Rebuilds?

[Redstone Racing]

Have any of you guys found more speed in a car you rebuilt?

I was working on a couple new street stocks tonight and got as far as I could go until I get my order for the Down4Derby Lead Aero Weights. After I wrapped up I was looking at some of my cars and trying to decide which ones to prep for the next race. The fastest car I've built so far is Speedhawk which ran an average of 2.9693 in the MOTM Championship. I was very pleased with that time as I had set a goal of going sub 2.97 on the old track setup. However, I never liked the balsa fenders I made for the car which were more or less a hack job. I've recently made a couple sets of fenders out of DD4H sugar pine blocks that I had messed up the drill on and they turned out much nicer than the balsa ones. Therefore I decided to break the balsa fenders off Speedhawk and replace them. Well, one thing turned into another 45 minutes later I had completely stripped the car down and removed all the weights. I hope to pick up a little speed with the rebuild but now I'm thinking I should have left well enough alone.

I turned this...

Into this...

 

[GravityX]

Tweak away, you just never know what you'll find in a old build. But some builds were just never meant to go fast... I've got a pile of those.

 

[Kinser Racing]

I have had many cars that I rebuilt and made faster. It's what I do with most of my cars. My SP Kryptonite was built in 2011 and I rebuilt it last year. It's doing pretty good. I usually stick with a car body for a long time unless it's obvious it's a hunka. Wheels and axles and more wheels and axles, refendering and just tweaking things makes the difference for me.(Intentional run-on sentence)

 

[HurriCrane Racing]

Once I build a car, I just cannot bring myself to tear it back down. If it is slow, the boys will have a new toy to play with.
I probably give up too quickly on a car because I enjoy building them. I don't think I have raced a car more than two months in a row. This may change if I ever manage to win!

 

[TRE]

I try to rebuild them still slow

 

[561 racing]

I try to rebuild them still slow

Haha, that's how my rebuilds usually goes too!

 

[BulldogRacing]

I am leaving my fastest car alone and trying to build a faster car to beat it, after it gets beat the old one gets retired and I start the new build to beat my new fastest car.