Winter Programming: S-B Pinewood Derby Race - Relive your youth.

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by blondterror

I will bring 2 cars I helped my son build about 10 yrs ago. He had 4 yrs of PD and made some great cars.

The Silver Streak won every race it ran and the gator car was very fast too. Its all about the axels, wheels, wt location, total wt, and running on 3 wheels

We'll work on the rules for clarification (plenty of time) but stock class will probably be common BSA rules - all 4 wheels touching, no grooved axles, no lightened wheels (some sanding is fine), but unlimited would allow significant tweaks, and maybe a class for those old racers - Nice cars.

Originally Posted by striperman36

It would cost more than a 10 buck entry fee.

My son's from last year (no, he did most of the work).

[striperman36]

Unlimited Class? Like no rules except be built from the BSA kit?

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by striperman36

Unlimited Class? Like no rules except be built from the BSA kit?

Yep. You could use razor wheels, run on three wheels - ride on one and glue the other three to the roof , rail ride, groove axels, etc...

No motor or power though.

Could be interesting. But we can't run those against cars running stock, so different divisions. I figure I'll do one stock and one unlimited.

[striperman36]

Originally Posted by JohnR

Yep. You could use razor wheels, run on three wheels - ride on one and glue the other three to the roof , rail ride, groove axels, etc...

No motor or power though.

Could be interesting. But we can't run those against cars running stock, so different divisions. I figure I'll do one stock and one unlimited.

Weight limit the same, no attached propulsion, unfortunately, the bullet car failed the test. No mini-belt sanders, that worked pretty good though. The balloon car didn't have enough acceleration, the aka-seltzer soda car was too messy