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Re: Weight distro considerations, Audi or not.

To: Gross Scruggs <GScruggs@wposmtp.nps.navy.mil>
Subject: Re: Weight distro considerations, Audi or not.
From: shields@tembel.org (Michael Shields)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 20:49:29 -0500
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> On a 4000lb car with 60/40 weight distro, 75lb is only 3% of the mass at the
> front end.  (Actually that calculation assumes all the mass is at an extreme
> forward point instead of actually being distributed along the longitudinal
> axis.)

It assumes that all the mass is concentrated over the axle, actually
-- mass in front of that point will contribute more than its weight to
the front axle, and negative weight to the rear axle.
-- 
Shields.
['86 Coupe GT]

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- Weight distro considerations, Audi or not.
  - From: Gross Scruggs <GScruggs@wposmtp.nps.navy.mil>

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