Keith, I have a friend that is a top crew chief on an alcohol funny car.
I asked him about their chutes. He said their readouts show some where
in the 3.5 to 4 g's. It's a hard enough hit that some guys are having
trouble with the retinas in their eyes. They have a much shorter
shutdown area than we do, but they have a much larger tire on the ground
so they can use a lot more brake. Remember Nolan Whites problem with the
chute was not the hardware but the sewing on the straps broke. Im going
to try a Stroud chute on the Sprite this year. I never have liked the
way the other chute opened. Doug Odom in big ditch
Keith Turk wrote:
>Another interesting sidelight to this chute discussion is how much pull is
>your car going to have on the attaching point.
>
>In my car's case it has seen a worse case example of 2.3 G's last year....
>which means that the point at which this thing is actually pullying on the car
>needs to be strong enough to take many pulls with at least twice that much
>wieght..... 2250lb car.... times 5 g's? hmmm 10,000lbs of pure tension
>strength?
>
>Keith ( just a thought.... I've seen some folks do this with 5/16 grade 3
>hardware )
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