I am able to break the rear tires loose at 50 mph on the highway, so I'll take
what I can get. :-) I also have to get rid of these damn tires.
Chris Ruggiers wrote:
> Robert Trottmann wrote:
>
> > Have you thought about a spoiler? There are some nice small ones in >J.C.
> Whitney, that don't stick out like an over-done lowrider. The air >pressure
> works to push the rear down. That will probably turn out to be a >summer
> project for me.
>
> I thought Chris Persons was talking about off-the-line traction. At any
> rate, I'd be surprised if (unless massive) a spoiler would have any
> appreciable effect at normal highway speeds. I seem to recall this precise
> debate when Dodge in the early seventies released the Daytona Charger with
> the tall, narrow rear spoiler, and the consensus then (again if I recall
> correctly) was that the benefits of such a small surface area device would
> be insubstantial at anything but superspeedway speeds.
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