A Helpful Hint from Voxxer...
Hi. Sharing tips with the RLD club. Buy cheap door mirror. Use 3" 3 ring binder for incline. Add levels at both end. Make sure level. Race car down one edge plain, then the other. Car should stay straight. If it " leans" to inside, then wheels or alignment is out of balance. Thx. Voxxer Racing Research and Development.
***** best to do with chassis and wheels only !!!!!
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Discussion
Ok so I tried this technique on my stock cars and found quite a few of them do drift (even sharp turn). Is there a method any of you use to correct this if either the wheels or axles are out. I guess if JB Quiking mods it is pretty easy to make the correction.
But is there anyway to correct stock cars?
I was hoping someone had a technique so I didn't have to drill the rivets on my stock racers. My fastest car is a Johnny 69 camaro. It drifts to the left, wonder how much faster it would be if it didn't drift
With stock cars, it is tough to make any kind of alignment because the axles aren't fixed in place. If you were to try to move the axle so it runs straight, you might get it in a position where it runs better...but it could easier rotate back out of that position..
With a a car pulling to one side, it is just as likely that it has a bad wheel on the side it pulls toward...which you can't fix without drilling the car.
This is why I like to mod the cars. I'd rather build a fast car out of a slow car than buy 20 (...or 50...or 100) cars, trying to find a fast one. But, that is just me...building them is the fun part for me...and seeing how they do is cool too. My motto is "Build it, don't Buy it" for real cars and it applies to the little ones too :)
- Great advice thanks. I guess it is why finding a good casting with perfect wheels/axles is so tough to find. — husk16
- Heck, finding an axle with 2 good wheels on it is tough, not to mention 4 good wheels on one car :) — 72_Chevy_C10
Thanks for the tip. And I second the axle tips :)