Beach Cruiser Update

[Track Junky]

Congrats!! How 'bout a little more detail on how she felt in the corners.....

[Beach Cruiser]

She Felt pretty good! Did well in the sweepers, it was the back and forth transitions (slalom) that were a little tough. I think there is an issue with the steering I need to adress, It seems the power steering pump can't keep up with the rapid transitions. I'm going to call TurnOne tomorrow and talk to them. I was on old tires, and it was really cold so I had a hard time getting it put down the power. Oh, and Power she's got! I finished 11th out of 75 cars and nothing broke! Here's a few pics

[Track Junky]

Those are great pic's. Love the color combo on that car. Sounds like it felt like you had manual steering? Looks like the rear was rotating pretty well. Was the front pushing at all?

[Beach Cruiser]

it was a very short technical course with lots of transitions. From the pics it looks like I could use more front swaybar? I was wierd, it would push, then the second lap it would hook, It had to be the cold tires. Yeah, I can rotate the rear with the throttle at will! Gotta be something with the ps pump, the first few turns felt good, then it would kinda "hang up"? and I had to muscle through it. I can't wait for the Southern Slam to see how it does on the track! I also kinda hate to take it there un tested. I look at it as a fairly cheap test and tune weekend! (other than the 7 hour trailer tow)

[Track Junky]

Sounds like the front pushed only when the tires were cold and if you can rotate the rear at will the front bar is probably good. Get youself a fresh set of tires and a good set of shocks and I think you'll be pretty fast. Cant wait to hear how your track day goes.

How did the gearing in the trans and differential feel? Did you find yourself up and down shifting often?

[Beach Cruiser]

The gearing felt pretty good, I was in first the whole time, no need to shift. In the powerband for the whole course. At 65 on the highway, it runs about 1800 Rpm in 4th. I think I'm right in the ball park. She's no drag car for sure though. I'm running the shoftest 1 1/4 speedway engineering bar up front, so I have some room to tweek. The shocks felt pretty good how I had them set, I didn't touch them all weekend.

[Beach Cruiser]

Raced the car two weekends ago, nothing broke! Car was fast right off the jack stands. Been doing the small things since, which is a real pain in the A$$, but making progress. Would have finished the cage plates today, but ran out of Welding Gas. Here's a few pics.



Plasma cutters, making paper dolls into racecar parts on a daily basis!




Refurbished the tailights today too!