2015 Awana Builds

[chromegsx]

Out of 87 cars they placed 1st and 2nd for two brothers. Older Brother squeaked out the win to go into retirement due to younger brothers inexperience at staging. with the super light front ends this year staging was super critical on our very old rough wooden track. Younger bothers car was probably a good .01 faster on average on our track. 1st place was soccer and 2nd was Million Dollar Bill.

 

[IAE Racing]

Sweet!

 

[Crash Enburn]

Nice cars! And congrats!

 

[down4derby]

Great job!!!

 

[Halo Blu]

Great looking cars! How'd you do the graphics?

 

[chromegsx]

Google images, photoshop, print to card stock, trim to fit, spray adhesive. Usually I'll clear coat too, but ran out of time. They spay adhesive made the job really nice this year. Always had trouble with paper wrinkles and edge curls in previous years because of uneven and excessive adhesive.

 

[chromegsx]

These cars featured many of the tips found from reading these forums and other forums. Even the puma weight idea for which i had to build a custom mold for awana wheels. Could have ended up with 3/8" comcom, becuase of these but dialied back a bit. Big thanks to the community built here and and across the internet. For some reason it just hit me what could have resulted in the difference on average speed between cars. There we're a couple possibilities, but I think it had more to do with my reprep process. I did one thing different. But can't remember exactly which car I did what to. /images/boards/smilies/frown.gif anyway one thing that baffles me is the drift I put into these cars to get them somewhat stable. both cars started the night with 24" in 77" which is almost 9" in 48". I've read some have never put more than 6" in a car. But this I assume is on a good track.

 

[BulldogRacing]

Great jog, congrats on the race. The stuff we learn here is amazing!

 

[Papa V Racing]

Very Sweet!!!

 

[GravityX]

Looks like a million bucks! Nice score on the 1st and 2nd places.