If your going to all the trouble to build the "air damn" the closer to the
ground the better. Low car's are ton's of fun to get on and off the trailer.
JB
At 02:59 PM 7/26/99 -0500, Keith Turk wrote:
>I do the quickie "pump up" on the course there at Maxton...
>
>our goal is to let the car down to about 1.5-2"and then as the chute comes
>out and all is well ...we start pumping them up to get the car up and not
>have a problem with the long shut down area.... or the return road... seems
>to work fine... even if we don't because of the increased altitude during
>slow speed operations.. Down force can cause it to collapse as much as 2"
>with low air pressure...
>
>None of this is rocket science even Springs or coil overs collapse with
>downforce... the question is really how much and how bad do you want to
>control that ....
>
>We are still going to have to remove the AirDamn Prior to loading the car
>on the trailer.. I think...
>
>
>Keith Turk
>Austin Healey 100, Bugeye, Box sprites, Bonneville Camaro ( Land Speed
>Racer)
>
>
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>> From: John Beckett <johnbeck@blueridge.cc.nc.us>
>> To: kturk@alanet; land-speed@autox.team.net
>> Subject: Re: Spoiler altitude
>> Date: Monday, July 26, 1999 1:16 PM
>>
>> As long as your on the prepared (scraped) course and the prepared turn
>> outs, one inch would be fine (were talking front here, right), but if you
>> should venture off for some reason be prepared to pump up the air bags in
>a
>> hurry.
>>
>> JB
>>
>> At 01:51 PM 7/26/99 EDT, V4GR@aol.com wrote:
>> >2 inches is plenty of clearance in my opinion. Maybe more than you will
>> need.
>> >Its only on the turnout that you may start plowing salt, and at 2 inches
>I
>> >think you will be fine. Rich Fox. P.S. Vega once again will go into
>high
>> >gear which should be a big help at salt.
>> >
>>
>>
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