Recent content by bluhorshue

Just wanted to thank everyone again. My son won the pack race, though afterwards we raced it against our car that couldn't hold the track at districts and were not quite as fast. We'll likely build another car body for districts since we think we can do better, and we know that this car isn't...

Thanks for the help. Rearranged some weight to stay conservative, and moved two blocks. I'd like to think that we did a pretty good job on the rear wheels- even built a jig out of lego blocks to try to get the same hole placement on both sides, but I'm also sure we are nowhere near the...

I think the district track is probably ok, my son's car was the only one that flew off and it was probably build quality that was at fault since we were pretty new to this. Two of the lanes did seem to cause that car problems though. The district track has two aluminum rails that go between...

Fist wanted to say thanks to this forum. My son won his pack race last year using the tips I read here. We built his car for this year using a 10 gram ladder body, covered with monokote trim 2 oz weight behind back axles, and 2 oz right in front of them. Rail runner design with the back...

Wanted to thank everyone here as my son just won his pack race and is on to districts. Couldn't have done it without the knowledge learned here. I did have a concern with the graphite prep (used Zero Friction) though, as the car had to do 10 runs (technical issues required a few races to be...

I searched and couldn't find a topic on this, but for my son's scout build there is no restriction on wheelbase length. While the rest of the rules seem pretty strict. Is there a "best" wheelbase length. I know to put the rear wheels as far back as I can. 5kids on their scout build...

I was hoping to get some advice for my son's cub scout car next year. This year we had the second fastest car in our pack (the fastest car won second at districts, so it was pretty fast for a cub scout car), but were soundly beaten at districts coming in 4th. I think the winner's cumulative...