You could do like Bonner Denton did, he uses a small drag chute which
moves the center of pressure back just like a tail fin. Works great.
Bryan
drmayf wrote:
> I keep reminding mysef that the Sunbeam is pretty light weight. So to
> that end Ihave been looking for ballast. I have these lovely rectangular
> tube frame rails which beg to be filled with something. So I was
> messing around th eother day on ebay and found something that interested
> me. It is a steel shot grit used in blasting heavy iron castings. It
> comes in a lot of different grit sizes from 0.007 to something like
> 0.025 diameters. Smaller is more dense. And th stuff is oiled so it is
> kinda slippery (according to the guy I chatted with) Has any amoung you
> ever used such a product as ballast? I would pur the stuff into the
> frame tubes and then seal the end to keep it all in place. And since
> this is frame, it is way down low which is good. I figure I have enough
> frame locations to add about 400 pounds to the car just this way.
>
> Anybody use something like this?
>
> mayf
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