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Originally Posted by bjohnsonsmith
How big would the air bottle need to be and is there enough room on board the car to fit one?
CART previously and now IndyCar use an air-jack to raise the car during pistops but the air comes from an outside source as there isn't the room for an air bottle.
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At its crudest BJ, you could use two telescoping tubes about a meter long by 75mm 39" x 3") in diameter. On activation the one tube would slide out of the other forming a total length just shy of 2 meters. If the ram was run at 45 bar at full extension it would move a 2000kg object. It should easily to make the ram self contained with the reservoir in the smaller cylinder, this would mean that the reservoir is extremely well protected.
The car would have to be modified to accept a 75mm cylinder 1000mm upright behind the driver's seat.
Plus canopy.
Oxy acetylene set's oxygen cylinder runs at about 140 bar.