John
Open wheel as lakester or stock bodied style.??
Glen
----- Original Message -----
From: "john backus" <34ford@msn.com>
To: "landspeedracer" <landspeedracer@msn.com>; "pork.pie"
<pork.pie@t-online.de>; "land-speed" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 9:42 AM
Subject: Re: Wheelbase2
> John, can one make a longer car with the allowed short stock wheelbase?
Like a
> long swoopy nose that extends out well past the front axle?
>
> John Backus
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: landspeedracer
> Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 4:14 PM
> To: pork.pie; land-speed@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Wheelbase2
>
> Pork Pie
>
> Actually my experience at 240 MPH, in a 120" WB car, is very much the same
> as Joe Kugals at 300 MPH in a 101" car. Personally don't think the car
being
> a hand full has much of anything to do with wheelbase, not that it isn't
> possible, and there are other factors like a wet surface, but the big part
> in my estimation is the lack of acceleration on the top end. Now I've not
> driven a long WB car over 218 MPH so I don't have that ability to compare
> two different WB cars at same higher speeds yet.
>
> I would assume that if any of us began to build a Streamliner tomorrow we
> would probably start with a long WB and perhaps hit on the right
> combination. What has been discussed so far on this list would certainty
> help some try and do it right the first time. But a Streamliner or
Lakester
> has that freedom of design.
>
> Now some classes, like /ALT, /GC etc. can't lengthen the WB. So the
builder
> has to work within the limitations of the vehicle and class they choose.
> What is the best way to make a short (relatively speaking) 90 to 110" WB
> stock bodied "brick" go fast and handle to the best of it's ability?
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