Mayf
You need a job, maybe the coffee shop will let you dry dishes or something.
Go work on the car LOL.
Tell the desert bunch I said hello.
Glen
----- Original Message -----
From: "drmayf" <drmayf@mayfco.com>
To: "LSR" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 10:25 AM
Subject: [Land-speed] Caster etc..
> Doug Odom had a good idea on data... so I added a 12A) line. Thanks, Doug.
> Also clarified weight as that right after or during a run. Thanks Neil A.
>
> mayf
> ***********************************************************************
> Well, here I go again. Same subject a different tangent, though. If I
> had data, lots of data, then I would try and do something with it in the
> form of a rule of thumb set of numbers. Might give a good starting place
> for some one wanting to build a new or modify an older car.
>
> If I had:
> 1) Wheel base
> 2) Front Track Eidth
> 3) Rear Track Width
> 4) Caster
> 5) Camber
> 6) Toe
> 7) Steering Angle Inclinaion
> 8) Nominal Vehicle Weight
> 9) Scrub Radius
> 10) Front Tire Type (ie real rubber tire or machined from aluminum or ?)
> 11) Top speed attained at any time with the above set up
> 12) Vehicle Weight with driver and all fluids as if you just finished a
> run...
>
> 12A) Weight bias front to rear (ie what does the front of the car weigh
> and what does the rear weigh or a percentage number)
>
> 13) Comments about the handling qualities at speed.
>
> I would *NOT* need to know the car, the driver, the class, or any
> other personal data associated with the car. What I would like to do is
> build a data base of factors so that I can search to see if there are
> any common denominators. I might put the information into parametric
> form of something say like wheelbase / average track width or maybe a
> lot of other combinations. But mainly just to summarize the data into
> some meaningful information. But I would need lots of real data input.
> If anybody is game, shoot the info to me what ever you have. I'll make
> an excel file and work from that...or you can tell me to blow it out
> my..... well, you know where, lol..
>
> mayf
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