After you build a car what do you do to squeeze a little more speed out of it?
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How much off the mark are we talking? If the drills are aligned correctly, you don't have a bent axle, wobble in a wheel, etc... then:
I would say first roll it down the tuning board and take notice of how fast it goes. Remove the wheels, blow them out with air to get rid of potential lint. Set them in a dust free container and reapply the jig to your axles. That means spraying them with brake cleaner or something strong, do a once over polish with the selvyt cloth and final axle polish, clean them off again. Hold the can of jig out at an arms length, spray the mist on there just enough to cover the axle. I hold them horizontally and do a half spin as I am spraying. Let them dry for TEN minutes. Use a magnifier to make sure they didn't collect any LINT, because that is your nearly invisible speed killer if you do not do this. If lint got on it, hit it with just enough of an air blast to get it off of there. Do this for all of the axles. Apply just enough oil to the axle to say it made contact with the whole surface. Slide the wheel on. If you think you applied too much oil, just slide the wheel away from the axle head and back. There should be a glob of it there. I just wipe it off with my finger. Try rolling it down the board again and see if there is any difference. It helps to have another car to run next to it for comparison.
I would say first roll it down the tuning board and take notice of how fast it goes. Remove the wheels, blow them out with air to get rid of potential lint. Set them in a dust free container and reapply the jig to your axles. That means spraying them with brake cleaner or something strong, do a once over polish with the selvyt cloth and final axle polish, clean them off again. Hold the can of jig out at an arms length, spray the mist on there just enough to cover the axle. I hold them horizontally and do a half spin as I am spraying. Let them dry for TEN minutes. Use a magnifier to make sure they didn't collect any LINT, because that is your nearly invisible speed killer if you do not do this. If lint got on it, hit it with just enough of an air blast to get it off of there. Do this for all of the axles. Apply just enough oil to the axle to say it made contact with the whole surface. Slide the wheel on. If you think you applied too much oil, just slide the wheel away from the axle head and back. There should be a glob of it there. I just wipe it off with my finger. Try rolling it down the board again and see if there is any difference. It helps to have another car to run next to it for comparison.
Lol...I obviously got a lot more speed on my trip home after Mid-America race. Five days after the race I got a speeding ticket in the mail from Des Moines, Iowa. Apparently they caught my license plate number and speed on one of their highway cameras.
I did not know it was legal to give tickets via automation. I always thought an officer had to observe/estimate the speed of a vehicle for collaboration.
Evidently not the case in Iowa. If I challenge it, I would have to appear in court in Des Moines. That would be another 1800 miles of driving round trip. So I'm thinking it would be cheaper and easier to pay the fine. They probably target out of staters for that very reason.
I don't know how it works everywhere, but here if a car is flagged on camera, an officer reviews the footage and signs off on it, so that meets the rule of having an officer observe the infraction.
If they are using radar, it's often tough to determine which vehicle is the one speeding if there are vehicles around you. For instance, on a freeway with a lot of traffic. Laser is different, but requires you to aim. I think it's just a matter of time before they have robotic systems on busy freeways to run laser.
When we were on our way back from Mid America last year, one of the scout mothers in the car next to me was afraid she got snagged by an Iowa speed cam and would get a ticket in the mail. I told her no way. Not the way other vehicles were positioned around us. No ticket in the mail. That 40 hour radar certification course I took a few years ago is good for something I guess.
When we were on our way back from Mid America last year, one of the scout mothers in the car next to me was afraid she got snagged by an Iowa speed cam and would get a ticket in the mail. I told her no way. Not the way other vehicles were positioned around us. No ticket in the mail. That 40 hour radar certification course I took a few years ago is good for something I guess.
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