Scaling

[CCHIEF]

Excellent analogy MBR! What manufacturer?? Be advised, Adjustment of rear end laterally will change left side % some. Knowing how much rear weight you have, and how to alter it for different track configurations is important too. The way we scale our cars now involves alternate ride height control measures. Again, the components used to the build car, engine/oil system and driver are all variables that should be accounted for. Also, coming up light after a win is piss poor planning. OUTLAW4J, depends on what TW must be; car brand, driver and components used,all vary total weight, so kind of a loaded question.

[billetbirdcage]

You can for the most part, just scale once to get the % set and then go off smash numbers. You really shouldn't need to scale again unless you change something that will reasonably change %'s or if you get into a wreck and want help verifying the chassis is bent or not.

Nothing wrong with scaling and is a good way to double check to see if things are still good or show a problem, but many will scale once and not really ever scale again except on a rare occasion.

Now if your running different engine packages, then you may need to scale each package to get %'s.

[Hustle2win]

Man how late model set up has changed in the past 5 years.

[Jking24]

Man how late model set up has changed in the past 5 years.

Actually latemodel setup really hasn't changed in alot of ways it's just the tunning. Legitimate chassis manufacturers still scale the car just like we always did. Only difference is now we go another step further. The way we tune on the cars has changed but the principals are the same

[CCHIEF]

Actually late model setup really hasn't changed in a lot of ways it's just the tuning. Legitimate chassis manufacturers still scale the car just like we always did. Only difference is now we go another step further. The way we tune on the cars has changed but the principals are the same

Well put, scale your car after putting load set shocks on to compare (statically) to older scaled deals, but not a true A to A comparison due to variables in the shock/spring components we we use in newer setups. Well this isn't a Rocket obviously, so whose car is it???

[over4T]

Waaay back only a well off few even had grain scales. It was quite common to put a jack under the rear end and when the right rear was 1 or 1-1/2" off the ground you were good to go.

With all the costs of shock dynos, shock gurus, smash equipment, chassis and engine builders, engineers and safety gear required to go fast these days is it any surprise that fewer people get involved in the sport?

[CCHIEF]

I have no complaints about implementation of any well thought out safety equipment.

[over4T]

Nor do I but the hot summer months racing was a lot more comfortable in jeans, a Tee shirt and an open faced motorcycle helmet and strapped in with an old Cessna 2 point belt...at least until something bad happened.

Thought we were high tech when we progressed from welding bottles and a torch to my first arc welder from Monkey Wards that was barely a hundred bucks. And the wrecking yards were a second home.

[Jking24]

We built our first smasher from a harbor freight pneumatic engine hoist ram and a load cell and display. had less than six hundred dollars in the whole thing. People want to blame it on engineers and fancy stuff. When in reality it's just education and work contributing to the evolution of the sport. If you don't like it or can't keep up. As hot karl would say get a streeter. No offense to street or hobby/ small tire type classes. It takes work toi be good in any of them

[MasterSbilt_Racer]

We built our first smasher from a harbor freight pneumatic engine hoist ram and a load cell and display. had less than six hundred dollars in the whole thing. People want to blame it on engineers and fancy stuff. When in reality it's just education and work contributing to the evolution of the sport. If you don't like it or can't keep up. As hot karl would say get a streeter. No offense to street or hobby/ small tire type classes. It takes work toi be good in any of them

Education isn't legal unless it comes from Integra.