Fun! Fun! Fun!

[Ballistic Racing]

Anyone else have as much fun as I am working with & polishing these #$&@! BSA stock axles for box stock? Lol!!!

 

[HurriCrane Racing]

I hear you! Wheel prep is my least favorite part!!!!

 

[GravityX]

Aren't they a blast?! Any other aspect of the build, I'll take, polishing axles and wheel bores, it's not my forte. I'd assume farm that job out.

 

[M2/S2 Racing]

I actually enjoy the axle and wheel prep. I guess I'm strange like that. I tend to like the small details.

 

[Kinser Racing]

Y'all can pay me to prep your wheels.

 

[bracketracer]

Y'all can pay me to prep your wheels.

Do you charge by the wheel or by the pound? /images/boards/smilies/smile.gif I might have to take you up on that!

 

[Cramjet]

How many times have you burned a groove into the bore and said, "Well, I guess that's my non dominant front wheel"?

 

[Kinser Racing]

Y'all can pay me to prep your wheels.

Do you charge by the wheel or by the pound? /images/boards/smilies/smile.gif I might have to take you up on that!

Per wheel.

 

[Ballistic Racing]

I actually got mine to a pretty good shine...I think they're gonna rip!!!

 

[DURASPANK]

I'm with ramfifty on this. For some reason it's the alignment that can make start talking in tongues. Sometimes it's like I know what I'm doin then other times like I don't have a clue and I'm just tryin to act like I do.

 

[davet]

We spend a ton of time on our stock axles for scouts. We also found the axles to be oblong in shape like an egg in the area where the wheel rides. We place the axles in the body so the shape is laying horizontal (as if an egg were laying on it's side). This give us less toe changes because the wider measurement is front to back. Probably common knowledge but have found some people that didn't measure them to see this.

 

[BulldogRacing]

wouldn't you want the high spots of the axle touching the spots of the wheel that a canted wheel will ride?

 

[davet]

wouldn't you want the high spots of the axle touching the spots of the wheel that a canted wheel will ride?

We always ran the other way. We found the stock axles to be .091" on the high side and .086" on the low side. To us that meant .005" less hub to axle clearance fore and aft and a more accurate alignment. We always bent our axles 2.5 degrees and laying our axles on their sides made alignment easier/quicker. The last couple years we have been canting our holes and the wider portion fore/aft means more accurate alignment there also.

We also thought that having the weight of the car spread out over the wide portion of the axle journal was better. We groove our axles so the friction difference between the high and low side was minimal. As far as friction between the two setups I don't know which is better.

We're running scout races. I don't know if Box Stock allows for grooving or not.

 

[BulldogRacing]

Hey, what ever works for you. Yes you can groove your own axles for BS.

 

[davet]

We've only built 5 cars so take it with a grain of salt.

 

[Kinser Racing]

Hey, what ever works for you. Yes you can groove your own axles for BS.

I think we should call it Box instead of BS. It could end up being a bunch of BS though. lol (lots of love)

 

[BulldogRacing]

You caught that Kinser, LOL!