Since the other post got closed I want to expain how I secure the wieght in my bed.

While it is true that I once ran a test and tune run with my Generator in my bed, and it was strapped and locked to my roll bar. There was no way it could have come loose. I have never done that in compitition. and the time I did it I only did it due to the idiots running the track causing a huge line getting in the track. I got to the track at 7:30 AM and didn't make it into the pits till after 9:30.

When I secure weight in my truck in compitition It is secured to my roll bar by two heavy duty braided steel cables directlly to my roll bar which is welded to the frame.

Hope that clears it up a little

 

I was going to tell them that in the other thread...but I got a kick out of watching Bruce run his head. Besides...I figured you would tell them if you wanted them to know, I didn't want to give away any of your secrets......like your great pit driving technique.....LOL. . HMMMMM...what's this little lever do???? Oh...it's the brakes.


Take it easy Don....hope to see you in Bristol


Rocks

 

Here we go again.


BTW- Don dont take this the wrong way but unless you had it bolted down exactly like the NHRA/IHRA states in the rule book, your pissing in the wind. Braided line doesnt cut the Mustard.

 

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this is a very valid subject. that in all reality really needs to be discussed. we need to come up with a very efficient and safe way to put in some weight ballasts to offset the one tenth breakout. rule of thumb every 100 lbs. is a tenth so in all reality if you were to put 2 50lb weights(from a weight set or otherwise) on the truck you should be able to remove said weights for eliminations and should theoretically run right on your number for elims.

 

Don Justis has done just that.

he bolted 2 pieces of round stock (across from each other) a little past the axles toward the back and layed weights on them with a collar to keep them from moving (It almost looks like he took a barbell and cut it in half and turned them up)
Allowing him to legally and safely go up or down in weight.

VINNIE

 

That's what we're talking about ... Doing it according to the RULES.
Which by the way are made for SAFETY's sake.
No mere cable is gonna hold down anything if you hit the wall.
The laws of physics cannot be repealed.

I thought of welding a ballast box where the spare tire used to
hang, just to balance the weight on the front and rear to perform
better on track. Just haven't gotten to it yet.....

To give you an idea of what gravity can do, a friend of mine couldn't
find his wallet after his accident. He reached around and the
wallet had been torn out of his jeans pocket by the force of the
crash. Not the stitching.... right through the cloth of a new pair of jeans.

(I told him he was carrying too much money around !!)

Seriously, though, please be safe with whatever you try to
do to beat the odds. Anything less is too big a risk.

 

i don't want to be the physics police, but technically it is inertia, not gravity.

he must have had either some counterfit jeans, or one hell of a wad in his wallet! that's crazy

 

It was an armor piercing wallet!!