Re: Suspension

["John Beckett" <saltracer@servusa.com>]

The Drag guys use soft rear springs and so did the NASCAR teams before the
tech guys decided it was a cheetin.

JB
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
To: "John Beckett" <saltracer@servusa.com>; "DrMayf" <drmayf@teknett.com>;
<land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: Suspension


> John after our conversation about the Hondaliners roll under power I'm
glad
> he's added the Roll Bar....  I think the springs he's got in it are a bit
> soft... so that's the first tuning bit I'm going to do with the car.... I
> have to put some string in for this meet ( tied to the chassis and the
rear
> end ) to tell me how much it's moving... but ultimately my goal is to have
a
> transducer on each end of the car to measure travel...
>
> This meet should be really interesting to see how well the car behaves...
> I'm sure it's going to work well... that's not really in question... what
is
> up for grab's is how well it hooks up....  with solid suspension that
thing
> was a rocket ship.... this should make it even better.... which is really
> going to be a hoot...
>
> K