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race car
Luke,is it the AA Fuel Altered that you want help on? Your all-up weight would be useful ( wet ).Are you at full lock-up with the clutch at the timing light? Is there any horsepower to spare? Is the body of the car already carbon-fiber epoxy? Does the rule-book allow any enclosure of the body/chassis for that class? Are the wrinkle-walls slipping presently at speed ( roof-top negative-lift airfoil )? Can the driver see around the engine/blower/bug-catcher at present time? Do you have your front/rear axle weight bias ? Do you have a sense of the car's dynamic weight distribution at upper speed. Do you have a time/velocity table so we can see your residence time through a velocity regime? Can you show us where the center-of-gravity of the car is. Have you ever put a model of it in a windtunnel to determine it's aerodynamic center-of-pressure. Does the car do a wheel-stand,with chassis-flecture at launch? If so,at what distance and velocity does the front wheels touch down? Do the small outboard winglets at the front axle keep the wheels firmly planted near top-speed? Can you say how much the cabin raises as the drag slicks grow to full sidewall height? Is the length of the car at it's maximum or could it be any longer? Can the wheelie-bars be enclosed? These are some considerations one would need to appraise where you presently are,and potentially where you could get to.We don't have to tell you how dynamic a dragster is,from launch to the finish line,and your driver's safety is paramount.If your going to "experiment" with the "real thing" you sure want to be safe about it.
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