New guy here. Hello to all you fellow pwd addicts! Rule says axles can not be smaller than .084. Would it be an advantage to go smaller? I would think the wheels would wobble.
Axle question
- Thread starter Racaholic
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You'd find speed in a smaller axle only if you could find wheels with smaller bores. I've always wondered why they have that rule also.
A long long time ago, someone clever filled up the bores with epoxy, drilled small bores and ran a needle axle car and just creamed everyone. Most inspectors can't tell if the wheel got epoxy and a re-bore, but they can look for needle axles, and that morphed into a lower limit of 0.084 that many cars would actually fail when folks get carried away in sanding the axles , but the axle where the judges can see it is still OK.
It would be really cool to see a history of rule implementations with stories and reasoning. Always been a sucker for stories like that.
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