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Post by DerikX Racing on Apr 23, 2013 20:23:59 GMT -6
Finally built my tuning board, now I need help on how to use it. It is 23”X70” I have it level side to side and a pitch of 3 degrees. I tried to mark a line with a sharpie, but it wouldn’t take so I am going to buy a grease pen unless someone has a better option. I set all my cars up with the front right wheel dominate with that in mind I was going to work from the right of the board over. How much of a drift do I want at 4’ and 5’? Attachments:
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Post by DerikX Racing on Apr 23, 2013 20:27:25 GMT -6
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Post by CycRunner on Apr 24, 2013 0:18:27 GMT -6
Finally built my tuning board, now I need help on how to use it. It is 23”X70” I have it level side to side and a pitch of 3 degrees. I tried to mark a line with a sharpie, but it wouldn’t take so I am going to buy a grease pen unless someone has a better option. I set all my cars up with the front right wheel dominate with that in mind I was going to work from the right of the board over. How much of a drift do I want at 4’ and 5’? My board has lines and drift markings at 4' and 6'. I usually tune my cars at the 6' distance. Typically most of my cars run best with a drift between 4 inches and 8 inches at the 6 feet mark. My Mills Craft car, however, had to have a much greater drift to be stable and it was set at around 4 inches at the 4 foot line. When in doubt I think you would be wise to use more than less drift to insure stability of the car.
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Post by texastornado on Apr 24, 2013 19:40:22 GMT -6
I usually try to set the drift to 3" in 4 ft. and I also run right wheel dominate. One other thing I do on my board is on the right side 1.75" from the right edge I glue a 8" X 1.5" X 1/4" strip to the top. I use this strip to practice my staging method and also gage the drift. Then on the left side I glue a strip 1.5" X 1/4" all the way down the board. With this I can see if I have to much drift in the car. I want the car to be a rail runner not a rail rider. You can run the car from the short strip several times and get an idea on how fast it is. Then run it down the full length rail to see if there is a noticeable difference in speed. Not easy to gage, but if you pay close attention you can tell if it slows down. I not saying this is the best way, but it's the only way I have to tell. Some of the other guys may have a better method as they have been into this league racing much longer than I. If you have other questions just PM me and we can share. Since I don't own a track the tuning board is the only way I have to tune.
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Post by DerikX Racing on Apr 24, 2013 20:04:08 GMT -6
I love the term rail runner over rail rider. After setting up my board, I ran our district camp car and it drifted exactly 4” at the 70” mark. Dumb luck, but I will take it. This car wasn’t tuned to be a rail runner; it just worked out to be one.
I had to read Texas Tornado’s post 3 times before it made sense to me. I apparently have a lot to learn.
I marked out the lines on my board, 3’, 4’, 5’ and 70’ “call it 6’ ” I have messed with a couple of my rail runners trying to tune them and this is going to be a real pain in the azz from what I have seen so far.
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Post by DerikX Racing on Apr 24, 2013 20:17:04 GMT -6
With my team stickers, the feet marked and drift marks. Finally found a use for all the number slickers I had pilling up. Even hung a checkered flag table cloth to make it look pretty. Attachments:
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