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Old 07-20-2011, 03:54 PM   #32 (permalink)
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everything that moves with suspension travel is "sprung", plus 1/2 the spring mass itself as a rule of thumb, AFAIK.

I can appreciate that F1 might not use it unless there was some advantage, I just don't know that unsprung weight is one of them without some details about precisely how that is supposed to work.

You agree that pushrods in a pushrod engine are "sprung" though, right? and thus they limit how well the valvetrain can track the cam at higher rpm.
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