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- Sat Mar 20, 2010 12:54 pm
- Forum: Car & Semi-Truck Construction
- Topic: Left to Right COG
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8993
Re: Left to Right COG
Ditto what they said. 7/8 is still conservative on that track, but with great prep and setup can still be very fast to the finish.
- Sat Mar 20, 2010 10:48 am
- Forum: Planning, Preps & Running the Race
- Topic: Trophies
- Replies: 23
- Views: 24158
Re: Trophies
I believe I agree with you Darin. The main thing for us has been to recognize design at all and to put it on equal footing with racing. Now that the Pack has accomplished that, I believe the next logical step is to eliminate award restrictions between racing and design. The only concern that gets vo...
- Sat Mar 20, 2010 10:38 am
- Forum: Planning, Preps & Running the Race
- Topic: Containing the wiggle at 5/8" com
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10921
Re: Containing the wiggle at 5/8" com
What details did I not share that you are interested in? Well, relevant rules restrictions (like no narrowing of the body), and specific camber used at each wheel, come to mind....it would be nice to confirm drift setting. Without narrowing the body, some neg camber in the rears with some creative ...
- Sat Mar 20, 2010 7:57 am
- Forum: Planning, Preps & Running the Race
- Topic: Containing the wiggle at 5/8" com
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10921
Re: Containing the wiggle at 5/8" com
Assuming that your drift on an alignment board is between 2 and 3 inches...you shouldn't be over or under steering due to incorrect toe with a 5/8 inch COM. You haven't shared some details, but I would look at keeping the wheel gap consistent and small. Rather than using gap to keep the rears off th...
- Sat Mar 20, 2010 7:40 am
- Forum: Car & Semi-Truck Construction
- Topic: An Alternative Rail Guiding Alignment Process
- Replies: 41
- Views: 21566
Re: An Alternative Rail Guiding Alignment Process
Because most 3-wheel cars are not symmetrical, just pivoting an arm from one side to the other does not maintain a target weight distribution. I suspect that is not very important in alignment, but I think that I need to "stay pure" during development, lest I pollute the stats! If it turn...
- Sat Mar 20, 2010 6:53 am
- Forum: Planning, Preps & Running the Race
- Topic: Trophies
- Replies: 23
- Views: 24158
Re: Trophies
By Rank + Open 1-3 Trophy Race 1-3 Trophy Design (Boys vote) Turtle Trophy (slowest avg w/ no DNFs) Note: Race trophy winners are excluded from competition slate in the Best Design vote unless they choose to pass on the race trophy. This year we had a boy who gave up a race trophy to remain eligible...
- Fri Mar 19, 2010 11:34 pm
- Forum: Car & Semi-Truck Photos
- Topic: *5 J's* 2010 Stable
- Replies: 16
- Views: 15286
Re: *5 J's* 2010 Stable
I'm liking that Wolf / BSA 2010 car to take the prize. Good looking finish too.
GL,
K
GL,
K
- Fri Mar 19, 2010 11:23 pm
- Forum: Car & Semi-Truck Construction
- Topic: An Alternative Rail Guiding Alignment Process
- Replies: 41
- Views: 21566
Re: An Alternative Rail Guiding Alignment Process
Personally, I like the ability to add incremental "heavy" weight to optionally "stess" the car thus accounting for full load under g-force through the transistion. An assortment of lead fishing weights from the sporting goods store works nicely. One arrangement that seems useful ...
- Fri Mar 19, 2010 10:54 pm
- Forum: General Car/Truck Racer Topics
- Topic: Two 1st place finishes at districts....
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9538
Re: Two 1st place finishes at districts....
The big council races are just awesome.
GL,
K
GL,
K
- Fri Mar 19, 2010 10:52 pm
- Forum: Car & Semi-Truck Construction
- Topic: RR on Long Track
- Replies: 22
- Views: 13554
Re: RR on Long Track
Excellent! Congrats.
K
K
- Fri Mar 19, 2010 7:54 am
- Forum: General Coordinator Topics
- Topic: Just need to vent...
- Replies: 14
- Views: 16447
Re: Just need to vent...
It seems to me a noisy data stream is just as likely to cause erroneous results, if not more so, than intermittent power loss in the middle of a heat. Picture this: Three wire data connectons on degraded 50-100 foot long cat 3 or worse telephone wire, taped together with ungrounded two-wire 50 foot ...
- Fri Mar 19, 2010 7:13 am
- Forum: Car & Semi-Truck Construction
- Topic: Bore prep
- Replies: 130
- Views: 225902
Re: Bore prep
Best wishes on the race!!!! Thanks man!! It's been a very stressful past 2-3 weeks with being very busy at work and staying up to midnight/1am to get stuff done. I can't wait to get onto other important things (income tax!!). You'll forget all about the long nights on race day...and you'll miss it ...
- Fri Mar 19, 2010 7:07 am
- Forum: General Coordinator Topics
- Topic: Just need to vent...
- Replies: 14
- Views: 16447
Re: Just need to vent...
Just thinking about this I wonder if there also could have been a data communication error. Similar to having a poor serial connection, com port contention, improper parity bit setting, or even just a intermittent UART-like component failure. Bad or noisy communications or physical data communicatio...
- Thu Mar 18, 2010 8:46 pm
- Forum: Car & Semi-Truck Photos
- Topic: *5 J's* 2010 Stable
- Replies: 16
- Views: 15286
Re: *5 J's* 2010 Stable
Beautiful fleet! Well done. Yes, we have never hesitated to refill and redrill if the holes don't pass muster. Never have whittled through it though...we just opt for dowel or round toothpick + elmers wood glue. But, the main thing is you didn't just settle and you've now "done your best"!...
- Thu Mar 18, 2010 7:19 pm
- Forum: Planning, Preps & Running the Race
- Topic: Displaying All Rankings and Times to Everyone after the Race
- Replies: 11
- Views: 12168
Re: Displaying All Rankings and Times to Everyone after the Race
In our neck of the world complete race data and stats are available on the web for those that are interested, of which there are a fair number. There is no attempt to scrub or anonymize the data (reported and zipped into a spreadsheet format. Council also publishes unabridged data and summaries too....