Thanks for the comment and it sounds like you have the right mindset to do well just remember wait placement has more to do with it than most other things but every little thing helps good luck hope it goes well

Tee Bull do you want to balance the weight so that the actual balance point of the car is 1 in in front of the back axles but if possible I always like to start with two ounces of weight behind the back axles and then move the rest of the way forward until I get to that one two three quarters of an inch in front of the back axles if you put all the weight in the back it will unbalanced the car and cause it to wiggle as it goes down watch a video on tuning a car I also recommend using a three-wheel car railrider and steer about 2in of steer into the center of the track

The rules only allow for all 4 wheels touching. Also, there's no center rail. Which I think is also contributing to the wobble. How should I adjust to the 4 wheels and the no center rail?

Glad to hear the way to go

If you wanted to build a spare car that would be fine I try not to go that harsh unless I know that the car can handle it and usually it is the super lightweight cards I can but it is always a risk I've had cars to do really well and I've had cars that don't do as well where are the three quarter tends to be a little bit more reliable

Please go on my channel and look at the other videos I have all the other speed tips at use and one of them is running on three wheels and rail and how I set it up it's well worth watching all the videos it's all my tricks of how I've won multiple multiple races

@@tateabdon1 I definitely will check them out before our big race on Friday. But real quick question.. I’m not sure what I did wrong but I made our car purposely ride on 3 wheels but somehow the right wheel ended up being the one not touching, for some reason. Does it matter if the left or right wheel is the one that doesn’t touch the track? I’m really stressing about this. I noticed my son was playing with the car over the weekend and after he was playing with it is when I deepened the axel groove on the left front wheel. So i don’t know if something happened when he was playing with it or not. Anyways, if you could answer that for me I’d really appreciate your advice.

Aerodynamics are very little part of the race do what you can I feel that weight is a much more important I've never seen anyone and I've never put any of the plastic on the bottom a cover up the bottom of the car just the top saying that doesn't mean it's not worth a test few have the time

As long as you have a steerable car a 5/8 is not impossible just remember to run the car a few times and make sure there's not wobbling happening if so you can always steer the car a little farther into the center rail but it is always a gamble three quarters tends to work really really well across the board as you get lighter and lighter to a point of where it doesn't affect it as much that's when I start getting into the 5/8 area

You're bouncing to wait between each wheel this allows equal friction on both back wheels to achieve this you must add weight to one side of the car being on the side that touches the track in front it also gives you the benefits of keeping the car down on the driving wheel this is why we used the scales to balance the wheels on the back hope this helps

@@tateabdon1 when you say balance the weight between the rear wheels it sounds to me like the weight would be even on both but that seems impossible if you are placing the weight to one side of the car doesnt it?

@@alaroche00 it's kind of an interesting phenomenon but if you balance them properly with two scales that can do Graham wait you will see that balancing the two back wheels always will bounce heavy to one side I either wheel which is touching the ground

I would still go with the tungsten carbide cubes and then you can also buy tungsten carbide little disks if you can't get those to fit

I use CA glue to adhere them to the bottom of the car which seems to work perfect and then on the extra that I add when I get to the race I just use the aluminum foil duct tape that you can get at Home Depot

When I do a four wheel car I just do a 3-wheel car and I bend the non-dominant wheel usually the left wheel down and keep rotating until it hits the ground just enough to pass inspection it is still touching still legal but not actually doing any of the driving of the car

@@tateabdon1 So, you're saying that all four wheels are at a canter, the rear at a negative camber and the front right with a positive camber and the front left at a positive camber, but barely touching?

dafontenot yes the non-dominant wheel just enough I rotate it until it's just touching so as if I push it over the table I can see it spin just slightly and I leave everything else the same so it's still a three-wheel car steering properly with all the way in the back but the fourth wheel just barely touches so it passes inspection

You can also ask and make sure if they have rules like the wheel must spend at least one time every foot or something like that they have all kinds of funky rules like that and that might help you know what to do

because every track is different it is very hard to say what is a good time I usually ask the person that is running the track with the best time for their track is and you should be very close to that if you follow all the rules

dafontenot it is the same vinyl you put on signs and that's where I get it I get the scraps from sign shops so the higher-end stuff seems to work really well and you just heat it up with a hairdryer after you're done to straighten it out works really well and it's free

On purpose it is basically like dipping your axles in oil wiping off and then adding graphite it does work if your rules allow it though

What would you use