power window actuators. only problem was that it would bind up b/c (i suspect) they weren't running at exactly the same speed.
edit: d'oh! no hotlinking from Phil's uber-gallery, apparently. you want pics 0528 and 0529 for closeups.
the original plan was to run it though a logic box wired to the TPS, but between the box being a little wonky still and the car having multiple more serious issues, Dave just ran a manual toggle switch into the cockpit.
funny...by the time we got done building the wing, we realized it would likely have been easier to go to an aircraft junkyard and grab a piece of Cessna wing.
RobL wrote:Buzz Killington wrote:Speedycop wrote:I'm still waiting to hear how the debodied Vic did other than the leak factor. Was it glued? Loose? Lap times?
it corners and stops really, really well...better than the MR2, we think. it's neutral and easily catchable if it gets loose. the steering sucks, though; i noticed 2-3" of on-center free play.
it is quick enough but not especially fast in a straight line; part of that is the crap diff (really tough to put power down out of corners), part is the auto tranny (lots of hunting for gears), and part is that it sat in a field for two years before we bought it. Dave set our fast lap at 1:50.8, IIRC.
weird that the MR2 is the "fast" car and the Crown Vic is the "handling" car. the wing makes a difference; flattening it on the straights raised our top speed 5-7mph. with it up on the stright, you could see the downforce compressing the rear suspension.
Everything that Buzz said...
I think that the Vic stops better than the MR2 and has better corner entry grip, but the MR2 had better corner exit speeds. I don't know who set our fast lap - it says lap 6. Our transponder was mounted incorrectly (first time it didn't work like this and I think that the track wires weren't picking up a lot of cars) so I don't think that we got any of Daves laps. So it would have been either Mike or Kurt - I don't know who got into the car after we fixed the transponder.
forgot about that...i think it was Kurt, then. i'm pretty sure we fixed it sometime after my stint. and i wasn't pushing the car nearly hard enough in my first stint to run the fast time; i was mainly trying not to blow it up (remember when the bearings were our main worry? -- LOL).
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