They make large flat pieces of lead, that would be easy to stack to get to
250lbs.

As far as placement, as low as possible and as near the center of the
vehicle as possible. Offset for/aft for weight distribution, but close to
the center. Inertia, baby!

-Jordon Musser
-http://www.fastblackcar.com
-http://www.jordonmusser.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: stu@yahoogroups.com [mailto:stu@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
> trog@...
> Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 8:23 AM
> To: stu@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [SM] What is a ballast "segment"?
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>
> > Umm, nuts & bolts?
>
> What size, and mounted to what structure, exactly?
>
> I'm not saying it's not possible, but you can't just
> handwave away the engineering challenges of mounting large
> amounts of mass to a structure than wasn't designed to carry
> it.
>
> Oi, Lotus Elise....
>
> > My suggestion is still 100% legal and
> > the guy could always jam to some good tunes in grid.
>
> Very true. But realize that the rule was written the way it
> was for a reason, and that reason was not "piss off the car
> constructor" but rather "try and keep things as safe as
> possible"
>
> Ballast is one of those things that's really easy to talk
> about and much more difficult to implement. Do you own a
> weight set? (barbells?) Go pile up 250lbs of weights and
> look at it, and think about how you'd mount that to your
> Neon....
>
> DG
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