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That has to be the fastest R series? 
I remember Ron Hall way back in TW packin ballast into his mufflers. Not only did it add weight it also deadened the noise a little. I know too little weight and a vehicle could quite possibly get into doing a Lindy Hop with the rear end, particularly when air starts rushing in underneath. I come from the angle of having the stock components still in the truck. Surely I know he did not break the 200 mph barrier with the bench seat and Climatizer still present in the cab [
)]. That to me reminds me of a few of the guys I used to know who were God's gift to racing, who raced down the freeway with a trunk full of stereo equipment[)]. It confounds the mind to have something onboard that won't give an advantage in performance, or it's installed in all the wrong places. What I was gettin at was the truck was probably stripped of the unneeded items, and it lost unnecessary weight in the process. Of course adding weights where needed shifted the bias and added weight where the traction was needed the most.
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