Due Cento Battery!

[mfg]

Looks to me that the Granatellis notched out the firewall on the R5 Due Cento Avanti to relocate the battery… I wonder why they didn’t relocate it to the trunk where the weight of the battery would have aided traction?

[Geoff]

This is an interesting topic and you bring up placement. Related and affirming what you said, in my build I want to [buy/borrow] some Longacre scales, and my battery placement will be the last item I fit. I'll set the scales and sit in the car, having a friend move the battery around until the cross-weight reading is as good as it gets. It might only be 38 pounds. Considering that's a 76 pound swing (38 pounds in spot A vs. 38 pounds not in spot B), that's no sneezing matter.

I love cornering forces, the Granatellis were hunting longitudinal grip. Both require mass to be set specifically.

[AG-R3]

Didn't Andy have a large amount of chains and sandbags in the trunk during that run?

 

[mfg]

13 hours ago, AG-R3 said:

Didn't Andy have a large amount of chains and sandbags in the trunk during that run?

 

Not sure about that!… However, I remember reading the Piasno Brothers hung twin mufflers in stock location under their Wedge Engineering Chrysler powered  ‘53 Studebaker Bonneville record breaker.. No pipes were connected to the mufflers, but each was filled CEMENT!

[Gunslinger]

I’ve read there was about 200 pounds of chains in the trunk to help with traction in the salt.  It could be an Avanti urban legend.  I doubt if anyone who was there to verify it is around any longer.

[mfg]

16 hours ago, Gunslinger said:

I’ve read there was about 200 pounds of chains in the trunk to help with traction in the salt.  It could be an Avanti urban legend.  I doubt if anyone who was there to verify it is around any longer.

Makes perfect sense… chains, sandbags, or anything else with substantial weight would have been a ‘must’ in the ‘boot’ of a somewhat nose heavy Avanti with a high speed traction issue!