Originally Posted by
jerry clayton
With John Stewart driving one of the original 8 Cragar 5 Second club------the order listed in the NHRA and books isn't correct order as they have them alphabetical from the Ontario race. I think we were actually 5 th--
There was a harmonic vibration induced tubing bending in the main wing struts-I solved it by placing a balsa wood dowel rod inside the chrmolgy tube to dampen the vibes-------Front wheel pants had low pressure inside them at speed and would suck the air out off front tire valve stems-we solved that by using air craft valve cores with more spring to offset the centrifugal force that caused them to open.