Haha!! That video is great. Love the crazed yelling as he guns it towards the camera person. The vehicle in the vid is an example of a stock power wheel drivetrain, wheels, and tires with another battery added in series for 24v. Stock wheels are in fact hard plastic. You would need a lot of torque to overcome the friction of rubber tires as you pointed out but that kind of power is heavy and not cheep. I was just trying to provide a fun idea that would be economical.
I was watching video of these races last night and apparently I am not the first to think of this. It probably is not worth doing for the competition if it is not an original idea, but I still maintain that it would be most fun. See black car in this video. The guy spinning out all the time and at one point executing a perfect drift that they slowed the camera for is the car. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xFmwT0eZqQI# Don't get me wrong this is a horrible idea for a general race car. It would take lots of practice to learn to counter-steer properly. Drifting is an inefficient way to go around a turn. Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 7, 2013, at 12:49 AM, Andrew Buczko <[email protected]> wrote: > > You kids and your drifting... You'r doing it wrong! What you need is more > power, not plastic slippy wheels. > > For example: > http://youtu.be/E4vwOdn26Bk > > Granted we will need ALOT of power to spin the tires with our big butts > behind the wheel :) > > > >> On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Robert Rybicki <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> Idk if this counts as moxie but I think it would be wicked cool to make the >> vehicle front wheel drive and put hard plastic tires on the rear. They could >> be made on the cheep with wood, bearings, and large diameter PVC pipe. If >> you could get the drivers weight low enough the effect would be a drifting >> cart. If you can imagine the crowd going crazy when you drifts through every >> turn this might be cool? Also I can not think of a way to have more fun in >> an EV with four wheels. The theme could be fast and curious, Tokyo thrift. >> Lol >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Nov 5, 2013, at 11:52 PM, [email protected] wrote: >>> >>> We will be having a meeting concerning the power racing series next >>> Wednesday the 13th at 7pm. >>> We will get everyone informed of the rules, hash out a preliminary design, >>> and pitch ideas for the >>> theme and any Moxie we want to add. This is open to the public, you do not >>> have to be a SYN/HAK >>> member to join. Everyone is welcome. We would love to get as many people >>> involved as possible. >>> Drag along anyone that might be of help or have an interest in the project. >>> >>> If anyone has a source for the following please let me know ASAP: >>> Electric motors (12-36v dc) >>> Motor controller (Golf cart) >>> Batteries (prefer 12v Marine or Golf cart batteries) >>> Tires and rims (Golf cart or lawn tractor) >>> Drive train components (tie rods, ball joints, axles, cvt, differentals, cv >>> joints, universal joints, bearings) >>> >>> >>> If you have any ideas for Moxie feel free to follow up this email. If you >>> don't know what Moxie is, or want to read the rules they are here: >>> >>> http://www.powerracingseries.org/rules >>> >>> Hope to see ya there! >>> Nov 13th 7pm >>> 21 W. North st. >>> Akron, OH >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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