What is it?

**Mr70** · #1 01-10-2005, 09:10 AM

Listen to Schony Man,he knows what he speaks..Soylent Green is people!

Schonyenko2 · #2 01-10-2005, 09:20 AM

I was younger, and prettier then.

DSYenko · #3 01-10-2005, 09:24 AM

He had a way with the ladies!

**Mr70** · #4 01-10-2005, 09:58 AM

I really don't think that trunk item was part of the GM RPO-BO7 police package.
I just pulled some Ambulance & Police Brochures from 1967-73 & none of them mention it.Just springs & suspension etc.,but no trunk mounted Gyro with mercury.
Here's a link.

DSYenko · #5 01-10-2005, 10:04 AM

Was just guessing after someone mentioned police car

**hvychev** · #6 01-10-2005, 10:08 AM

I am just curious as to what a box of Mercury would do to stop your car from flipping over?

**Mr70** · #7 01-10-2005, 10:08 AM

I know..me too.
It's been a long day here & for the Randy Mosses of the world today.
Goodnight.

Motion Camaro · #8 01-10-2005, 04:03 PM

<font color="blue"> WERE OUTTA HERE MAN. </font>

**John Brown** · #9 01-10-2005, 05:41 PM

Ok, this 50 or so pound piece of ballast is really an anti skid device. There's a hunk of iron on the inside of that box, mounted on ball bearings, with springs on each end of the iron hunk to keep it centered. When the car goes around a hard corner the weight moves in the box and then the springs push the weight back to center after the car starts to straighten up. It's a inertia deal and it really does do what it's made to do. A friend put one of those things in a drag car years ago. It not only gave him better traction from the added weight, but it made the car stay straighter off the starting line.

55chevy · #10 01-11-2005, 04:33 AM

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Ok, this 50 or so pound piece of ballast is really an anti skid device. There's a hunk of iron on the inside of that box, mounted on ball bearings, with springs on each end of the iron hunk to keep it centered. When the car goes around a hard corner the weight moves in the box and then the springs push the weight back to center after the car starts to straighten up. It's a inertia deal and it really does do what it's made to do. A friend put one of those things in a drag car years ago. It not only gave him better traction from the added weight, but it made the car stay straighter off the starting line.

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Man.. I see and learn something new every day.. no matter how wierd..

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