Monday, May 3, 2010

Higher torque upgrades

As we approach and perhaps even exceed 3 times the speed of the wind, we're getting rather twisty on our prop shaft. We're now in the 500-700 ft lb range torque wise and car buffs will note that this is similar to the torque output of a modern supercharged Corvette V8 engine.

While Rick and Chris were working on aero upgrades this weekend, I installed the new beefy prop shaft ratchet and milled out and installed a prop sprocket reinforcement plate.