Posted By: pittsburghracer
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A combo of toooo much wing on the front and rear of the car ?
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A combo of toooo much wing on the front and rear of the car ?
Not in my book, the wings were doing what they were supposed to, applying DF, which allowed the available HP to accelerate the car, causing the front end to try and lift, enough to the point the chassis failed. Its chassis failure.
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A combo of toooo much wing on the front and rear of the car ?
Not in my book, the wings were doing what they were supposed to, applying DF, which allowed the available HP to accelerate the car, causing the front end to try and lift, enough to the point the chassis failed. Its chassis failure.
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A combo of toooo much wing on the front and rear of the car ?
Not in my book, the wings were doing what they were supposed to, applying DF, which allowed the available HP to accelerate the car, causing the front end to try and lift, enough to the point the chassis failed. Its chassis failure.
Doc called it right, if it didn't have more wing than the chassis could handle it wouldn't have failed.
Quote:That old chassis was tweaked in the high end by down force on every run and it finally failed.
The chassis was from 2010, it was wore out. The hp strain over powered the metal fatigue and it snapped the chassis.
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The chassis was from 2010, it was wore out. The hp strain over powered the metal fatigue and it snapped the chassis.
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Front downforce and rear downforce create center lift...
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looks like the chromemoly tube broke.
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Wow lucky!
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car only had 60-70 passes
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/03/nhra-larry-dixon-crash-video-photos
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car only had 60-70 passes
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/03/nhra-larry-dixon-crash-video-photos
And I'm thinking he meant 60 passes after it was front
havfted ... doesnt take long to get 60 hits.. and
thats a 2010 new build
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Wouldn't think down force would cause it to go right.
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No, but expecting both top chords of the frame to fail/seperate/collapse at exactly at the same time would be asking a lot, hence the bend we see in the latest headon video.