I understand what he is saying. Let the older Red Devils that were built very heavy be competitive, by raising the minimum. This might work better for road racing. Autocrossing would be a disaster, because our direct competition is the solo vees. WE dont need to be closer to their minimum of 1000lbs with driver. Bill Schmidt 88 REd Devil Kawi
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/13/06 9:04 AM >>> I'm not sure I understand this. Granted, I weigh 50 lbs less (around 150), but I have to add ~12-15 lbs of ballast to get to 800 lbs with empty tanks. Someone at 165 would be dead-on. This is in a 2002 Red Devil with starter, battery, and some added weight in gussets and tubing - it's not exactly an anorexic car, and I've made no efforts to reduce its weight. Stock-built, I would expect to see ~10 lbs lighter (getting break-even to 175 lbs), and you could go to a pull-starter to take off even more. From what I understand, the Invaders start out significantly lighter than this car, so I must be missing something. Personally, I don't like the idea of running with 65 lbs of lead bolted in. In a newer, lighter car, I could be pushing 80-90 lbs of ballast.....does this really make sense? Marshall Mauney <<<Has anyone ever considered petitioning to have our minimum weight raised to say 850? It seems a large percentage of us are "normal sized" adults in the 190-210 weight range. It is nearly impossible for most of us to make minimum weight of 800 pounds. In the interest of fair competition, it seems that we should try to get the minimum set to a point that most of us can make. I am by no means "over-weight" physically, but still come in a full 30 pounds over the minimum on a good day as I am 6'2" tall, 203 pounds. >>> ________________________________________________________________________ Check out AOL.com today. Breaking news, video search, pictures, email and IM. All on demand. Always Free. _______________________________________________ F500 mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change options please visit: http://f500.org/mailman/listinfo/f500 *** Please, DO NOT send unsubscribe requests to the mailing list! *** _______________________________________________ F500 mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change options please visit: http://f500.org/mailman/listinfo/f500 *** Please, DO NOT send unsubscribe requests to the mailing list! ***
