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opnwhlmnd (Offline)
#27 10/4/20 8:48 PM

Originally Posted by yeleyfan76:
Actually I’m still here. I don’t believe for one minute that losing your engine coolant from a hole in the radiator makes you 15lbs light. In a 30 lap race on a dirt track if you are cutting things that close then you are beyond LUCKY or most other times not 100% legal most of the time. Unfortunately I think Usac has always had issues with favoritism towards certain teams. Saying that this one time absolves the NOS teams from it is not fair.

Water weighs 8.34 pounds per gallon most small block Chevy engines with a standard size sprint car radiator hold 3 gallons. 8.34 x 3 = 25.02 pounds. If they are running coolant in the water it raises the liquid weight to around 9 pounds per gallon. If they are running an additive such as Water Wetter instead of coolant it doesn't change the 8.34 pound weight.

If they are using NOS Energy Drink as an additive I don't know the liquid weight change.

Facts get in the way of so many things.

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