[Land-speed] Charles Nearburg

[Skip Higginbotham]

Any time one can run  300 in the 1/4. The downstream speed will be 
good. That has to figure into the equation.

Skip






At 07:11 PM 1/6/2011, Dave Dahlgren wrote:
>You lost me a bit there but if I see what you are hinting at I think the
>problem is less with a drive wheel than a driven one. A drive wheel the tire
>gets deformed from the loads on it providing thrust so a small deflection
>might just unwind it a bit then it gets rewound unless the unwind also unhooks
>it from having traction. A driven wheel is more like an over inflated
>basketball with about the same amount of damping..
>Dave
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: NT788 at comcast.net
>   To: Dave Dahlgren
>   Cc: List Land Speed ; sparky 2211
>   Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 9:06 PM
>   Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Charles Nearburg
>
>
>   Dave
>
>   I call what a what a tire does thrust?
>
>   Jack
>
>   I am on Jack's side here. Traction control Motec or otherwise will save you
>   from hurting tires but will never make it faster. Ack went 394 or 
> so out the
>   back with 1 tire and I can promise there is no traction control there. Aero
>   is everything in the end and frontal area is right there with it. The old
>   V^3 problem.. if it has some suspension even better a solid 
> suspension turns
>   the tires into an undamped spring and harder to control than might be
>   initially thought. For it to work the track has to be perfectly flat and
>   smooth, problem is nothing is perfectly flat and smooth. Ever drive a car
>   with bad shocks? same thing only at a more exciting pace.
>   Dave
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: <NT788 at comcast.net>
>   To: "sparky 2211" <sparky.2211 at cox.net>
>   Cc: "List Land Speed" <land-speed at autox.team.net>
>   Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 8:02 PM
>   Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Charles Nearburg
>
>
>   > -Weight, balance, aero,frontal area,controlability,traction coefficientB
>   > and
>   > horsepower. Jack
>   >
>   >
>   >
>   >
>   > Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Charles Nearburg
>   >
>   > My GUESS would be MOTEC traction control.
>   >
>   >
>   > ---- Bryan Savage <b.a.savage at wildblue.net> wrote:
>   >> Hi folks,
>   >>
>   >> While reading Howard Nafzger's comments about the car he designed and
>   > built,
>   >> "How did Charles hook up so much horsepower with two-wheel drive?b
>   >>
>   >> A very interesting question. Before he did it, I couldn't believe you
>   >> could put enough
>   >> power down on the salt to exceed 400MPH.
>   >>
>   >> All I can think of is that the car has outstanding aero so it didn't
>   >> have to put down
>   >> a lot of power...??
>   >>
>   >> As it was an FIA run, it wasn't a tail wind.
>   >>
>   >> Anyone else have any ideas?
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