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Chute weight.

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crider:
I watched a guy with an old Vega funny car go into the woods somewhere around 100mph several years ago. He had pulled his chute off and left it laying in the trailer. Then proceeded to bust a brake line with rear brakes only. The car was totally destroyed, if he had a chute on there at least it would have been a lot slower when he ran out of shutdown area.

coupemerc:
The total weight of the 4 line chute, chute pack and pop chute on my car is just under 5 lbs.

wideopen231:
 5 lbs with careful shopping can cost around 500 bucks to shave off and only .005 in 1/4. Risk to reward ratio ,sounds like bad investment IMO.

retroboy:
I only go to eighth mile tracks and have just upgraded my brakes. The car is currently in bits it's started to pick up a few extra bits and pieces (as they do) so I'm just asking myself what I can get rid of. A parachute I never use - see ya. Couple of surplus cables and wire - bye bye. I had some starting and stalling issues while sorting my one off injection so fitted a battery - ugly up front so I hid it out back among my wheelie bars. Added weight to the front axle to counter the battery position. Starting stalling issues sorted so time to go back to a plug in battery and get rid of 60 lbs of unsightly fat - you getting the picture? Anything I don't need is going in the bin. Anything I hit with the hole saw I'm hitting, and thing I've made from steel that I can replicate in aluminum like my shifter. will be happening. I'll weigh everything up when I'm done just to see.
Cheers 

THE FRENCHTOWN FLYER:
Why not do a back-to-back test, removing and adding the weight of the chute, and report the difference in e.t. to us? I'd be interested to know.
I kept the chute on my altered when we went totally to eighth mile Super Pro racing at the tracks I run for the Kool factor it gives it.

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