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Re: Ballast yet again

To: Keith Turk <kturk@ala.net>
Subject: Re: Ballast yet again
From: Joe Amo <jkamo@rap.midco.net>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 06:12:41 -0600
sounds like the aero loads at speed are such that
he needed to set it up as such statically

Joe

Keith Turk wrote:

>    Had an interesting Chat with Ron Benham last night on the subject of
>weight and scaling a car...  His thoughts were to run 65% of the weight in the
>back of the car.... and looks to me like he accomplished that.... whew...
>These aren't my thoughts just his.... so rather then subtract the all the
>ballast from the rear I'm just going to take a bit of it out and move it to
>the front and then add some more to the front to get as close to 51 on the
>nose as I can get...
>
>I just thought I would share his point of view.... it was radically different
>from my experience and the suggestions from the list...
>
>Keith

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