Almost Ready To Race

Now that we're more moved into the house, I've been able to lay down my track and do some work on my cars. I'm hoping to run some more championship races shortly, although each car will have had significant work done on it. That will all be documented here.

To start, the Alfa and the Shell Ford have both been mounted with specially-designed rubber gaskets between the mounting posts and the body. The purpose is to eliminate vibration through the car, and it truly works. This also changes everything regarding body float. No longer do you go from tight to a quarter turn and have a floppy body. There are now varying degrees of softness with the body float will attain, giving it better flow in the corners without so much of a radical shift in body weight. It also seems to improve acceleration, making it smoother and more immediate.

The Shell car has seen significant improvement because of this, and has also quieted down considerably.

The Gulf car is going to be treated differently. It'll have the gaskets in the body and in the pod. If it works and is an improvement, I'll do it to the other cars as well. If not, then it'll only be like that on the Gulf car.

The Track:

I'm keeping the favorite and most recent design through the next race. Here's where it's situated now:

Eventually I'll have a table. Gotta buy the wood first. Until then, back to the rug, which I'm totally fine with for now.

Parts ordered [yet to be delivered]:

• 2mm grub screws
• 3mm grub screws
• 6mm grub screws
• lead weight
• 1m braid
• .6mm spacers