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Thread: Who sells legal weight ballast for race cars??

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    Default Who sells legal weight ballast for race cars??

    looking to find someone in atlanta that sells ballast/lead for race cars.... anyone?

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    For the Z4?

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    Just make a weight box and put lead inside it. Or bolt weights to the floor. It should be legal.

    Pegasus racing I believe has some
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    Yeah i've seen weights bolted to the floor.

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    Yeah, weights bolted to the floor should be legal. I've seen a lot of people with them and never seen anybody not allowed to compete. Most rulebooks don't really specify what type of weight it has to be, they just state that it has to be securely fastened.


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    summit does i believe.

    we just used weight boxes when we had a race car.
    Quote Originally Posted by Echonova View Post
    And I do drive a Miata, so I am gayer than a three dollar bill...

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    cool thanks guys.... not for my car simon another NASA guy that is going through comp school at RA in August.

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    Ohhhh cool gotcha.

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    call OPM Autosports.
    They will sell you the weights they use. square steel plates weighing 25 or 17 pounds each.

    OPM Autosports • 2420 Oak Street West • Cumming, GA 30041 • (770) 886-8199

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    chris is that your car in the sig? If so, more picsss
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    It is, he was out at the last NASA event, I was flagging while he was having fun.

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    all the pics can be found on my myspace page... have not gotten around to putting them all in a photobucket account or anything...

    Myspace.com/Chrissmith84

    also the gopro video.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn3kcfCNxsU

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    Quote Originally Posted by simontibbett
    It is, he was out at the last NASA event, I was flagging while he was having fun.
    soon its funny because we have been at the track many times together and yet I still don't think we have met. Chuck and I went searching for you at the Ferrari Challenge but couldn't find ya.

    Prob seen you walk right by me or even said hello and didnt know it was you. Next event stop by the Fandango Racing trailer and say whats up... Its green and has Drew's silver M3, mine and Chucks BMWs parked out front.

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    start jumping on those curbs boy! lol. As dumb as it sounds, using the curbs at road atlanta is worth a few seconds.
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    hehe yeah in August that is one thing i will mainly work on is using the whole track. In that video i had DSC on so i basicly just was balls out through the turns with no worries on losing it. I was too fast for turnins forcing DSC to kick in on exit. In August though the DSC is gonna be off and I will focus harder on getting in tight on turn in and smooth exit to far end of the track. With the DSC, as i was hitting the apex the DSC would kick in and slow me down forcing the car to the middle of the track.... sucked because i would be on the throttle and the car would hesitate a few seconds coming out of the apex.

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