Awana Grand Prix sub 3s

[Rocket car]

I built my 1st awana car and had trouble getting it under 3sec. . I drilled exactly the same as I drill my pro cars. Are the wheels themselves are to soft to go sub3? Has anyone gone sub 3 and what did you do to accomplish this? Keep in mind I have been racing pro for about 6 months. So I know what I'm doing. I think!!

 

[Crash Enburn]

I've been racing AGP and PWD for ~6 years now. We have yet to get our AGP cars to be as quick as the PWD cars. We took 1st in both AGP and PWD last year, but the AGP car was consistently a couple hundredths slower than our PWD cars.

Our AGP race is in two weeks, so I'll be experimenting again and looking for speed.

BTW, in answer to your question, the AGP wheels are definitely softer and your guess as to the speed problem sounds pretty likely to be the case.

Good luck to you!
- Eric

 

[Rocket car]

I'm constantly in the 3.02s that's .05 slower that my street stocks. With everthing being done the same way, just using awana wheels. I thought it might be even faster than my SSs because the wheels seem lighter. Big disappointment! !

 

[TRE]

Did you extend the wheel base on this awana car

 

[Rocket car]

yes,same as my pro cars.

 

[Guest]

Hey Rocket,

Just talking too much as usual.

I hope you don't mind an idea I just had.

Awana wheels are totally foreign to me, but perhaps by freezing before polishing?

Just tossing the idea out there.

Nice job over the weekend.

 

[Rocket car]

Hey Rocket,

Just talking too much as usual.

I hope you don't mind an idea I just had.

Awana wheels are totally foreign to me, but perhaps by freezing before polishing?

Just tossing the idea out there.

Nice job over the weekend.

I did alot of research and nowhere does it say freeze before polishing. Freeze before cutting, yes because the wheels are soft.

 

[Guest]

I see.

Perhaps a clue!

 

[Guest]

yeah. You are right

 

[Rocket car]

So I'm guessing is that no one has gone sub 3 with these wheels. The track I test on is extremely close to Johns track. I probably could have gone sub 3 with back wheels reversed though. Just learning about these kind of cars and how to make them fast.

 

[TRE]

what do u mean by reversing the back wheels..cant them the other way

 

[Rocket car]

what do u mean by reversing the back wheels..cant them the other way

Cant the same way, but turn the wheels inside out. But you need spacers for this which is illegal for our race.

 

[Rocket car]

Congrats to my niece for winning her awana race. 3.02 was fast enough!!!! No cars within .05!!!!!

 

[DEW36]

Sweet!! Congratulations!!

 

[gragner66]

our car ran in the 2.6 sec avg times the first race we took it too