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Post by flipflopoo1oo on Aug 28, 2014 7:04:56 GMT -6
Don't ask too many questions ---if you don't like the answers!---- Wrong--- While my world is most complex, a few more questions may help me pay closer attention to details in being able to get a point across easier! Just ask with a open mind and don't stop until satisfied--NOT MORE CONFUSED! I may be the one in need of help but not asking the right questions myself! 300 people a day should give more input good or bad than they do! I ask my wife at-least one question a day, but I say HONEY first! Even she takes that the wrong way sometimes!!! If you go to the doctor, do you not want answers or just the cure and prevention in detailed form! A little pain with any ills on race cars too is common! Another question or two and a glass of water may well relieve the stress of it all in knowing what caused the problems to start with! New answers or constant car pains???
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Post by flipflopoo1oo on Aug 29, 2014 7:49:22 GMT -6
Some just have the knack for that!--We all should be good at something! I just never grew up and decided on one thing but my wife and she changes daily like most race cars do! If we don't know what we want to start with, changes come quickly, easier, and without warning some times! Having less you can or need to adjust comes by not moving! If not moving to effect others things, more control is gained! This gets back down to more good being done in one correct spot to adjust to be closer than without-- (rampant multiples) --( more fuzzy bunnies)--- SMOSH!!!(SO MUCH OTHER STUFF HAPPENING)! I like simple, as it gives me and the driver more control to win! HSOMS---( Have some other main setting)--- This does get rid of SMOSH! Just don't go there with out first knowing the conditions you surrender to in set-up help! MORE COMPLEXITY TO SIMPLIFY!!! Or just believe in your good judgment and start over new and fresh with new info! My wife says that she doesn't want to change me, but rather the things I do and when I do them! Set-ups takes skill and driving takes knack of skills, I would have to say!!! It does however take both to win! Don't we agree on this??? Did I see a FLAG DROP somewhere or not??? Let's go racing on the same page for one lap and you will win! Was this race thrown or was your driving faster! I repeat--- I DO NOT DRIVE A RACECAR!!! So shouldn't I be good at something else! LAP OVER-- and was my time faster wasted or waisted??? Sorry but I have a persistent knack according to most things in finding how they work best by simplifying them! REVERSE ENGINEERING is just having a open mind and a little knack! Every race car is as different as each one of us or even down to who is driving it!
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Post by flipflopoo1oo on Aug 30, 2014 16:21:19 GMT -6
Should I grove this new tire?---- Sure, let me help! Can I wright my name in it! Some do odd patterns to hopefully help and it can! Sometimes!!!
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Post by flipflopoo1oo on Aug 30, 2014 16:38:29 GMT -6
If not winning yet from lack of change, it isn't my fault! If you have changed any and all to improve, why not change it all at one time to get it correct! This or that is soup but it takes correct things to make the mix sound like a winner!
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Post by flipflopoo1oo on Aug 31, 2014 7:10:51 GMT -6
You need a car to ask questions!!! NOPE! I am wide open throttle, hammer down, on issues of learning the how-to of it all! New members welcome! Jump right in and help get things in prospective! Don't let any one wheel pull the track out from under your tires!--- Left rear is related just to the amount of loss you can stand or how much you try so hard to recover to have equal traction!
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Post by flipflopoo1oo on Aug 31, 2014 7:36:51 GMT -6
I just climbed out of the swamp! Nope---- but not too far up the bank yet! The mulk of dirt racing is thick in some places and requires a clean start or run at the competition! Swishing your tail is sometimes useful but I think holding still longer with less movement yields best results in catching prey! 4 wheel traction in nature has proven this to be so but new shoes on the pulling wheels means a lot if wanting to rear up your head proudly!
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Post by flipflopoo1oo on Sept 1, 2014 11:56:54 GMT -6
Drifting is fun!--- Only doing a burn-out during a victory lap comes close to fun in drifting! Save those tires because you will need two just like them next race! So many a time roll outs stretching by heat factors and flats have hindered getting the correct back into place for the next race! When only running a 1/2 inch of stager works great beware of change week to week after sitting with factors or running factors increases roll out race to race! 1.75 from 1/2 in 2-3 races is not uncommon if on the same tires! We change not for traction or wear but mostly keeping roll out correct! A little cord is more bite when running slicks on a wet track but don't try this in the main! Even not spinning ever still saves tire wear but not roll-out!
