[Shotimes] Plus hood lighter than OEM steel hood?

[Donald Mallinson]

Ever weigh the rear spoiler?  I would be surprised if it was 
5 pounds.  But the benefits are worth a lot more.

At the Atlanta convention (first one) we did laps of Atlanta 
Motor Speedway and coming into turn three (now turn one) I 
was up to about 118 mph and the back end got a little light!

I think the spoiler might have helped.

I still remember the feeling I had when that happened! 
There was a reason the "school was limiting entry speed to 
115 that day, but if you got to be tail end charlie and hung 
back a little, you could play catch up and get an extra 2-3 
mph with a stock SHO, that was enough to make a pretty big 
difference.  Let me tell anyone that has never done an oval, 
that those walls look HUGE and the corner TINY coming in 
well over 100 mph.  I really got new respect for the NASCAR 
guys that "just turn left" all day at 200 mph!

Don M.



> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bruce Malachuk" <bmalach1@nycap.rr.com>
> To: "shotimes" <shotimes@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 1:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Plus hood lighter than OEM steel hood?
> 
> 
> 
>>So in essence to get the weight reduction benefits of a plus hood one just
>>needs to hit the bathroom before driving, not eat or drink anything the
> 
> day
> 
>>before and and drive barefoot? Right?
>>
>>Bruce