Death Wiggle

[B_Regal Racing]

Entered a car in the MA pro class stock and saw it run on each lane. In the outside lanes in had a mild wiggle, but in the center lane, it wiggled so hard, I thought the track was going to fall over. On my test track, it runs straight as an arrow. Any ideas?

Caveat: I broken the wood holding in one of the rear axles at 5am this past Tuesday morning, two hours before it had to be mailed (overnight ship), so I could not do much to fix it. Still, it seems to wiggle less on the side lanes, but wiggle notheless, but does not on my track.

Happy that it broke 3 seconds though, even with the crazy wiggle...

 

[HurriCrane Racing]

My cars are also more prone to wiggle on the center lanes. May have something to do with the track or the dirty air of having cars running on both sides.

You did happen to fix the wood holding the axel with CA glue? This can effect the surface of the axel.

 

[B_Regal Racing]

duct tape

 

[E.T.Racing]

It's is most likely caused by dirty air from the cars around you. Always test in traffic if you can!

 

[B_Regal Racing]

I only have a single lane test track and I tune them to run on the edge of wiggling. If I were tuning for a race, I would think I could just add a little extra steer to prevent the wiggle. Question is: when I know where the edge is, how much extra would you add to start with? 1/2", 1" or more?

 

[Kinser Racing]

I only have a single lane test track and I tune them to run on the edge of wiggling. If I were tuning for a race, I would think I could just add a little extra steer to prevent the wiggle. Question is: when I know where the edge is, how much extra would you add to start with? 1/2", 1" or more?

Only you can decide how much extra it needs. For me it would be as little as possible without your times dropping off.

 

[B_Regal Racing]

Thought that might have been the answer. Race time will answer the question, but was looking for a possible shortcut; you know, the magic setting. As much banging around as it did, it still broke 3 seconds. I was pretty happy about that.

 

[Obsessedderbydad]

Single lanes don't take into account dirty air from other cars. If you car even has a little wiggle, other cars can make it much worse

 

[IAE Racing]

Thought that might have been the answer. Race time will answer the question, but was looking for a possible shortcut; you know, the magic setting. As much banging around as it did, it still broke 3 seconds. I was pretty happy about that.

Keep in mind where you will be racing and who or what you will be racing against.

 

[B_Regal Racing]

Just place a monsterous order w/John.

He should be able to send his kids to college now.

But for what its worth, there's no substitute for racing. Hoping to build another car and send it in to race in the amateur class this month. I need an apples to apples comparison. You guys have been very helpful getting me to crawl. Its time to walk. Maybe I can then pass some "good" information along.

Besides, what else would anyone be doing with a pile of extra bennies?

 

[Fumbles]

I think I'm going to get a single lane track then install hair dryers every 4 feet or so on opposite sides of the track to simulate running in dirty air !

 

[HMH Racing]

I think I'm going to get a single lane track then install hair dryers every 4 feet or so on opposite sides of the track to simulate running in dirty air !

+1, but the funny thing is I have 1 car that runs better in the middle lanes than it does on the outside. I am hoping a little steer and weight movement will change that. It looked like my kids, when they were 6, driving one those cars at Walt Disney World /images/boards/smilies/smile.gif

 

[GravityX]

...install hair dryers every 4 feet or so on opposite sides of the track to simulate running in dirty air !

Use low speed... /images/boards/smilies/biggrin.gif