Oh man that looks dicey with the left wheel off the ground, steering must suck when that happens. But brute attitude in "the old man" won that go I am sure.
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Oh man that looks dicey with the left wheel off the ground, steering must suck when that happens. But brute attitude in "the old man" won that go I am sure.
It is not really that bad. We hang tire quite often. It is a way to transfer weight on dirttrack stuff to the left rear tire for more dig and forward traction. It sounds silly but a 2500 pound car is going to have more dig if it is splitting that weight between 3 tires instead of 4. The right front is kinda like a rutter on a boat. The rear axle actually steers under the car as it rolls onto its side. This setup was kind of an expieramental , we machined some 1 off parts on the right front to keep it rolled over and help it turn through the corner. It worked really well and the left front was on a limiter also to tie it up. Normally it would be about 2.25 inches lower. I was telling @dj123 about it last Friday on discord. Notice how the right front stays pinned down and the left rear comes way up so we can use all the surface area of the flat deck as a sort of wing since we can not run a wing in this class, so we are just using the body as a wing. lol . It is not cheating it is just exploiting the gray area of the rules.
So is that the part that you showed us building a few post back, to help re-distribute the weight?
No, that was us updating a guys car to modern standards. Newer cars use bars about 6 inches shorter than the older cars for better traction and turning.