Couple Days of Practice

Well I have been going to the track for some practice latly. I really haven't gone to the track and just run battery after battery after battery. So I loaded up my truck and headed up the track and set up my pit area. I started charging batterys and yea I still use stick packs for my sedan. I dusted off the sedan and started looking it over for loose screws broken parts or anything. I didn't find anything, except the tires had a build up of junk on them. After cleaning the tires and taping in the battery I put it on the track started out slow (it has been awhile since I drove it) just keep it between the boards. Thats what I kept telling myself. Afetr a couple laps under my belt I started to go faster and faster. Car was not handaling like I wanted. I remembered I had a spool in the front instead of a diff. The problem I was having was when I cam into a turn the rear end of the car would loose all traction and swing around. I couldn’t drive the car like that I could not get any speed or keep steering. So I took out the spool and replaced it with a diff again. Put it back on the track and WOOOSH the car was flying around the track I was able to keep traction up and steering.

The legendary Scotty came walking past me and asked me how things were going I told him good and asked him if he wanted to try my car and see how I was doing adjusting everything. Since I am new to sedan racing and setups and stuff. So he takes the radio and starts driving it around pulling nice lines and speed. He starts asking me what I had in it like diff, spool, and FDR of the car. He said the set up was really good and everything seemed really nice except my car was not maxing out on the straight away. He said I should change my FDR from 4.0 to 3.8 meaning I should go up a tooth or two. I was currently running a 104 spur and a 44thooth pinion. So I go to the pit and start looking to see what spurs and pinions I have. And the smallest spur I have is a 100 and the largest pinion I have was a 44 and that was on the car. So I go up front and ask if the have any smaller spurs and nope. Then Dave Jacko comes strolling in all dressed up from work and we start talking. I tell him my dilemma and we start thinking in the mean time he has this look of a deer in headlight or a kid in a candy store wanting everything. what he had was an itch to drive my car so I put in a fresh battery and let him take it for a stroll around the track. The lap timer was on and he hears his time 13.7, 13.5, 13.1, 13.0, and 12.7 (I don’t think he can pull that off with his car a 12.7). I can see the steam rising from out his ears. He is getting irritated. I ask him what’s wrong he then proceeds to tell me he can’t get his car to handle half as good as mine. His car swings out in the corners and other stuff. But he does agree with Scotty about the gearing and tells me I should be at a 3.8. He is still irritated about his car verses mine. Well he had to go and then the world famous Paul Lemieux comes walking in with his little boy. I ask him how everything is going and then I ask him what I can do. He said take the 100 tooth and put a 44 tooth pinion on it should work. He looks at my 100 tooth and finds a problem it is too thick the screws wouldn’t work because it would hit the chassis or motor. So he tells me how to fix this problem and pulls out a sheet of sandpaper and tells me to start sanding.

That’s what I start doing for about 20 minuets sitting there sanding but I got it done and I put the car back together to see how that works and WWWWWOOOOOOOOOSHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! the car takes off and has a lot more power than it did before. So now I have to get used to that but I rather have to get used to that then some other problem. Well that’s all for now I will keep you updated on anymore news and remember always keep the rubber side down and let have fun out there.