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[MSwiss]

Guys by me, sometimes attach the plastic dots.

I usually find them on the track, after the race. Lol

[Tim Neja]

GT 12 and Euro chassis are designed for the front to have skids that touch the track.  The chassis can be "tuned" for rear bite by adding little bits of body armor to the bottom of the front skids on the chassis.  Flexi cars can have the same thing done.  It will "load" the rear tires more with the .03 - .07 thickness of the body armor we use.  Those chassis do NO damage to the track or braid. 

FWIW
 

[Ramcatlarry]

In the 'good old days' tracks got painted with simple paints and SOME damage could occur from metal/plastic scrapping the deck.  Newer built tracks and track refurbishers rely on the modern epoxy water based enamels used for garage floors to finish our wood tracks.  VERY hard surface to damage....

 

Personally, I think rolling wheels have less friction than ALL sliding frame members.  I like the fronts to control the chassis twisting motion.

[Pablo]

If you like front wheels on slot cars, then simply run only the classes that benefit from them. I use front wheels on the classes that require them. But I'm sure not gonna put them on a wing car or a flexi LOL

 

If I wanted to race real cars, I'd race real cars. Slot cars aren't real cars. Some go really fast without front wheels, others need them to handle well. Different types of cars need different things. We need to appreciate all of them 

[Bill from NH]

Having no front wheels is is just an easy mean to get the front of a chassis to sit down low to the track. I run with a hardbody club/home group now.  Having/not having fronts is not an issue.

[Danny Zona]

Don't forget about adding solder balls/patches on the front ears of chassis.

It's just another alternative tuning option. That's if a rule set allows it of course.

[SpeedyNH]

i like front wheels too. 

 

sometimes we did add little 'dits' on the outer bottoms of the front wings, and some of the higher-end chassis even came with them. i remember some little partially-sunk-in ball bearing balls, too, which was a brilliant solution on hard steel chassis because they didn't wear away or come off the car. (except once! Lol. man was that hard to find.) 

Mike, in our classes we had a rule that the spur gear (or anything else) could not protrude beyond the flat bottom of the chassis. that was because we had no clearance rule- you could run yourself right out of tire if you wanted to, but then of course the handling would go away rapidly- but you just slid around without damaging the epoxy-painted (thanks!) track. (think we occasionally had the odd 'regular' painted track too, but i don't remember seeing any worn-off paint, nor anybody b1tching about it.) 

 

we also had a "green flag tire change only" rule, and only a one-minute lane change between heats. (in my sleep i can still hear, "THIRTY Seconds!" Lol again)  No tools were allowed at the track; just a lane sticker, oil, braids, repair tape and body pins. anything else that you couldn't do with just your hands had to be done at the hot pits while the race was on. you could set up wheels or rear ends with wrenches already in 'em to speed things up, but you couldn't touch 'em while the power was off. you even had to pause work during track calls. Bill, i bet you remember this.

we tried to emulate endurance racing as well as we could- any real work had to performed in the pits while the race was on. the class primarily affected by this was eurosport, but we had gotten tired of a couple people in other series' (who 'had to win'), running minimum tire on their cars and them changing them every heat during lane changes.  twelve bucks for tires per heat? our rules took care of That little problem.