Any Advice for a New Driver

[MasterSbilt_Racer]

So what about for a driver moving up from lower classes, how do I know when what I've learned from experience in other cars is right and when I'm just plain bass ackwards? I don't have any help at the track with me most of the time and when I do pretty much all they know how to do is help me push the car on and off of the trailer and maybe change a tire. I got to admit this whole late model thing is darn intimidating. I don't plan on doing anything to the suspension at all. I'm gonna set it up the way the guy I'm getting it from says it worked for him and just drive it. I figure I'll cause more handling problems than the setup will this year. When I can drive it THEN I'll worry about other stuff. I'm approaching this right or umm wrong?

A lot of tuning adjustments on the rear will be bass ackwards. The lr works by raising up to wedge the car, not by the springs carrying weight. That messes people up.

As for driving...

If you are coming from some sort of stocker, you will tend to over-drive the car. A good-handling car just needs a babysitter. It will do a lot of the work for you. You don't have to force it to turn the corner.

[Rocky]

A lot of tuning adjustments on the rear will be bass ackwards. The lr works by raising up to wedge the car, not by the springs carrying weight. That messes people up.

As for driving...

If you are coming from some sort of stocker, you will tend to over-drive the car. A good-handling car just needs a babysitter. It will do a lot of the work for you. You don't have to force it to turn the corner.

So if I put 2 rounds in on the RR it will tighten the car instead of loosen it?

or it just won't do anything?

[MasterSbilt_Racer]

So if I put 2 rounds in on the RR it will tighten the car instead of loosen it?

or it just won't do anything?

You will decrease wedge. The car will be tighter off the gas and looser on the gas. Pretty much what you would expect. Really, I guess I should have said the lr more than "the rear".

[Rocky]

You will decrease wedge. The car will be tighter off the gas and looser on the gas. Pretty much what you would expect. Really, I guess I should have said the lr more than "the rear".

ahh got ya, when you said wedge I thought of it in generic stock car terms only like backwards. I got a setup book with the car and a driver that has won in it on the other end of my cell phone speed dial. I'm trying not to phsych myself out over all this I've seen plenty of guys with less experience racing anything than me do just fine. I don't doubt I can get in the car and go fast but I mean it's intimidating to a guy that's raced "junk" all his life. Hell I still got a junk motor I'm just taking about 700lbs off of what it had on it in the last car it was in and that sir was a fast street stock. This ought to be a blast! 2 barrell limited late model class on a 1/3 mile track, it ought to be enough to learn with.

[supercomet32]

on a bullring track i would also go with a gear combo that would keep you going around the top with very little accel/decel per lap more momentum type track and make sure you still go the umph to pull you back up in rpms in the inevitable slow down from a small track

[powerslide]

ahh got ya, when you said wedge I thought of it in generic stock car terms only like backwards. I got a setup book with the car and a driver that has won in it on the other end of my cell phone speed dial. I'm trying not to phsych myself out over all this I've seen plenty of guys with less experience racing anything than me do just fine. I don't doubt I can get in the car and go fast but I mean it's intimidating to a guy that's raced "junk" all his life. Hell I still got a junk motor I'm just taking about 700lbs off of what it had on it in the last car it was in and that sir was a fast street stock. This ought to be a blast! 2 barrell limited late model class on a 1/3 mile track, it ought to be enough to learn with.

With it being a 2barrel class it will be alot about momentum. Your experience with mini stocks will help alot. Think you will be fine

[Rocky]

With it being a 2barrel class it will be alot about momentum. Your experience with mini stocks will help alot. Think you will be fine

hmm I never thought of it like that, I thought I was just wasting my time in those cars. I guess I'm glad I raced them so much. Thanks! That makes me feel a little better.

[1Blacksheep]

Take that money and buy a good Bassboat and fishpole. Drive that sucker like a mad man all around the nearest lake. Fish for hours while drinkin beer. The worst that can happen is you will go home drunk and disappointed but satisfied. The racecar and fellow competitors = are going to send you home broke and pissed most the time. Bassboat = less stress .