Strangebrew Coachworks IV

[historiceng]

Ah, that makes sense, I understand now, thank you for your help...

I'm having a great time building showdown cars here in the evenings :)

Thank you 'Brew.

[slothead]

When a slot car has the pivot point for the guide even with or behind the front wheels that doesn't make sense to me and I think cars scrub off more speed in the corners this way. Whenever possible I mount the guide at least 1/2" ahead of the front axle. Maybe this doesn't matter for magnet racing on plastic track, but on an oval I like my cars to be able to 'step out' a bit in the turns.

That reminds me, wasn't there a post on here awhile back about a guide system that allowed the guide to move from sise-to-side a little? Anyone try or using that?

[strangebrew]

I built a showdown car a couple years ago with an "old school" brass drop arm guide & mounted it
purposely sloppy at the hinge point so it would drift side to side a bit.
Can't say if it helped or not......didn't hurt I guess.
I suppose I could have built it with a closer tolerance, run a bunch of laps as a benchmark,
then loosen it up & run a bunch more. I guess I don't have the patience to do that..............
I just moved on & built another car. :?

[Ky.Slot Racer]

[strangebrew]

..............B I N G O..........I reckin' I could do that :laughing-rolling:

Here's a pick of that car...I guess the guide would only drift 1/16"-1/8" or so.