<VV> Weight of Air

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Mon Feb 27 15:05:19 EST 2012


So if you fill the tires up with Helium, does it make the car lighter ??? Or should you put Helium in just the rear tires to help the weight balance, and if you do that, do you have to adjust the front tire pressures to compensate ?

This is making my head hurt....

                                    Ed Lindsay
                                     West Florida Corvair Club
                                       <GGG>
----- Original Message -----
From: Ron <ronh at owt.com>
To: corvairduval at cox.net, virtualvairs at corvair.org
Sent: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:52:03 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Re: <VV> Weight of Air

I didn't really care.
RonH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <corvairduval at cox.net>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 11:35 AM
Subject: <VV> Weight of Air


> Information you don't need but related to a recent VV discussion on
> inflating tires:
>
> Weight of a cubic foot of air at 60°F and 30 psi is 0.232 pounds.
>
> So a typical Corvair sized tire increases its weight about 1/3 of a pound
> from flat to full inflation.
>
> Frank DuVal
>
> ps, the hotter the air, the less it weighs at the same pressure.



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