Sort of like building a chassis with .083" tubing, welding on a .120" roll
cage and then adding an additional 400 or 500 lbs a ballast to get it to
stick. Hmmm...
JB
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Dahlgren" <ddahlgren@snet.net>
To: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
Cc: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 8:28 AM
Subject: Re: Ballast yet again
> 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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