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Post by jg74851 on Jan 22, 2010 15:05:20 GMT -7
My son won pack, district, and council last year with a pinewood professor designed car. We know the competition will be much tougher this year, and we have decided to go with the Block to drill holes, and abandon the slots.
Our rules prohibit grooved axles, so we will be using BSA axles prepared with the sub-3 kit.
We have both graphite and MB4hire's secret mix oil. In deciding which to use, I saw a post by Carolina describing his way to use oil. He said to make sure the axles have a single wide groove.
My question is, does using axles without grooves change the equation in favor of graphite? We would appreciate your thoughts on this.
John
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Post by W Racing on Jan 23, 2010 0:34:36 GMT -7
My son won pack, district, and council last year with a pinewood professor designed car. We know the competition will be much tougher this year, and we have decided to go with the Block to drill holes, and abandon the slots. Our rules prohibit grooved axles, so we will be using BSA axles prepared with the sub-3 kit. We have both graphite and MB4hire's secret mix oil. In deciding which to use, I saw a post by Carolina describing his way to use oil. He said to make sure the axles have a single wide groove. My question is, does using axles without grooves change the equation in favor of graphite? We would appreciate your thoughts on this. John For a cub car if you can make two cars (one oil one graphite) and then race the fastest one do that. Of if you have a track to tune on try oil. Otherwise stick with graphite...
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Post by 2FAST4U on Jan 23, 2010 1:10:16 GMT -7
My son won pack, district, and council last year with a pinewood professor designed car. We know the competition will be much tougher this year, and we have decided to go with the Block to drill holes, and abandon the slots. Our rules prohibit grooved axles, so we will be using BSA axles prepared with the sub-3 kit. We have both graphite and MB4hire's secret mix oil. In deciding which to use, I saw a post by Carolina describing his way to use oil. He said to make sure the axles have a single wide groove. My question is, does using axles without grooves change the equation in favor of graphite? We would appreciate your thoughts on this. John so how would they know you have grooves in the axles... are they going to tear the cars apart before the race at tech in... I am not telling you to cheet I am just wondering how they are going to know. this is the problem with a rule like this is because you can not tell if the axles are grooved or not grooved...
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Post by Shade Racing on Jan 23, 2010 6:19:31 GMT -7
My son won pack, district, and council last year with a pinewood professor designed car. We know the competition will be much tougher this year, and we have decided to go with the Block to drill holes, and abandon the slots. Our rules prohibit grooved axles, so we will be using BSA axles prepared with the sub-3 kit. We have both graphite and MB4hire's secret mix oil. In deciding which to use, I saw a post by Carolina describing his way to use oil. He said to make sure the axles have a single wide groove. My question is, does using axles without grooves change the equation in favor of graphite? We would appreciate your thoughts on this. John if the rules say no grooved axles how about after market axles that are not grooved Jewkes & MB have them & awana axles are alot better than scout axles my
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Post by jg74851 on Jan 25, 2010 8:08:26 GMT -7
Thanks for the advice, guys. I like the idea of building two and testing them, but I don't have a test track. Maybe next year. I'm already building two cars, though, because the pack uses an old rough wood track, the district uses a plastic edge-guided track, and the council uses a BestTrack. So, straight tracking for the pack and district, and rail-riding for the council. I think I'll be able to tune using a sloped surface.
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Post by LCD Racing on Jan 26, 2010 9:48:03 GMT -7
Some rules allow for inspection of axles after the race. If you are found to be cheating, you are DQ'd and everyone else moved up in the rankings.
Knowledge gleaned from years of racing under the most draconian rules I've ever seen.
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