Drilling for axles

[Reggie]

I got one response to this question I posted in a different thread. I am so new to this so please bear with me. I contacted Glenn Jewkes about some tips. I asked him what is the best distance from the bottom of the car body to drill the axle holes. Last year I drilled them the same as the slots that are in the block you get in the kit. I did drill the lifted wheel higher. The car did good for our first try. This year I talked to Glenn before finding out about John. Glenn said to drill the rears 3/16" the DFW 1/16" and the lifted wheel at 3/32". The car did good. What I didn't like about it, because of the amount of bend in DFW axle and it was drilled 1/16 from bottom of the car is it sat high in front. Is that normal? Or should the DFW been drilled higher than the rears because of positive and negative cant? What is the standard?

 

[DerbyDad4Hire]

Drill the DFW 1/16" higher than the rears at least. You can drill the raised wheel the same because the bent front will raise it off the track.

 

[Reggie]

I was hoping you would reply. Thanks John I appreciate it. That to me makes more sense. I hope to get enough of this figured out so I can start racing in boxstock until I can get confident enough to move up to basx and higher. Thanks again.

 

[DerbyDad4Hire]

Race BASX. Don't waste time with Box Stock. You can start with cheaper wheels like BASX Pros and when you get close then grab some Diamonds.

 

[Reggie]

Ok I will. Great races by the way I pretty much watched all of Saturday. I loved every second of it. I hope to be watching my cars some day soon.