This time of year my phone rings off the hook and I do my best to talk to everyone. I have wasted way too many calls about putting a pinewood derby car on a treadmill. That ranks up there with bending your rears axles. For you new builders it is important to rely on your common sense when sifting the growing pile of information that is so bad it appears to be some kind of spoof material. The "Engineer" in this particular video makes one think that it is easier to set up a treadmill to test your car on than making a makeshift tuning board. Anyone can make a tuning board in less than 5 minutes. Not to mention what the treadmill is doing to the tread of the wheels.
Please also take a second before you go pounding on all your axles to get them all bent creating a tuning nightmare. What is easier, figuring out which wheel is turning your car when all the axles are bent or pushing the rears in at a cant and having 1 bent axle to steer?
One last thing to you jokers that race at this level and yet still push that gimmick garbage, I am going to send you a bill for my time of having to help people correct the mess you put them in. Quit lying to people just to make a buck or because the goof selling the stuff is your buddy. You do not use the stuff so quit telling people you do.
Please also take a second before you go pounding on all your axles to get them all bent creating a tuning nightmare. What is easier, figuring out which wheel is turning your car when all the axles are bent or pushing the rears in at a cant and having 1 bent axle to steer?
One last thing to you jokers that race at this level and yet still push that gimmick garbage, I am going to send you a bill for my time of having to help people correct the mess you put them in. Quit lying to people just to make a buck or because the goof selling the stuff is your buddy. You do not use the stuff so quit telling people you do.