[diana]

Hello all,
Looking for some info ( ballpark ). Am trying to scale our car and we are unsure of what an average setup
might be! Floyd Bailey does not scale there cars just block and go. We want to fine tune our car by scaling and need to know what an average winged car should be. Any help on this subject would be very appreciated
Thank you

[DAD]

diana

You are looking for something that just ain't there. 99.9% of the time mini-sprints race on a dirt racing surface. Unlike pavement race tracks dirt tracks change every second you are racing on it.

It usually changes a great deal from your first hot lap until the end of the main event, hence we set them up close by using set up blocks, make adjustments as the night wears on and expect our drivers to compensate for the error of our adjustments. When you watch a NASCAR race on TV the announcers state that they are taking a few turns out of the track bar or are changing tire pressure 1 or 2 pounds. That is what we do between our short sprint races that they do during the course of a very long race.

Listen to Floyd Bailey he wrote the book on Mini Sprint racing. Block the car at his base line settings. That will be the set up for a heavy track. Then work with the driver to dial the car in as the night progresses. We call that racing the race track, and sometimes that wins a race for us but even more often it looses a race or two for us.

Have fun, and don't try and read too much into your racing activities. Don't make too many changes or too radical of a change to the race car. We call that messing up our set up, and unless you are Karl Kinser and you have Steve driving your race car you will miss the set up much more than you nail it right on.

Buy the book from Steve Smith and Jimmy Sills about setting up a Midget. Read it a couple of dozen time, (you will pick up something new each reading) then buy the video and watch it and see if you can follow him through his thought process when setting up his race car for the race track.

Honest Dad himself