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1. spoilers & weight (score: 1): Author: Gene Halvorson <ghalvors@pressenter.com>; Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 09:36:27 -0500; Both Darrel Ferguson and Thomas Bryant have raised some issues that perhaps they can expound on. I am running a big-block 74 Vette. It has a later model "duck-tail" type spoiler. I didn't consider th; /html/land-speed/1999-06/msg00072.html (8,168 bytes)
2. Re: spoilers & weight (score: 1): Author: John Beckett <johnbeck@blueridge.cc.nc.us>; Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 10:30:01 -0400; Call Goodyear at 517-592-6681 and ask about their land speed tires. Quite a few different sizes. JB; /html/land-speed/1999-06/msg00073.html (8,651 bytes)
3. Re: spoilers & weight (score: 1): Author: Ed Van Scoy <edvs@idt.net>; Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 08:24:16 -0400; Oh noooooooooooo! Not another plastic car on the salt! Seriously, welcome! You are correct in your concern about CG with the Vette. When I was building my '85 Vette, the "old timers" warned me about; /html/land-speed/1999-06/msg00075.html (9,460 bytes)
4. Re: spoilers & weight (score: 1): Author: dferguso@ebmail.gdeb.com; Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 12:56:04 -0400; there is a "static" cg, which exists when the car is at rest. now this static cg is influenced by many other factors when the car is being flogged down a raceway, and the static cg now exists in a co; /html/land-speed/1999-06/msg00076.html (10,268 bytes)
5. Re: spoilers & weight (score: 1): Author: V4GR@aol.com; Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 13:03:41 EDT; I never put any science into my Vega. Its a stock wheelbase 72 Vega (maybe 3 or 4 inch stretch) with the factory airdam and spoiler. 8.00-18 Firestones in back 23 inch tall M/Ts in front. No ballast.; /html/land-speed/1999-06/msg00077.html (7,749 bytes)
6. Re: spoilers & weight (score: 1): Author: "Thomas E. Bryant" <saltracer@awwwsome.com>; Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 10:31:06 -0700; It is easy to find the center of gravity, use two floor jacks, jacking the car up from the sides, and find the point where it balances. Center of pressure is a little more evasive. Basically, on mos; /html/land-speed/1999-06/msg00078.html (8,360 bytes)
7. Re: spoilers & weight (score: 1): Author: "Thomas E. Bryant" <saltracer@awwwsome.com>; Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 10:41:17 -0700; I suspect there was some skill involved, but never turn down the luck that comes your way. Regardless of how you arrived at your success, don't mess with success unless you are prepared pay the pric; /html/land-speed/1999-06/msg00079.html (7,566 bytes)
8. Re: spoilers & weight (score: 1): Author: V4GR@aol.com; Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 13:52:30 EDT; Has anyone looked at the KKM monza? That's a real ground pounding short stock type car. What ever they did can't be bad. Rich; /html/land-speed/1999-06/msg00080.html (7,178 bytes)
9. RE: spoilers & weight (score: 1): Author: Beth Butters <bbutters@dmi.net>; Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 19:35:15 -0700; How about running a small cable from the frame to the suspension as near as you can get to the wheel to limit the travel . In other words you should be able to jack the car completely off the ground; /html/land-speed/1999-06/msg00082.html (10,029 bytes)
10. Re: spoilers & weight (score: 1): Author: "Joseph Timney" <TIMNEYJJ@sterlingdi.com>; Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 09:53:09 -0400; The topic of balance, pitch rotation and the true center of gravity has an interesting apppication for a B-ville car. As in drag racing, B-ville is a straight line sport , but when trouble comes alon; /html/land-speed/1999-06/msg00084.html (9,880 bytes)

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