Derby Talk

That does make sense and thank you for the insight. As it turns out, after modifying our existing cars for the districts, we learned that others did not and were still running canted 3-wheel rail riders. The boys were ok with how we did given the circumstances, but we got clobbered pretty hard where...

In between pack races now, waiting for my oldest Son's race to start. Trying to decide whether to remove some graphite as we have 5mins of pit time before the race starts in about an hour. My youngest Son's car just got 4th at districts and we are pretty happy, but what was weird is that it got fast...

Thanks for the info, ironband! The Revell wheels should come this week and I'll definitely be weighing them to compare to the black ones from the kit. Ultimately though, it's up to the boys whether we use the colored ones or not. I'll just have to explain the disadvantages and let them decide. I had...

Hi All! First post here but we have followed advice that we read here as well as other online sources to build our first cars, one for each of my two boys. I wanted to say Thanks for all of the awesome info here! :bigups: We started by baking the blocks for 4hrs at 250deg. Weighed before and after, ...