Pinewoodapalooza: Behind the cheater cars
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- Опубліковано 23 вер 2024
- The Columbus Dispatch enlisted a cub scout and several local engineers to design the fastest pinewood derby cars possible. Without having to conform to the standard rules, they developed their "cheater cars" and then we put them to the test.
Video by Carrie Wise | Columbus Dispatch
See more on the Pinewood Derby at www.dispatch.com/pinewood
I turned roofing nails on a drill press to fit the wheels better than the nails given to you with the kit. My pack leader wanted to disqualify me for cheating. There was no rile saying you must use the parts given to you. This was in 1969, and I won overall for that year. I also used lemon pledge for a lubricant but I told a competitor I used BOTH oil and graphite which formed a thick paste and the poor kids car stopped half way down the track. Still have the car.
Wtf is wrong with you
2.9 is about what a fast legal derby car is
Exactly. Lol
I cannot wrap my head around how Kyle the cub scout's car gives him an advantage... Can someone more thoroughly explain what the spring and lever do exactly?
I don't think your ever going to find out, my dude
I think it acts like a gate latch, slipping so that it's not physically possible to load the car against the starting pin without its natural head-start. After this, the lever pops back forward to trip the laser sensor.
trips the beam earlier than a standard car...but its slow and complciated so it was a net loss
That would be fun to design a car and go against the rules, to try to make top speeds.
None of those times were particularly impressive. A fast outlaw/cheater car is in the 2.4 range.
Out most recent PWD Car, last weekend, did 3.663 and it was completely stock with only legal modifications done to it. That was a Pack record even though it is really not super fast. Legal cars can get closer to 3.0.
I was expecting much faster from this attempt.
Right...i ran 3.8s with a standard boy scout shop kit with mine back in 2006 with a car my dad carved with a pocketknife and sadnpaper lmao. We had box standard wheels, the lead weights BSA sold in their shop, and the original kit nails unmodded and only weighed 4.8oz too instead of the more normal 4.99oz most tried to achieve
*I would have put a small A-size Estes rocket motor on it and it would have blown past the finish line in less than a second. My brother and I use to put rocket motors in RC cars all the time. If you hit the curb or something it will explode into a million pieces.*
I used mini rockets along with a highly trained grasshopper (ex-navy seal) to shoot down all of my opponents. Needless to say, i won every single time. ...Ice cream.
How is this not the top response?
the Cub scout whooped their asses
grumpybill
The
Isaac Jans douche
grumpybill screw you
Isaac Jans nope.
Isaac Jans don't swing that way, but maybe you will find the man for you.
This seems so much more fun
Just use a Co2 cardtridge
Thanks for letting me know
2:04 it's that guy from the Sex Offender Shuffle.
Dude looks like the guy that brings out Punxsutawney Phil.
personally me and my dad payed a guy to add as much friction to the other tracks so he damaged every part of the track except ours! we still lost bc of the kid Daniel disided to throw a rock at our car... then i did what FaytaL Freeze did... CO2 Rockets... we were disqualified again.
good
but why?
Vehickle
it's vehicle learn to how to spelled
Tyler Skovdal Studio it’s vehikle stoopid
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Starman 0mg 1 sory 4 misteke
Weights are not cheating only the thrusters are
I put my CO2 boosters and win lol
The black truck looking car seems flawed the center of mass is in the front
Rewatch and look at the car without the shell. The cargo in the bed is the weight.
To be fair, it looks like the Cub Scout did really well- however, his car wan't that much faster- it had nearly a full car length head start.
You get that the head-start itself was his cheat, right?
Cool
hey you,you can`t just hack like that it is illegal for now and you just brake through the pinewood derby car race rules.
That's the point.
all these are a joke compared to this one using a small rocket engine: they should
have a class A derby with no rules and a longer track....wouldn't need a hill either...average speed of the fastest PWD car...built according to rules is about 20 mph...the example below clocked 156 mph.....way faster then using CO2 cartridges....
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bob
Watch mark rober THEN make one