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Originally Posted by ironworks
Plus if you had 2 11 gallon tanks with proper baffling designed for your applications you would not have much slosh. Plus a full tank of fuel wont slosh.
I actually thought about doing this on the truck and mount them on both sides of the drive shaft in front of the rear. Then I decided to just try and finish the truck! 
But the things a drift car does to set up their car is similar to a dirt car
Never put those 2 together, but yep I can now see the tie in. Cool, might have to go drift something!
No where have I ever seen a car set up to turn left with the softer spring on the right then the left but in dirt racing.
We tried this on asphalt as part of the soft spring big bar fad in the late 90's. It worked, but corner entry was limited. If you didn't get it right, oh boy!
As much as the racing on dirt is like a women's emotions, you have no idea what your going to get from one day to the next, vehicle dynamics are going to be similar, you just have to use those dynamics for your driving condition and driving style.
I think this says alot. Getting back to the OP's question, Weight placement and distribution can be very different for different cars, uses, driving styles, etc. But a good general rule would be when in doubt Low and near the CG with compromises moving out from there. |
Gotta agree with all that you said above! I made some comments in red too! I knew where you were coming from, I guess I just didn't want the person that has never experienced this stuff to go to his dirt track buddy and think all the stuff he does will work on the street, autoX etc. Make Sense?
Oh, and post some more racing videos, I need my fix. Racing is all but done back here!
