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Trailer Tires Overheating.
On 11 Nov 2003 04:26:15 -0800, (basskisser) wrote:
(Steven Shelikoff) wrote in message ... On 10 Nov 2003 09:47:11 -0800, (basskisser) wrote: (Steven Shelikoff) wrote in message driver can adjust brake bias from his seat, just a turn of the knob. Something else you've read somewhere and don't know how to apply? Nice. Are you saying that it isn't done? Really? Hell, every Winston cup car now has the ability to adjust brake bias from the cockpit. Anybody that knows anything about racing knows this: this is from Dale Jarrett's crew chief, a little Q and A session on nascar.com: Of course it's done. But the part you snipped shows that you have no idea what adjusting the brake bias does and doesn't do. Question: We hear a lot about the driver's ability to change the brake bias in the car while driving, but they never explain how it actually works and how the driver changes it. At which tracks would they use this more than others and why? ANSWER: You have a brake bias adjustor that adjusts the front to rear brake bias. The driver can manually do that by turning a knob that's located right by the shifter handle. One revolution clockwise would adjust the front and one revolution counter clockwise would adjust the rear. The adjustor changes the bias by about 30 to 50 pounds per revolution. The driver only adjusts the brake bias during a run for fuel burn-off or because the car is pushing or is loose. Still don't think it's done? Still don't think I knew what I was talking about? Yes, I still don't think you know what you're talking about. Because it is not relavent at all in your post where you first brought up adjusting the brake bias. Now that you've looked it up on the web, I'm glad to see that you've learned what it does (well, maybe not learned but at least you can regurgitate a blurb about it) because you didn't know before. Now you can go back and look at the part you snipped to see why it's irrelavent. Now that you've proven that it may be possible for you to learn something, let's see if you can use that power to realize that drivers don't use the brakes "quite a lot" during restrictor plate races. In fact, they avoid using the brakes at all costs because in that type of racing, just a tap of the brakes costs them positions. Steve You idiot! ANYTHING you do in "that type of racing" "costs them positions". But, sometimes things need to be done. If someone, in a Wrong. Driving in line with the pedal to the floor and not touching the brakes does not cost them positions. That's why they do it. drafting situation, hasn't got anybody to get out of line with them, and they are faster WHEN IN THE DRAFT, they will use brakes to keep from hitting the person in front of them. You may not know this (oh, Yup, you really don't know what you're talking about. For instance, did you know that when two cars in a very close draft (i.e., not more then a few feet apart) as they typically are in restrictor plate racing, that the front car is also helped by the draft and can go faster then if it were on it's own? And just how often in a restrictor plate race do you think that a car come up from behind and into a draft fast enougn that they have to hit the brakes? but of COURSE you do!) but aerodynamics is very important. If they mess up the nose of the race car even a little, their chances are not Yup, yet again you don't know what you're talking about. In that situation, many times instead of using the brakes or lifting off the throttle, the driver behind will touch and push the car in front. They do that because it helps both cars. Hitting the brakes will only hurt the driver behind significantly, and the one in front slightly since they won't get the push that they would have otherwise gotten if the car behind didn't brake. good. Now, they brake, as opposed to lifting off of the throttle for reasons anybody associated with racing knows. Apparently that discounts you. I'm still waiting for you to prove your point that they use the brakes quite a lot in restrictor plate races as I have proven that they don't. Put up or shut up. Steve |
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