Recent content by drward

As of now, I am just looking ahead to next years scout season. But I must admit I am amazed at the speeds you guys are getting out of these little cars. My wife thinks I have gone too far already but I know my son and I have just scratched the surface. So to answer your question, I won't rule it...

Just an update for all those who helped us so much. District derby was Saturday morning. My son averaged 3.186, good for third place, over 9 runs on a 3 lane aluminum “Fast Track”. This is the only track we have ever run on besides the old wooden one at our pack derby. It seemed a little rough...

Thanks Crash, The car we are going to run has the axels with the groove at the bend. The other set were bent without a groove by clamping in a vise and tapping with a small wood dowel and hammer. Both were polished with the DD4H kit. We are going to swap them out because we want to avoid any...

Thanks to this site and all your input we won our pack derby and we are going to our district meet this Saturday!!! If I may trouble you all one more time, should I re-burnish the wheels as reprep or just add graphite? Wheel bores were prepped, per 5 kids site, with Novus 2 polish and burnished...

Thanks so much for the feed back. We are running 2 bent axels on front per DD4H to get 4 on the floor. We have 2 made with groove. We'll do the other 2 without. Our rules state you can build more than one car so we are building ours together and son gets the one that turns out the best. If we...

Gentlemen, I have been studying here for about a year but never posted before. My son and I are building 2 cars for our upcoming pack derby, one for him and one for me. We are building rail riders according to DD4H’s guidelines (thanks). Our district requires 4 wheels touching and no grooved...