Aerodynamic question

[TMONEYDIESEL]

Batting practice starts in 30min

 

[morkable]

Brett, I know that a single stack would be lighter,,, but I just cant do it,, lol,, I need to lose weight somewheres else,, just cant do a single, dont like the way it looks... lol

 

[dvst8r]

Brett, I know that a single stack would be lighter,,, but I just cant do it,, lol,, I need to lose weight somewheres else,, just cant do a single, dont like the way it looks... lol

No stack, just an aluminum down pipe out the fender... :st:

 

[THATpreston]

No stack, just an aluminum down pipe out the fender... :st:

Just as long as the smoke can't interfere with the staging lights....

 

[dvst8r]

Just as long as the smoke can't interfere with the staging lights....

Bull horn. Like the 275x guys.

 

[Runninlean]

Just as long as the smoke can't interfere with the staging lights....

Not according to NADM they want it pointing upwards.

 

[TMONEYDIESEL]

Not according to NADM they want it pointing upwards.

So make the downpipe turn up,

 

[dvst8r]

Not according to NADM they want it pointing upwards.

See the bull horn comment above. :shake:

 

[Runninlean]

Yeah my comment was not in response to your post it was referring to Preston's.

 

[Billy Stocklin]

Billy's toenail clippings know more about going fast than Wade will possibly ever know.
Learn how to pick your battles Wade...Billy is in the big leagues...you're still playing t-ball.

I'll trade you some clippings for a smoke switch schematic! LOL- thanks for the kind words guys. I have not seen that video before. Thanks for the link. That was a good day.

 

[Louis]

What kind of speeds? Aero is a totally new thing, and it behaves very abnormally. I've logged about 40 hours in wind tunnels the last 5 years and do a lot of CFD work. Maybe I'll whip something up.

 

[morkable]

I hope to be around 140 mph in the 1/4

 

[roachie]

The shipping weight of a pair of bedsides and the FiberWerx 1-piece front end (hood with integrated fenders and fender extensions) with the 2x3 wood shipping crate weighed less than 100 lbs... so I'd say yes it was lighter... I would guess that the steel hood weighs something similar to that... I haven't scaled any of it yet so I don't know for sure but that is my guess.

For a hood it would depend if it had internal structure or not...

From memory you were dealing with a chevy? They use old school construction that uses enough steel to allow glass to be lighter. In dodge and ford apps the glass weighs more than the tin.


Kevin, I would have just bought some bed skins from dodge and made aluminum supports to hold them in thier respective places. The skins weigh about 30-40lbs.

 

[Runninlean]

Mine is cutout to the bed skins and I run a cover. Now that im thinking about it might pull the keeper pin's off the gate and see how bad the rear section lifts going down the track. (not a wide open pass of course build up to it)