Snapping Monster

[Skippy Kicky]

Here is my new Street Stock, a clone of QT's Yellow Belly. It is fast, but not fast enough to catch up with QT or LightninBoy... (yet).

I drilled this car with the silver bullet, and D4D's XY fence.

I owe John a huge thank you for the amazing products he sells. I couldn't make near as nice cars without him. I used a sugar pine block, 92X Pro axles, V3's, Gee's, and tungsten all purchased from Derbydad4hire. I prepped this bad boy with red rocket, kiss, jig, and Derbydad's Krytox mix.

Thanks to everyone on this forum for the camaraderie and good information. A big thank you is owed to Joel for selling me a car that I have learned so much from. Not only that, but he is always so helpful with questions I have and offering advice.

Special thanks goes to John, Joel, Chris, Fank, Jason, Scott, Scott and Ian for help with tools everything I've learned from you guys!

 

[Kinser Racing]

Love it Skippy! Nice work!

 

[Crash Enburn]

Nicely done, Skippy!

 

[down4derby]

Very nice car!!!

 

[GravityX]

Nice looking car.

 

[texastornado]

Very nice Skippy, hope it runs good for you.

 

[TRE]

Nice Skippy

 

[down4derby]

I just re checked your stats for that car and it is sick fast. Congrats!!!

 

[Chief]

Outstanding build! Very nice Skippy!!

 

[B_Regal Racing]

A big thank you is owed to Joel for selling me a car that I have learned so much from. Not only that, but he is always so helpful with questions I have and offering advice.

Out of curiosity, what did you pick up from the purchased car? I have in the past considered buying someone's car to dissect it, but they usually command a good amount a good price. So far, I read, build, test, take notes, and trash as part of my "scientific method."

 

[Skippy Kicky]

Thanks for the nice comments everyone.

 

[Skippy Kicky]

A big thank you is owed to Joel for selling me a car that I have learned so much from. Not only that, but he is always so helpful with questions I have and offering advice.

Out of curiosity, what did you pick up from the purchased car? I have in the past considered buying someone's car to dissect it, but they usually command a good amount a good price. So far, I read, build, test, take notes, and trash as part of my "scientific method."

I did pay a substantial amount for the car, but it was worth every penny. I would have spent way more trying to figure it out on my own and was able to see how it ran on my track. I paid close attention to weight placement and COM, wheel base, General constriction of the car, etc... I was able to inspect the axles (polish / DFW axle bend angle) and wheels so I could prep my own as closely as possible, then see how close I could get it to running the same. Once I got the car running the same times with my own prep I knew I was on to something.
Yellow Belly has always been one of my favorite cars to watch, so it is an honor to own it! I think I slowed it down on that last race, so it will be getting some new wheels for the next one. It got me into the finals, but I never planned on running it at the finals unless I could build my own that was equally fast.
I was happy with how Snapping Monster turned out and am now onto trying to make a second clone.

 

[The Iceman]

looks fast!!!!

 

[Skippy Kicky]

Before the last race started I thought I would put it on the track to see where it was at and it ran a 2.950 without traffic. I was grinning ear to ear with excitement! I don't know if my calculations are correct or not, but that means I need to get it running a 2.946 on the league track without traffic to roll next to QT and Lightnin Boy.

I ran a .935 on my track, so does that mean I need to get it to a .931, then the .92_ to attempt a win?
I don't know if there are exponential variables that I would need to consider?

I've only got a small window to work on getting it there because I'm going to school full time this next semester.