Lets see some pics of your weight ballasts
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Lets see some pics of your weight ballasts For those of you that run index and weight classes, lets see your ballast set up to control weight requirements or ET control.
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Don't have pictures handy. The best & most common way I've seen is square tube with lead shot. You can make them single weight or adjustable.
You weld 2 small thru tubes for bolts to where you can bolt to chassis. I don't like clamps or brackets. The thru tubes will never break or come loose. If you want adjustable, then you weld in a cap, like a rear end fill cap, works good. Hopefully someone will have photos for you.
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Don't have pictures handy. The best & most common way I've seen is square tube with lead shot. You can make them single weight or adjustable.
You weld 2 small thru tubes for bolts to where you can bolt to chassis. I don't like clamps or brackets. The thru tubes will never break or come loose. If you want adjustable, then you weld in a cap, like a rear end fill cap, works good. Hopefully someone will have photos for you.
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If I remember correctly Texas Speed used some ballast in their Red Z28 in 2004 at the race at US-41. I think they were tractor weights and they had them behind the rear bumper. May ask Jason or Trevor.
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I'm sure I can fab something up that will work fine and be legal. I was just hoping to get to see some existing ballast setups.
I have a system that is very effective, but it ain't pretty.lol.
I have a system that is very effective, but it ain't pretty.lol.
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Jay send them to me at james.day007@sbcglobal.net. I'll host them.
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LOL I built a box tube that has been capped on both ends with a fill plug. Empty it weighs 22 lbs. I can fill it with lead shot to approx.75 lbs.It bolts into the original rear bumper location.
Hi Jay!!
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Some of my buddys would run lead bars with holes drilled through them to mount in certain locations, changing the weight was just running bigger or smaller bars of lead.
They would profile the bars to certain weights and stamp them, then just unbolt/bolt in other weight bars. I think some of the bars were 50 pounds, they are pretty big.
You could use depleted uranium that's heavy
They would profile the bars to certain weights and stamp them, then just unbolt/bolt in other weight bars. I think some of the bars were 50 pounds, they are pretty big.
You could use depleted uranium that's heavy
I used 10" x 4 3/4" weight machine bars that weighed 10lbs apeice. I bolted them in the rear inside the car over the axle with 1/2" allthread rod. I had 200lbs of them in the car...LOL ! Looked like a jungle Jim back there but it worked.
GM High Tech had a picture of the weights in my car in the article they did on the LS1Tech Eastcoast Shootout in 2005.
GM High Tech had a picture of the weights in my car in the article they did on the LS1Tech Eastcoast Shootout in 2005.
