Skaldiddog's "Progress"

[ROWDY RACING]

Way cool Rowdy! Awesome. Thank you for giving me the opportunity. I'll do ya' proud!

Joel

You earned it, and no doubt you will do the team proud. "thumbsup"

 

[SkaldidDog]

Hey Joel, could you enlighten me on how you threaded the ti lower links. Thanks man."thumbsup"

I buy pre cut and threaded links from Lunsford Racing.

Hey Joel, how do you brush your teeth?

I see you smelled my breath early one AM last weekend.

J

 

[ittybitty]

Joel...what are you currently running for foams in the narrowed and reduced Voodoos? I read your writeup a few pages back about how they were performing, but I'm curious what you're finding works best so far.

 

[SkaldidDog]

Joel...what are you currently running for foams in the narrowed and reduced Voodoos? I read your writeup a few pages back about how they were performing, but I'm curious what you're finding works best so far.

Hey Ittybitty,

Mine are not narrowed. I'm sure there are better setups out there I just haven't explored them yet. This will not help much because you can't buy them in the state/form/condition I'm running. I'm running several year old thoroughly trashed dual stage pro-line buggy foams and several year old outers that are likely some old home made outers (non memory). They are brown and tired. CI soft outers (aged) work OK too but I went back to my vintage foams. New stuff has not held up under scrutiny. I will not comment on these so as to not turn folks off of a product. Either way my foams run and feel absolutely nothing like any new foam that you can buy. Sorry. This is why Eddie didn't like me sharing my setup (rightly so) because it can't be reproduced through purchase. Folks would buy stuff based on what I said and they'd get upset when it didn't work. I would not purchase any of what I said above and comp it while new. At least a year+ of aging is necessary. I'm trying to figure out a way to mechanically age foams so I'm always picking foams up here and there, destroying and then tossing them. I always end up back at vintage foams.

J

 

[TURBOFEST]

The older the berry, the sweeter the juice.

 

[ROWDY RACING]

The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice.

"thumbsup"

 

[SkaldidDog]

The older the berry, the sweeter the juice.

So true.

"thumbsup"

So Rowdy.

Hey Itty,

One more factor. My wheels support foam internally differently than most wheels due to their compression design. This makes my setup even more irrelevant to all. Just thought I'd confuse things further.

J

 

[Harvo]

Hey Ittybitty,

I'm trying to figure out a way to mechanically age foams so I'm always picking foams up here and there, destroying and then tossing them. I always end up back at vintage foams.

J

Water...saran wrap...3 days in the sun...hairdryer.... rinse and repeat :mrgreen:

 

[ROWDY RACING]

Fill your dryer with rocks, dirt and water, throw in foams and let er eat!

 

[michael]

Fill your dryer with rocks, dirt and water, throw in foams and let er eat!

Might be better off going to a laundry mat for that.

 

[ROWDY RACING]

Might be better off going to a laundry mat for that.

No your dryer works better...

 

[SkaldidDog]

Soak in Crown Royal (Clown Oil), chew thoroughly, repeat.

J

 

[stelerzman]

Just sent you a PM.

 

[Del Monte]

Soak in Crown Royal (Clown Oil), chew thoroughly, repeat.

J

Drink the Crown and put the foams in a Wraith for a year. Lather, rinse, repeat :mrgreen:

 

[RCHuffer]

"I'm trying to figure out a way to mechanically age foams" - what about in-between your mattresses on a good night??? :mrgreen: sorry someone left the door open...

 

[SkaldidDog]

"I'm trying to figure out a way to mechanically age foams" - what about in-between your mattresses on a good night??? :mrgreen: sorry someone left the door open...

You ain't right man.:ror:

J

 

[SkaldidDog]

Voogazzled with gold Hangers

This is not my idea, just my take on the idea. At Nats Manus showed me his Voodoos with additional stock pins glued to the inner sidewall of the front tires (someone may have posted this idea prior, please let me know and I'll give them credit). If I'm not mistaken, he quickly saw that the pins sheared off without much effort. I thought the idea had promise so I made some "Hangers" out of the strips left over from reducing a set of golds. I positioned the them in the gaps created by the outermost row of tread pins. You can see that they are square, larger in footprint and lower in profile than a stock pin. I did a whole set of tires so I can rotate them F/R. We'll see how they hold up and perform when the leading edge rounds off. I might be right were Manu was in short order. Time (one pack) will tell.

As you can kinda tell from the pics, Voodoos develop a central wear stripe that actually serves to flatten the contact patch some (worn pins in the middle, fuller pins on the outside). This may help with traction.

Cheers,

J

 

[Wicked Monkey]

Interested to hear your results from this little experiment. In theory it seems like it might give that little bit of extra bite when using the sidewall to grab. Wonder how it would work on the outside too?

 

[ROWDY RACING]

Everyone was looking for the best way to shave sidewalls, now we are trying to put them back on... :ror:

 

[SkaldidDog]

Interested to hear your results from this little experiment. In theory it seems like it might give that little bit of extra bite when using the sidewall to grab. Wonder how it would work on the outside too?

I am looking for grab (inner) without snag (outer).

Everyone was looking for the best way to shave sidewalls, now we are trying to put them back on... :ror:

True dat"thumbsup". I tried a completely bare sidewall set of Rovers, like many guys run, and found that I want a little more grab when using the inner sidewalls to pull up.