3 A.M. thoughts

[HurriCrane Racing]

It is more than likely a prototype

Well I'll agree with part of your post. LOL.

 

[Charles Studer]

Yay my first partial agreement for a post! Wait for it....


My first official hyjack attempt....
So does sacrificing weight package density for body thickness increase possible speed benefits? Any takers? Anyone. .... Mojo, Hurricrane, Tre....
I will like my own post if permitted.

 

[mike-E]

Yay my first partial agreement for a post! Wait for it....


My first official hyjack attempt....
So does sacrificing weight package density for body thickness increase possible speed benefits? Any takers? Anyone. .... Mojo, Hurricrane, Tre....
I will like my own post if permitted.

That is my only guess about the "trouble" car. It's possible it was constructed with 3/16" cubes, or maybe even plates. "Thin to win" right?

 

[TRE]

We tried 3/16 back when wheel weights were hot no faster

 

[TRE]

I saw that car live it was 1/4 inch thick

 

[Reecedad]

If you look at Terry's most recent BASX cars I think you'll notice he no longer uses that wheel base and he's considerably faster now. Although I'm speculating I'd imagine terry was looking for a way to move weight back when he built that car.

 

[bracketracer]

Please see my post and explain how what Cash did in that race is possible. As far as I remember that is the only race that particular car was in.

Most every racer offsets the weight cubes towards the DFW side. Back then, some racers were trying to put some of the offset weight behind the rear axle instead of in front. So there may have been two full rows of cubes behind the axle plus one or two more to get the weight distribution he wanted. You don't see that run any more since it wasn't any faster than the default 12 cube setup.

 

[Ca$hRacing]

Ok after searching YouTube for an hour and a half I found the car and the race. The racer is Cash racing and he called the car trouble. After looking at it again the wheels are AT LEAST 3/8" forward of normal. Can ANYONE explain this?edit: skip to 19:57 to see the top view of the winning cars including first place. The wheels are EASILY 3/8" forward of the back of the car.

Guys thanks for the accolades....
That car was built with Cub Scout rules, with intentions of running it at PDDR in the pure stock class.....But dang it was fast, so I made it Basx car!!
4 3/8" WB (1/4" thick) [Glenn Jewkes told me long ago that it done right a short WB car will out run long WB cars, maybe he was right]
7/8" from the rear
16 grams weigh on fdw
.20 oz split in the rears (12 cubes behind rear axle)
93 velocity pro axles (all the way around)
old style wheels 2.4 grams (#5 up front #15 rears Ca$h's cut)
That's all I can remember!
Oh: one other thing, I drilled 3 bodies like that, 2 of those are stilling at APR in the Pure Stock class.
FYI: If I still had that car (I sold It) and with my current prep process, no doubt in my mind, it would run sub 2.945's!!

Terry (aka Ca$h Racing)