Re: Ballast yet again

[Dave Dahlgren <ddahlgren@snet.net>]

Then you will be able to say 'Hey it's not very big but at least it is heavy'
LOL.. That's thinking inside the box..Nothing like having a car with an aluminum
engine to save weight and a ton of pig iron in it's belly.. LOL 
Is this like having 'tons of fun' ??
Dave

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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