front
wheels and aft of the rear wheels. No, no, no, not a new rule -- just a
suggestion.
Bryan
Ed Weldon wrote:
> Chrome-moly for chassis construction scares the BG's out of me. Way too
> many variables for any kind of cutting edge racing application unless you've
> got some pretty experienced engineering heads watching over both the
> design/build as well as the operation/maintenance.
> IMHO worse than worthless for LSR or any kind of amateur racing for that
> matter.
> Well, maybe I'd make an exception for little British sports cars like Lotus
> 7's with their silver soldered "birdcage" frames.... as long as they're
> powered with "little British" engines.
> Ed Weldon
>
>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "DougOdom" <dlodom@charter.net>
>>> To: "Landspeed List" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
>>> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 5:54 PM
>>> Subject: [Land-speed] John Force car
>>>
>> Bill, I started this thread for the people that are building a car out
>> of chrome moly tubing. In all the race cars I have built ( over 20 ) I
>> have never used chrome moly so I know very little about working with it.
>> I have a good friend that builds super modifieds. Of course they are
>> made with c/m tubing. Another good friend is a crew chief on a funny
>> car. From what I understand there has been a real hassle among funny
>> car builders about heat treating or normalizing c/m. .... Doug Odom in big
>>
> ditch
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