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Old 05-19-2008 | 07:18 AM
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No problem. In the six blocks, in the top of each block, in red, Loose Exit or loose entry, Push (overall pushes everywhere), ect.... These are the changes needed to tighten up the car.

A car that is too tight will push. A car that is too loose will spin out.

To point you more in the right direction, if your car was loose, (rear of the car swings around) you would want to work on the front of the car first to take away some steering, then work on the rear to get the best traction.

and if the car was not turning, the rear of the car is too tight (too much traction) and you would start working on the rear of the car to take some traction away.

As for the track conditions, I would almost always start out on the softest tires and work my way up from thier. Tire wear will be an issue until you get the setup correct and you stop spinning tires. If you only have access to electric foam tires.....Purple and double purples work very well, double purples on the outside. If you have nitro foams available, I would run 35 or 38's on the left side, 26mm both front and rear. This side of the car has less wieght on the car. on the right side, I would run 30mm tires (rear) ones, running 38's or 40's,..... watch tire wear to make sure that the tires are not coneing to the outside (on the right side of the car), adjuct the camber on the right side to keep the tires wearing flat or slightly to the inside.... If you start chunking the right rear, you need to go just a little more till that stops.
To get the car to get more grip to turn in, you could run a 30mm tire on the left front, but run a SOFT tire if you do this. Remember that the left front tire is tipped out on the top, this alows the tire to use the outside edge to "carve" into the corner, The rim of the tire is harder on the outside this giving more force/grip/traction to the rubber that is on the outside edge, wher the rest of the tire will flex some. Look at a Nascar car sitting in pit lane, the tire looks tipped out a lot.

If you are running a 2speed, make sure that the car isn't shifting too soon, that will cause the car to get very loose about half way out of the corner. you want the car to shift just as the car gets strait, or right after you hit the apex of the turn, anyplace else will cause you a lot of grief in getting the setup just right. Once you get the setup down and get the car to do what you want, then you can start moving the shift point into the "that" area to get faster speeds down the straits, but DO NOT TRY THIS UNTIL YOU HAVE THE CAR SETUP PERFECT.

driving lesson
No matter what size track you run, you want to remember this. Keep the car moving, the more time you spend on the brakes, the slower you will go. The best way to keep your speeds up is to get consistant. In Oval, you may want to take the car and try roll it into the corner...DON'T, you need a little brake to set the front of the car down to "plant" the front tires so it will turn. Just a slight tap on the brakes will work...at the instant you get off the brakes, turn left. The car should dive into the corner....

Getting back onto the throttle: If you break a track into 4 corners (traditional oval) take turns 1-2 and 3-4. The best place to start is just past the end of 1 and just into 2. After you find the "line" (see diagram) and the car is working, you can start getting back onto throttle sooner and sooner till you find yourself letting off to keep from hitting the wall on corner exit. (note: when I was running Oval, I was on throttle 95% of the track. the other 5% was to tap the brakes and enter the car into the corner)

DRIVE LINE: In oval racing you want to diamond the track as much as possible. In a diamond, you have 4 points. The closer you can run to these points, the faster you will run. oval isn't about drag racing down the straights, its about getting into and out of the corners the fastest. A car that gets thought the corners faster will almost always beat a car that is fast in the straits. (note: I almost always ran on OS CV12 "red head", on my NTC3 when running in parking lots. Many times, I outran Novarossi, JP's, RB's and all those faster engines, because the setup of the car was better and could get through the corners)
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