Seems to me like this particular car body must provide enough down
force on the front of the car to stabilize the car. The weight on the back
gives it good traction without using air to do it so less drag. As long as
the weight is between the front and rear wheels it should and obviously does
work. I can't figure out how they figured out this would work for this
particular body, jish some of you guys are remarkable. Kvach having a
nice solid winter in North Idaho
----- Original Message -----
From: Dick J <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
To: <Flowbench@aol.com>; <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>; <kturk@ala.net>;
<land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 6:52 AM
Subject: Re: Maxton Ballast
> --- Flowbench@aol.com wrote:
> > We also scale the Firebird. 48% front / 52%
> rear
>
> Now that surprised me. I would have guessed 52%
> front and 48% rear for LSR, in fact I just sent
> those exact guesstimates to Rich Fox in an off
> the list reply to his last mail. Doesn't that
> weight distribution defy the "flight of the
> arrow" theory that was talked about a while back?
> Obviously, it works - - I mean, your firebird is
> surly "the mother of all firebirds"!, but I'm now
> wondering if the arrow idea is sound reasoning.
> What makes the light end of the car want to stay
> in front at 300+ MPH?
>
>
>
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