Recent content by Speedy

I used a 3-step polish kit from Derby Dust starting with the 'white' polish and then going to a 'yellow-orange' liquid polish before using the supplied graphite. Not sure what is in each medium but we did what we did and it seemed to improve our times from the Pack race. Actually, if we went...

We used "Monkey Dust" Premium Graphite and did burnish the graphite into the wheel bores etc.. However, after so many runs I believe the graphite had ran it's course for the most part. On the races where we tied (on more than one occasion) with the other car we had to run additional heats up...

Thanks all! Our district race was yesterday. Our son had the '4th' fastest PWD car per the timed averages and made it to the 'Top 16' in the finals. Last year we placed in the 'Top ten' finalists and our car was 5th overall. SO, this year we bumped ourselves up another notch for a 4th...

LOL! Naw, it's simply gonna go fast like the car in YouTube video! Actually, it looks kinda like Speed's MACH VI car in that video! I just don't have experience with host pic sites etc. to post a pic - bummer!

http://youtu.be/DvwhIStnDw8 ....this is how our car is gonna run!

Think I'll use the 'Dri-Slide' I got for my mower's linkage then - LOL! ...ALSO, how to post some pics here? Are the newbies allowed to post pics? I noticed I can only post a link for submitting a pic for now. Is this all you can do as a new guy in the forum? P.s. - I like my new alias pic...

Thanks for the follow up and advice! It was a veteran guy who's ranked in the mid-TOP-FIFTY racers in the country that gave me the advice to put the extra weight on the NDFW side of the car. My initial thoughts were to put the weight on the DFW side like you mention. I'm not sure why he felt...

One other thing here... DFW weighing or not?: Where and how much extra weight should we go on the DFW or should we simply make our weights balanced - to the middle of the car? I've heard two ways of doing this and I'm scratching my head wondering which direction to go? I've heard extra weight...

Thanks guys! We'll re-distro the rear axle area weights and see how that pans out for us come the District race. We were trying for a lighter front end over last year's 33 gram front axle weight. I think with this new car we're gonna end up at about 23-24 grams at the front axle weight...

Oh! Yes, wheel base is standard for BSA rules etc.. My main concern here is moving the weights from the rear side of the back axle car forward of the axle. Thus, increasing my front axle weight and moving the COG forward as well. - Thx!

Hey guys! Got an important question here. My boys and I are newbies to the forum here and we have only two years under our belts (including this year) with PWD racing (besides when I placed 1st in my Pack race as a cub scout a few decades ago with totally different rules, car parts etc.)...