Estimating Vehicle Weight - Calculated Industries Hot Rod Calc 8703 User Manual

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1. Next, enter vehicle weight, and your actual ET and MPH, the
Wind Speed, and if available, Wind Direction, to calculate how
the wind effected your speed and time:
KEYSTROKES
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2. Calculate the corrected ET and MPH
KEYSTROKES
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(Corrected ET)
(Corrected Speed)
Repeated presses of
outputs, starting with the Wind Speed input.
So, if you were to re-do your run, everything being the same
except the wind conditions at the time of your recorded ET, you
would run a 13.281 at 105.85 MPH.

Estimating Vehicle Weight

Often, a racer will try to figure out what a particular race car's
weight is or what Horsepower is required to achieve a recorded ET.
For this example, first clear the memory on your calculator,
including temporary and semi-permanent entries.
KEYSTROKES
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32 — H
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(Wind speed)
(Wind direction)
will toggle back through the inputs and
C
ALC
LBS S 3840.
ET S 13.85 S
SPEED S 102.304 MPH
WIND S 30. MPH
WIND° S 5. °
WIND S 30. MPH
ETc 13.281 S
SPDc 105.85 MPH
ALL CLEArEd
DISPLAY
DISPLAY
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