Re: [ihc] Spindle hot-cha-cha

[Howard R Pletcher <n9ads@xxxxxxxx>]

Highly unlikely.  Racing definitely didn't receive that sort of attention
unless you were the sales guy running the program.  This wasn't quite the
same as NASCAR racing in the 1970's where the Big Three automakers built
and homologated special models just to go racing with.

If something like that was needed for racing, they would have had Dana
harden some specially, or make them out of unobtanium or whatever fancy
material was needed, and have the racers bolt them in as opposed to
putting them into production if they weren't needed.  I'm sure whatever
calculations were done showed the loads with 8" rims were high enough
that whatever safety margin that was used was not met without hardening
although the difference from a 7" rim can't be that great.  Probably it
just crossed the line that was specified.  

And Jim's survey says there was probably an ample safety factor built in.

Howard

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 12:57:02 -0500 (EST) Ted Borck <tborck@domain.elided>
writes:
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> Could the hardened spindles have been developed for Off Road Racing?
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> Ted Borck	tborck@domain.elided