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Old 09-13-2009, 05:38 PM   #109 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Hermie View Post
Daaaamn. Did anyone notice the front-end lift numbers of the stock Camaro in thr first post? That's definitely enough to make it hard to swerve out of the way of a car cutting you off on the highway, even when you done it down to freeway speeds.
More math for you, but I don't think it's going to help.
250mph/4 = 62.5mph (highway speed for most of us)

Lift quadruples as speed doubles. So if you half the speed, lift will fall by 4.

aka @ 125mph the lift is now 100 pounds
and @ 62.5mph the lift is now 25 pounds

I believe my math is somewhat correct.
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