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Post by flipflopoo1oo on Mar 30, 2014 8:43:47 GMT -6
Have you ever driven a car for some one or get them to drive yours and tell you what they think in wrong! After years of cars and drivers, I have never drove not one lap and it is not hard to see most problems on the track or hear an engine problem! Most every driver is different in style and wants the car to be adjusted for them! And some require a change to feel safe to go faster as I stand and watch! I agree on safety any-time! Some-ones car that they make look good on the track, can be a hand full for others! Its what you are a custom to driving! I have always felt safe with a new driver in ours but not other cars with our drivers! Seeing is believing when flipping, rolling, or just fitting a wall that hard to help others, but this is who we are! Help is best done still in the shop while the meat is on the grill! Driver optional, scales not! We won lots of races before having scales and still they can tell you where you are at or going but have yet to have some that tell us where we need to be! Never kept books but always tried move forward from where it is now! It has never been the same week to week or even close! I can only wonder if drivers are the same as to the faster they go as to set-ups having to change to make both happy! A good driver has to understand nothing! A better driver wants to understand everything! Its a bigger job than you think some times just to get them to turn right to hook the car or mash on the throttle to stop a slide and let the car save its self! I have had some even remark on my lack of understanding not ever being in car to know what it is doing! As with most non horse-power related things it went right on past as I explained what only the car can do for a driver and not the other way around by design! A lot of good and great drivers wish there car was better as is the problem in most all cases as I have helped so many cars and drivers with-out making a lap! Both do have limitations but always can change for the better!
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Post by flipflopoo1oo on Sept 6, 2014 19:26:28 GMT -6
Looking at most stats I can make a lap or two around the four corners with it siting still! See a few geometric happenings of my own! Watching cars before and then winning on the second race is still fun to know you have still got the knowhow before hand and seeing it the same in print by stats both ways is still exciting on film! Thanks guys for getting it done on the track where I have no clue!!! AND HEY---sense you have won 3 now you can have the credit for rest! Good luck to night!
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Post by flipflopoo1oo on Sept 7, 2014 9:52:15 GMT -6
First night out, last night out, yesterday and finishing second isn't to bad for end of year new old school set-up! Those guys had all season to perfect theirs!!! You'll be even faster once you figure out just what you did and why and how it works!! I bet they never saw this coming and not even close yet as to being fast!!! Good news for the morning after but hey--I told You So!!!! You had a quick lesson in 20 post but more of a cheat sheet until you get it down in your head straight!
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Post by flipflopoo1oo on Sept 7, 2014 10:37:28 GMT -6
Anyone trying only parts of my theories may have found like in all different set-ups that it may not work with what you didn't change! Those who changed it all are well pleased and up front now for their total changes worked as planed to be faster and smoother and totally hooked up first time out!!! Its the same with motors!!! Don't go trying this or that with out the whole picture in mind as fuels, carbs, timing, and gear has to match too!
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Post by flipflopoo1oo on Sept 7, 2014 17:58:20 GMT -6
Several racers have ask me questions on dropping right or left on indexing of perches, pull bars and spring locations! While am dead set on little movement as possible, dropping the left and raising the right may have some merit if not loosing left rear traction but gaining right as I have found to work well! I have never considered taking this to a higher level of hiking the right side by dropping the left threw the turn but its looking like a good set-up possibility in planting harder of all fours threw the turn to be a bit faster! Mother Nature may be all for this if done correctly! Do you know of any setup using a set-up of this design? A no roll needed set-up design! And yes--- this is very possible!!! The car would stay leaned more than track angle only in the turns and a bit closer to level in the straits! Most are doing just the reverse now!
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Post by flipflopoo1oo on Nov 23, 2014 10:17:34 GMT -6
It is complicated but someone should speak up and want to go for the brass ring! I guess it takes too much gold instead of bronze to improve in todays world! The only draw back that I can see in moving the perches up and down is how to get the left constant without altering good steer factors in bar angles! Baby steps here in movement of preloads changing quickly when lifting and trading left rear drag in turn factors just to plant the right rear harder! Too much of a balance and its not going to pull left into the corner when lifting or drive off the left and make it pull to the right when wanting a free ride going left with right drive! I can see with all the free motion of today's chassis some good use could be found but not if your and old tight-wad like me that just wants to hold on to all the left rear I have for traction that wins instead of investing in the weight exchange in todays set-ups going up and down with variable restrictions!
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