Winter is coming

Well, actually winter is here.  With the onset of the rainy season, the indoor track stays damp and sticky all day long, even with minimal watering.  What this means is that slicks reign supreme, as long as the track is blown periodically.

I was working on my B6 with another racer, and he had some tips that worked out pretty well.  I normally run it in basically a dirt setup, with 23mm of ride height and a good amount of body roll, but I dropped it down to 21mm and lowered the inner rear ballstuds 1mm.  I also loosened the diff a bit because of all of the traction we have now.  These changes reduced quite a bit of push I was having mid-corner, as the rear was trying to push the front.

This dropped my B6 best laptime down to 16.9s.  My 22-4 2.0 is down to 16.3s, so the B6 is about a half second off of my wheeler.

I find the two quickest ways to get your car working better is to either have a faster guy drive it, or to drive a faster guy’s car.  It’s hard to know what you’re missing until you drive a better car, and then you have specific goals to work on.  After the faster racer drove mine, he realized how down on power his 17.5 Yokomo is compared to mine.  After I drove his, I realized how much better corner rotation he gets, with no push whatsoever, and how much better his shocks are setup.  I ordered some VRP pistons to try, and will probably be lowering the shock wt. a little bit.

There’s a few rookie races my son is going to do over Christmas break.  After that, I’m going to throw a 9.5t motor in the 22-4 and let ‘er rip!  The 13.5t motor is easy to drive, but I think I could lower my laptimes a little bit with a mod motor in there.