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Re: Effect of wheel weight
[Re: bill_greenwood]
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06/02/13 06:58 AM
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Back in the day, our car was running mid 12's with steel chrome 5 spokes. We swapped to convo-pros on all 4 corners with a skinnier front. Went to the track expecting to pick up a tenth and it was still running mid 12's. No real change for us 
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Re: Effect of wheel weight
[Re: Tig]
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06/02/13 09:35 AM
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The mass is more significant as it moves away from the center of rotation. This inertia effect increases with the square of the radius. But, the negative effect of inertia is perportional to change of rotational speed (acceleration). Anyone that spends big dollars on gun drilled axles will likely be disappointed and wont pick up more than the actual weight removed. Going from new street tires to close to bald (may drop quite a bit of weight in some cases) is weight where it is more significant. A pound of tread verses a pound of lug nuts has 38 times more effect one the overall inertia of the wheel/tire (given a 28 inch tire. and 4.5 in. bolt circle). In fact, the total weight of a wheel/tire combo could be less than another but still result in more loss due to increased inertia. Running a smaller/lighter converter or damper (or even paying the extra to have the crank turned down when you have a bunch of material to remove) could payoff. 
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Re: Effect of wheel weight
[Re: jcc]
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06/02/13 11:15 AM
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The idea of testing wheel weight, would seem like a good and easy tech article for one of the car mags, just come up with a system to SECURELY bolt on some balanced wheel weight, and make runs.
Maybe fluid in the tires..??
Interesting idea for a test and worthy of a reply.
The first problem I see would judging how fast the fluid due to inner tire friction would match the actual tire revolutions, not likely very quick. Second problem would be the liquid would also likely due to its considerable mass distort the tire as it reached higher speed, which would change its rolling radius, and traction footprint, and last and likely not a real issue for drag use, but if temps inside ever reached 212F if using any water, you have steam related issues. I suspect the test would become a fluid in the tire test at the drags rather then test of wheel inertia at the drags.
All I see with this type of testing is a REALLY out
of balance tire and if enough was added you would
just destroy the tire due to bouncing due to balance
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Re: Effect of wheel weight
[Re: B G Racing]
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06/02/13 12:29 PM
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Not back to back, but I picked up ~.15 in the 1/4 by replacing my cop wheels with drag lites. Same tires, saved 15# per wheel.
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Re: Effect of wheel weight
[Re: Wedgeman]
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06/02/13 12:49 PM
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Can someone tell me the gain of going to lighter wheel on the back vs ET ?
...........I mean what gain in time for every pound lighter
Dan
I can tell you! The gain will will be equal to a dead weight loss rule of thumb .1 et per 100 lbs.
The rotational effect wont come into play because the tire will gain rotational speed the whole 1/4 mile. the car just sees the weight as dead weight.
I did the tests many years ago Hoping I would see 1# rotational = 3# of dead weight.
The theoretical gain never occured. The gain was that of the weight alone that was lost as per the old rule of thumb.
I also went as far as removing the rear drums and tested The drums were 40# Guess what 40# of rotational weight was worth ET wise. It was the same as 40# of dead weight.
I did that test over and over a few times.40# on ,40# off, The rotational gain never showed its effect, MEASURABLY!!!
My speculation again was that it was because the tire slowly gains rotation across the whole 1/4 mile ,thus the car sees the weight just the same as dead weight because of that.
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