What is it?

[Motion Camaro]

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

[John Brown]

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.

[Astock]

Schony,
Was it that Silverglaze/Red '67 GTO?
Theres no way a 2 ft. long antiroll/stabilizer box with a 5 lb ball rolling slowly from one side to another is going to help a 3700 pound GTO.
Also mounted around the grill area of that GTO,there was something funky, maybe for deer?

[Belair62]

Wonder what the caution sticker is behind it ? Strange looking piece of equipment...

[55chevy]

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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..

[Unreal]

I think a box of mercury in my trunk would reduce my rollover chances, because I'd be so scared, I'd slow down!!

[Belair62]

I still don't get it...if I'm making a hard right...and so is 50 extra pounds of crap...where is it giving me better handling

[Schonyenko2]

Astock, I am only telling you what I saw. I read the ad in the paper for a GTO. Went and looked at it. Was amazed as the guy remembered me from when I was in a band. The goat was gold. Had been hit in the rt rear qtr, had some rust damage, and the motor had issues. He opened the trunk and there was this device. I asked him what it was, and that was the explaination I got. I figured it was something out of JC Whitney.

[camarojoe]

It's a flux capacitor.

[SS427]