42 foot best track help

[Pinewood Outlaw]

Tonight we was setting up our 42 foot best track with the lift/leveling kit for tomorrow's District race at our local mall. The floors were horribly unlevel to the point where I had a upward bow where the starting section mates to the curve section. I raised my leveling feet on the start lane as high as they would go and still had this upward bow at said joint. To fix it to a level transaction between the seems I had to move the stand that holds the start lane down track by roughly 2.5 inches.

My question is anyone have any idea how much more steep the angle is and if they think times would be faster by say .05

 

[Thinkin'Bout Racin]

I think it will be impossible to say ... without placing an angle finder on the hill section and averaging several locations, we have no way of knowing what the hill angle is. If the floor was low under the start end, you may have only set the hill at the "normal" angle ( ~27*) when you moved the start stand. Without knowing how the floor is/was we would be just guessing.

Did you check the run angle on the flat sections of the track? Also, was the track leveled side to side?

 

[Pinewood Outlaw]

Yes was leveled side to side and track also level down the length with just ever so slight downhill (bubble still well within limes).

Only had one bad experience during testing. My daughter's car with only one race under its belt(Pack race)....one of her rear Dynasty Rage wheels broke on the second pass!! Don't know why ss there are no rough spots on track.

 

[HurriCrane Racing]

Same response for your similar post in another thread.

For a hub to break out of a Rage wheel is very unusual. I can see it happening rather easily in a Mid America wheel or a Street Pro wheel. But a Rage wheel has very little weight removed from the inside part of the wheel. Either the car crashed in the stop section, was dropped or there is a chance that there was a issue when the wheel was molded.

 

[Pinewood Outlaw]

After thinking things over and contacting Best Track both of us have come to the same conclusion.

I did not change the angle....

The curve section is set during manufacturing. Since the bottom curve and first straight section joint is square and leveled during each set up then the top of curve angle will be normal. When I set up for District and the floor was so low at the starting section that where it joined top of curve to created a upward bow at said joint...so bad when placing a 2 foot level across it would rock back and forth like a see-saw. All I did is move the stand under start section to make this joint level with the normal angle that is build into the curve.

 

[Charles Studer]

Yes was leveled side to side and track also level down the length with just ever so slight downhill (bubble still well within limes).

Only had one bad experience during testing. My daughter's car with only one race under its belt(Pack race)....one of her rear Dynasty Rage wheels broke on the second pass!! Don't know why ss there are no rough spots on track.

I had two new wheels, one green and one red both come apart exactly like that.....came from my axle holes being too tight, not using a tuning groove to start the axle out and Evenly "working" it out to be able to grab the axle head.....both were stock..... thinking that was the same week I replaced my bits....