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1. Weight distribution? (score: 1): Author: "paul bland" <paul.blandavon@btinternet.com>; Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 15:18:55 +0100; List, when planning the weight distribution in a liner what percentage front/rear would you go for? I'm well aware of the "separating the centre off gravity from the centre of pressure" theory, but b; /html/land-speed/2004-07/msg00266.html (7,687 bytes)
2. Re: Weight distribution? (score: 1): Author: "John Beckett" <saltracer@servusa.com>; Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 12:33:03 -0400; 51% front and 49% rear has always worked very well for me. JB, #79 ?/GCC off there's a much; /html/land-speed/2004-07/msg00267.html (8,070 bytes)
3. Re: Weight distribution? (score: 1): Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>; Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 13:41:23 -0400; Hi Paul - The CG of a rear drive streamliner is so far back it's hard to get the CP back far enough - It's more a mater of livable instability and keeping the front heavy enough to overcome any lift; /html/land-speed/2004-07/msg00274.html (7,592 bytes)
4. Re: Weight distribution? (score: 1): Author: <staiger3@starband.net>; Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 16:16:14 -0400 (EDT); To continue this thread, since production bodies are short and wide, what have LSRs found to be a good weight distrabution for a door slammer on the salt? or does this question become one of CP verse; /html/land-speed/2004-07/msg00278.html (7,867 bytes)
5. Re: Weight distribution? (score: 1): Author: Flowbench@aol.com; Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 16:59:45 EDT; 3rd generation f-bodied GM cars have run well with 52% front & 48% rear. Total weight is a factor depending on class & speed. Mike; /html/land-speed/2004-07/msg00280.html (7,351 bytes)
6. Re: Weight distribution? (score: 1): Author: Skip Higginbotham <saltrat@lubricationdynamics.com>; Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 18:19:34 -0500; I look at it like this: 4wd......50% front and rear, adjust the cp to give you a foot or so separation. rearwd......40% front and 60% rear, and adjust the cp accordingly frontwd...put as much weight; /html/land-speed/2004-07/msg00284.html (8,193 bytes)
7. RE: Weight distribution? (score: 1): Author: "Dave Dahlgren" <ddahlgren@snet.net>; Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 08:23:09 -0400; How do you find said center of pressure? wouldn't it change dynamically with speed? or do you just hang something out in the wind to make sure it is behind the CG? If so that seems counter productive; /html/land-speed/2004-07/msg00287.html (9,395 bytes)
8. Re: Weight distribution? (score: 1): Author: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>; Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 08:32:39 -0500; This whole conversation is interesting... but what I learned last year is that each car is different...and has it's own desires... some cars like weight on the rear... some like it on the front... Da; /html/land-speed/2004-07/msg00288.html (8,390 bytes)
9. Re: Weight distribution? (score: 1): Author: Skip Higginbotham <saltrat@lubricationdynamics.com>; Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 10:13:42 -0500; Yes it should be measured as everything else associated with aero stability. I hope I don't have to do the technical explanation of a weathervane............. S; /html/land-speed/2004-07/msg00296.html (9,040 bytes)
10. RE: Weight distribution? (score: 1): Author: "Dave Dahlgren" <ddahlgren@snet.net>; Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 14:57:34 -0400; I was thinking it might be more complicated than that. I haven't seen a weathervane at 300 or so mph.. My concern was the air detaching at some given speed and changing the center of pressure. I was; /html/land-speed/2004-07/msg00299.html (9,899 bytes)
11. RE: Weight distribution? (score: 1): Author: Higginbotham Land Speed Racing <saltrat@lubricationdynamics.com>; Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 12:44:29 -0500; Right! Now the choice is really whether to have most of the vertical area behind the Cg or in front of it. If the weather vane had the larger area in front of the pivot point then it would want to po; /html/land-speed/2004-07/msg00321.html (9,028 bytes)
12. Re: weight distribution? (score: 1): Author: William T Smith <WmTSmith@landracing.com>; Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 19:33:45 -0600 (MDT); Dick, Are you trying to add a new dimension to weight Quoting Dick J <lsr_man@yahoo.com>: majordomo@autox.team.net /// /// land-speed@autox.team.net mailing list /// To unsubscribe send a plain text; /html/land-speed/2001-10/msg00643.html (10,757 bytes)

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