Recent content by Cobbler73

The only place I have found the clear wheel covers the fast cars have is derby evolution which is closed. where are these available? I was told ddfh but they are not clear. Cant see inside wheel markings with those.

Aligning rears wasn't too bad. I have an old display freezer door that's 20" x 50" thick glass. set it on a cart and leveled it. Ran cars backwards till wheels just drifted out, marked axles, then did the same forward, marked axles again and turned halfway between. Seemed to work good. Both cars...

They were just the matched speed wheels with outside true from Max-Velocity. We polished axles and bores ourselves and then packed with graphite and rolled them back and forth on a glass door laying horizontal to work graphite in. I have the pro body tool and a few of the other goodies. Just...

He was qualified scout and I ran adult open. both graphite. I wish I found this sight before we went. Have learned a ton already.

The cars were both extended wheelbase with stainless grooved axles and stock wheels trued and polished. I drilled axle holes and had rears bent 2 dgrees neg cant and front dom 1 degree neg cant. just aligned rears to drift out both forward and backward. I guess nothing special. I overheard...

My son and I are fairly new to pinewood derby. We both won our pack races(scout and open adult) and our district races. We moved on to mid America in Omaha and that was a different story. best was 2.994. after the fact I weighed the cars and found both were really close to: 1 oz. DFW, 2.6 oz. on...