PINWOOD DERBY

[Sparkey98]

yeah, I know two threads in one day.
 
anyway, who else here is a fan of Pinwood durby cars? has anyone else built them? I used to be into them, and today I just bought everything I need to build one over the weekend. Not a kit, everything seperate.
 
 
 
I will post pics of him when I'm done

[Doomkiller]

Pinwood durby?

enlighted me.

[Badnik96]

I made a few, always won every year.

[frezal]

I will post pics of him when I'm done

Oh whom?

[Jonzu95]

Pinwood durby?

enlighted me.

you don't know of them?

I don't know either... 

[Jack Daniels]

Pinewood Derby is a blast. A friend of mine was telling me the other day that a good trick to getting more speed out of the car is to coat the axles with graphite so that there is less fricton on the wheels.  I think I built those for about 3 years.  Totally sucked at it... my cars were too fat and heavy. 

Also did Co2 Racers one year... that was a blast.  Would love to try that again sometime.

[Sparkey98]

yeah, you can buy graphite powder tubes now, that's the only thing I DID'NT buy for mine, though. I can't handle that stuff without inhalling some on acident!
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinewood_derby

[Badnik96]

Yeah, me and my brother PWN every year with our cars because my dad knows about the thingy posted above. I still race my cars sometime XD

[Hydro]

I did CO2 drag racing once. I was in 8th grade and they had an 8th grade division and a high school division. Won the 8th grade and woulda won the high school but the wheels fell off my car.

[Scrap Daddy]

Also did Co2 Racers one year... that was a blast.  Would love to try that again sometime.

YEAH! Co2 cars are awesome. I have quite a few of them from the tech class I took a few years ago, but my favorite is a car I made to look like Bullet Bill from Mario. I hollowed out the wood block and put all the wheels on the inside. Absolutely fail at racing but looked really cool.


I might post some pics if I can find the car.

[Sparkey98]

I found a vid that had a Co2 racer that looked like a bull dozer. if you're thinking pig whoop, think this. A bull dozer going 312 MPH at a smaller scale.
 
 
hell ya.

[Clickbeetle]

I used to be in boy scouts and did a pinewood derby event every year for the three years I was in it.  Didn't win anything the first year, won the loser's bracket the second year, and won the whole event the third year.


'Twas fun painting and decorating the cars to make them look pretty... much like RA2, I tried to make my cars unique in some way.

[Somebody]

I had a car. It was a wedge painted like a block of cheese. I found a little rubber mouse and glued him on it and made a little bite mark on it.