| Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,777 | A dirt track race car is built sort of like a bridge- - - -the roll cage is a series of trusses that are SUPPOSED to be rigid enough to allow the suspension jack screws to be adjusted for specific wheel loading to alter traction and handling in turns. Watch a good-running car go down the back straightaway sometime- - - -with the left front wheel a foot off the track from engine torque! One of Dad's competitors back in the early 1950's ran a sedan body instead of a coupe like everybody else. He sat less than a foot ahead of the rear wheel. His frame was flexible enough to hold the front wheel off the ground the full length of the back stretch! Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt! There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
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