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Re: Some Drag Thoughts...

To: Jon Wennerberg <jonw@up.net>
Subject: Re: Some Drag Thoughts...
From: Joe Timney <joetimney@dol.net>
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 16:04:11 -0500
Jon,

The Waddel Brothers Volvo has run with and without the Double Vision Bumper all
year, they told me that they saw no difference in the performance but I think
they finished Number Two this year so maybe it was smoke!!!

joe

Jon Wennerberg wrote:

> Then there's the Volvo that the two fellas from Tennessee run at Maxton --
> sorry, can't remember their names, but they're the ones that got the grenade
> award at the last Maxton meet --- for the most dramatic motor blowup of the
> previous race.
>
> Anyway, they've got two Volvo front bumpers on the car -- one in normal
> location, the other bolted to the bottom of the first one to act as an air
> dam.  Sorta "double-vision" if you'd like.  I wonder if they could offer
> some results from their experiments.  I don't know if they've tried to
> quantify the system by "with" and "without" back-to-back runs, or whatever.


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