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Post by flipflopoo1oo on Sept 1, 2014 12:34:50 GMT -6
A car should be tighter for the feature race!---- WELL--!!! Now that would just depend wouldn't it!!! Most change something but it has to be correct in helping face the track or just let mother nature change it for you if so designed in your set-up of choice! I figure she knows better about those things out there and all has been done to prepare for her track of choice! So why change if winning the heat unless wrong to start with in some respects in facing her but not the track! Attitude sometimes changes perspectives after a few winnings are forth coming! Her way by science and math or yours by change and track! Which is more consistent in loose or tight in the turn, high or low??? If running both as in tacky or slick, fast or slow but staying hooked, what is the difference in factors! Speed is the same! If you find some apply them to your car! Mine will face them both to hold its own!
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Post by flipflopoo1oo on Sept 3, 2014 21:28:40 GMT -6
Have you ever??? Yep and got caught the first time by factors of the unknown! A big clan of those ills in racing! Better to learn all you can before venturing out in the lean world of what's and whys of left!
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Post by flipflopoo1oo on Sept 3, 2014 21:39:37 GMT -6
Well---how much would it-- Every dime and then worth only the education of learning! School is high these days so enjoy the ride to the front of your class! A great way to get richened in life! Running left you don't notice the clock turning right so much!
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Post by flipflopoo1oo on Sept 5, 2014 20:10:05 GMT -6
What If I---Yes that will work just fine but it doesn't go well with all the other things you thought wasn't iffy! I know of five different set-ups using the same springs and shocks in different positions! This is just the tip of what you start with! Each has its on way of getting things done as correctly as it can! Each has to give somewhere to make others work! Working up from leaf springs and understanding poundage before rear steer helps a lot with 3 links with a pan-hard bar and pull bars and swing arms! Once at j-bars, four links, with indexing, perches, fifth arms, floated brakes and z-links it does get to be a bit iffy! The what ifs get to be a common question you have to ask yourself more than once! Geometry runs rampant with more movement changing all the factors in the arc of torque curves! I'm just a country boy who paid more attention to cars than most! I don't have all the answers but I'm still learning the ills to find less of them in the mix! Yet they make more!
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Post by flipflopoo1oo on Sept 6, 2014 6:43:41 GMT -6
Its too complicated--- NOPE-- just more interesting one piece at a time!---- Seeing the big picture is like trying and trying is almost like succeeding and that is a good second place finish! Being first comes one car at a time! Being stuck in second may not be the cars fault but a lack of understanding, that doesn't help the car any to gain another position! Is your car left winged or right! Do you run just the middle all the time or venture out? Do you put it back or move ahead with changes once made? Most changes need a few maybes thrown in too before hand, one at a time to each part effected!!!
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Post by flipflopoo1oo on Sept 6, 2014 9:36:03 GMT -6
Am I missing the point of my set-up!----How would I know the questions you or I forgot to ask ourselves! It's more than one I bet!!! Team work on both sides not to forget to tighten the wheels or set the air! A check list is a wonderful thing! Knowing all the stats would be too in answering!
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Post by flipflopoo1oo on Sept 6, 2014 14:54:02 GMT -6
I fear my balance is off!-----Well just teeter on over and get more right rear but don't do it by nosing harder, rolling the left up and loosing poundage or leaning to the right and never coming back! Preloads some times in different spring weights just has be loaded to match ease of movement of both! Bounce together you might say yet 25-200 pounds apart in matching preloads per pounds to spring rates! Then you may see why she doesn't sway so easily!
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Post by flipflopoo1oo on Sept 13, 2014 9:23:00 GMT -6
I'm going to win next time---- Not by sitting in the shop drinking ice cold tea or beer it seems! Its all work when it comes easy even! A real team effort all the way to the CHECKERED!!! Even having a pretty face or grandson around helps a bunch! Winning or loosing is a life lesson well taught by racing but it is fun either way!
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