Better location for weight
 

Is it better to have ballast straight above the rear end housing as high as you can get it, OR... As far back in the truck as possible? I have heard both...

Re: Better location for weight
 

That depends on what you want the weight to do for your car.
1. work like a lever around the rear end to lift the frontend for weight transfer
2. be static weight over the rearend to load the shocks or suspension
3. do you want it to help with any law of physics you can apply?
I wouldn't be too concerned with where it was as long as it complimented the setup of the car.
Why don't you fix several places for it and move it around to see what the car likes?
Too big a wheelstand, hang it in the front motor plate or front frame horns
Too much tire hit, hang it by the transmission crossmember
ECT.

Re: Better location for weight
 

where would you put it if you were trying to get the car to wheelstand higher

Re: Better location for weight
 

as high and as far back as the rules allow.

Re: Better location for weight
 

Pops (chris3racing) copied an old S&M/Motown Missle design for my Duster that uses a steel bar that's welded to the roll bar down bars in the trunk that puts the weight just behing the rear axle. It has 2 huge bolts welded to it to secure weight right over the rear springs we may also add more bolts toward the center if we need to move weight to the center of the car.

Chris

Re: Better location for weight
 

Why is that desireable? Mine runs quicker, as long as it dead hooks, with the tired only 4" off the ground. If it's spinning I don't try to keep it down, I let it rotate to hook it. I don't know why some let them get so high on purpose. To high costs mine from a couple-to-5 hundredths. Your results may vary. :-)

And Chris, it's legal to bolt weight to the roll cage?