Keith
My guess is that your car is about half the weight of your average highly
competitive roadster.
Tom B's car is not extremely heavy and mine in not to far behind you both.
But as you observed we are not as hindered by aero problems as the roadster
boys are.
JB
----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
To: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 8:07 PM
Subject: Roadsters Aero issues...
> you know there are issues that face the roadster crowd that are entirely
> different then cars out there on the edge of speed...
>
> With the extended wheel base and highly aerodynamic profiles Streamliners
and
> lakesters have a tendency to go straight... they steer that way as a
function
> of the vehicles body....
>
> Roadsters on the other hand seem to be much more boxy and have much lower
> limits to the aero load then the others... They hit that was were
traction
> becomes an issue much sooner then other types of vehicles....
>
> I was thinking about the HP requirements in relationship to Coeffeicents
of
> Drag for each of the styles of cars.. and it kinda hit me that there are
> issues we aren't discussing here.... like how much of a drag race is it if
you
> can't hook up your car and how much do you care about weight if you have
more
> then adequate hp to cover it up? Will the aerodynamically challanged car
> always benifet from added weight?
>
> I know that my car is actually rather light at 2600lbs... or at least
light
> for the experience that I have....
>
> What are you folks thinking?
>
> Keith ( Glen ( insert correct insult for the time of day you read this )
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