Goat_Boy said:
Opa, honostly I have found that bearings, whether 5,6 or 7 ball, mean very little in the performance of a bearing car. I use to think I had to buy 50 bearings to pick and find the best 6 for a build. Now I buy (6) bearings and that's what I run. Bearings are produced down to millionths of an inch and I can sure find other parts of my cars that could use the extra attention than trying to find another bearing a millionth of an inch better /images/boards/smilies/smile.gif The bearings John sells have always worked great for me. I recently got a sponsorship with Boca Bearings and thus have switched over to run their products. My bearings are currently 6 ball.
Ian
FYI: I have maybe 30+ bearings. I have my own bearing test (i.e. individual bearings). Just this week, I tested all of them individually, after completely flushing them out with fluid and compressed air. I found about 8 that spun way above average, 6 that I couldn't get a decent spin at all (even after going thur the cleansing process severl more times), and the rest about in the middle. For fun, I put the best six in Spyder, then next best in White Lightning, and the balance in a spare car. My earlier spin test proved out, even when I switched the sets from car to car. I.e. the best six were the fastest, no matter which body they were in. Oh yes, several of my bearings were 6's. They tested amount the lower 10.
BASED on my results, I have often wondered, but will never know, what might happen if I were to test something like 150 bearings. (lets see, 150 times 10 dollars each? Oh yeh, out of site except for Billl Gates.
