<VV> front spoilers - great except high crosswinds - Use $4 Sandboxplay sand 50lbs Lowes/H.Depot

[J R Read_HML]

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Later, JR
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'61 Rampside Standard 4/110
'65 Monza Convertible 4/140
'66 beater 500 Coupe "icemobile" 4/140 (50%)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tamias Metis" <korvayrouille66 at yahoo.com>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2007 9:55 PM
Subject: <VV> front spoilers - great except high crosswinds - Use $4 
Sandboxplay sand 50lbs Lowes/H.Depot


> Re:  front spoilers  /high crosswinds       -   My '66 vert has the 
> factory spoiler  but the spoiler (air dam  or whatever they are called) 
> doesn't do any good when you are travelling in a certain direction (as on 
> a stretch of interstate)  and the car is battered by high crosswinds.  The 
> lack of weight on the front end of the car makes it a handfull.   This 
> might not be the correct way to deal with this problem but this is what I 
> do:  three 50 pound  bags of  children's sand box sand (unopened original 
> plastic bag)  placed in the trunk.   These plastic 50 lb  sand box sand 
> bags cost approx $4 each at Lowes / Home Depot.   Just tape over the small 
> holes in the bag with a little packaging tape so you don't get any more 
> than a tiny bit of leakeage.   Place in the trunk on very windy days, 
> remove when not necessary.  Three bags might only be necessary during 40+ 
> mph crosswinds.  One or two might be right for you.   This works for me. 
> In fact I always  have two bags in my
> trunk (100lbs)  at all times  at the bottom front of the trunk   since I 
> like the added weight  and  it allows a higher tire pressure on the front. 
> The downside is that  very slow speed tight turning such as manuevering 
> away from a parking space will require more steering effort,  this will be 
> additionally harder if you have very wide (non stock) front wheels or are 
> using a smaller than stock steering wheel.   The sandbags are a cheap 
> solution and it works.  Do Not use bricks,  barbell weights,  old intake 
> manifolds  as weight in the trunk.  While this type of weight will 
> certainly work,  however in the event of an accident this solid material 
> will likely remain more or less solid while the relatively thin plastic 
> sandbags are more likely to break and disperse some of the energy---so you 
> DO NOT want to wrap or mummify the sand bag in duct tape, etc.     Hope 
> this info is helpful.                Tamias   Metis
>
>
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