Ponies on The Run!
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Charlie??
http://jalopnik.com/5045987/trucker-...to-cheat-tolls
Cool app for you iphone guys.
http://www.autoblog.com/2008/09/05/m...or-the-iphone/
http://jalopnik.com/5045987/trucker-...to-cheat-tolls
Cool app for you iphone guys.
http://www.autoblog.com/2008/09/05/m...or-the-iphone/
Last edited by LEO_06GT; Sep 5, 2008 at 03:49 PM.
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I'd send you the exact link but you'd swim in the jacket I got, here's the fire retardant jacket link. I got the R.J.S. one.
Summit Racing
**** I used to be a lot thinner....
Last edited by fabman; Sep 5, 2008 at 10:38 PM.
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Lots of drag racers disconnect the front sway bar for weight transfer...and thats okay, but you sacrifice cornering ability.
Back in the day there were some racers on oval tracks doing away with the front sway bar too....mostly dirt track cars but some asphalt boys subscribed to this method as well. You can do it but you have to return the wheel rate to it's original value so that the car feels the same in a turn.
First solve for wheel rate:
Spring rate X motion ratio (D1/D2) then solve for the anti roll bar rate at it's attachment point-(solve for it's motion ratio) X bar rate and then add to get the the total wheel rate. This is known as "Roll Couple".
Now increase the spring rate to bring the total wheel rate (with out the sway bar) up to the same wheel rate it had with the sway bar and it will have a similar corner response to a car with the sway bar still connected.
The down side is that with the increased wheel rate the tires will run hotter under all conditions instead of just hotter during cornering.....which is why that method was sh*t canned back in the stone age.
My suggestion is:
Leave the sway bar on....disconnect one link at the track....drag race.....hook it back up...drive home.
Best of both worlds.
Back in the day there were some racers on oval tracks doing away with the front sway bar too....mostly dirt track cars but some asphalt boys subscribed to this method as well. You can do it but you have to return the wheel rate to it's original value so that the car feels the same in a turn.
First solve for wheel rate:
Spring rate X motion ratio (D1/D2) then solve for the anti roll bar rate at it's attachment point-(solve for it's motion ratio) X bar rate and then add to get the the total wheel rate. This is known as "Roll Couple".
Now increase the spring rate to bring the total wheel rate (with out the sway bar) up to the same wheel rate it had with the sway bar and it will have a similar corner response to a car with the sway bar still connected.
The down side is that with the increased wheel rate the tires will run hotter under all conditions instead of just hotter during cornering.....which is why that method was sh*t canned back in the stone age.
My suggestion is:
Leave the sway bar on....disconnect one link at the track....drag race.....hook it back up...drive home.
Best of both worlds.
Last edited by fabman; Sep 5, 2008 at 11:56 PM.
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Lots of drag racers disconnect the front sway bar for weight transfer...and thats okay, but you sacrifice cornering ability.
Back in the day there were some racers on oval tracks doing away with the front sway bar too....mostly dirt track cars but some asphalt boys subscribed to this method as well. You can do it but you have to return the wheel rate to it's original value so that the car feels the same in a turn.
First solve for wheel rate:
Spring rate X motion ratio (D1/D2) then solve for the anti roll bar rate at it's attachment point-(solve for it's motion ratio) X bar rate and then add to get the the total wheel rate. This is known as "Roll Couple".
Now increase the spring rate to bring the total wheel rate (with out the sway bar) up to the same wheel rate it had with the sway bar and it will have a similar corner response to a car with the sway bar still connected.
The down side is that with the increased wheel rate the tires will run hotter under all conditions instead of just hotter during cornering.....which is why that method was sh*t canned back in the stone age.
My suggestion is:
Leave the sway bar on....disconnect one link at the track....drag race.....hook it back up.
Best of both worlds.
Back in the day there were some racers on oval tracks doing away with the front sway bar too....mostly dirt track cars but some asphalt boys subscribed to this method as well. You can do it but you have to return the wheel rate to it's original value so that the car feels the same in a turn.
First solve for wheel rate:
Spring rate X motion ratio (D1/D2) then solve for the anti roll bar rate at it's attachment point-(solve for it's motion ratio) X bar rate and then add to get the the total wheel rate. This is known as "Roll Couple".
Now increase the spring rate to bring the total wheel rate (with out the sway bar) up to the same wheel rate it had with the sway bar and it will have a similar corner response to a car with the sway bar still connected.
The down side is that with the increased wheel rate the tires will run hotter under all conditions instead of just hotter during cornering.....which is why that method was sh*t canned back in the stone age.
My suggestion is:
Leave the sway bar on....disconnect one link at the track....drag race.....hook it back up.
Best of both worlds.
That's way over my head.
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i think we just all got schooled by someone that knows his ****
BTW, impressive trophy room. Still it was the Tom Selleck 'stache that brought the chicks... how many hawiian shirts did you have ?
BTW, impressive trophy room. Still it was the Tom Selleck 'stache that brought the chicks... how many hawiian shirts did you have ?
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I'm not sure what brought the chicks....but there certainly were some. (something to be said for a high self asteem)
I lived in the Sac valley back then......there wouldn't be Hawaiian shirts in my collection for many years after that....
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