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How could I align my car this year, cause the car doesn't go straight anymore? I was thing to just have visual ads, like "eye-it", but thats not that accurate!

kendreaditya wrote:How could I align my car this year, cause the car doesn't go straight anymore? I was thing to just have visual ads, like "eye-it", but thats not that accurate!

Well, it's possible to go that route, but you really need to experiment with what works best for you.

kendreaditya wrote:How could I align my car this year, cause the car doesn't go straight anymore? I was thing to just have visual ads, like "eye-it", but thats not that accurate!

Generally (or so I've heard from others) you build the car to turn slightly as it runs, and then test different angles to see what distances it intersects the midline at for each angle.

Unome wrote:

kendreaditya wrote:How could I align my car this year, cause the car doesn't go straight anymore? I was thing to just have visual ads, like "eye-it", but thats not that accurate!

Generally (or so I've heard from others) you build the car to turn slightly as it runs, and then test different angles to see what distances it intersects the midline at for each angle.

Yep, this is basically what we used. It does entail a lot of experimentation, as you have to determine what works for your car (which is mostly what I meant by my previous comment, sorry if it was unclear).

dragon_fruit35 wrote:

Unome wrote:

kendreaditya wrote:How could I align my car this year, cause the car doesn't go straight anymore? I was thing to just have visual ads, like "eye-it", but thats not that accurate!

Generally (or so I've heard from others) you build the car to turn slightly as it runs, and then test different angles to see what distances it intersects the midline at for each angle.

Yep, this is basically what we used. It does entail a lot of experimentation, as you have to determine what works for your car (which is mostly what I meant by my previous comment, sorry if it was unclear).

No its ok, I at least understood. But is there any other ways. How are you aligning your car? Right now I have 2 pieces of wood going horizontally across my System with both have a line marked on it in the middle!

kendreaditya wrote:

dragon_fruit35 wrote:

Unome wrote: Generally (or so I've heard from others) you build the car to turn slightly as it runs, and then test different angles to see what distances it intersects the midline at for each angle.

Yep, this is basically what we used. It does entail a lot of experimentation, as you have to determine what works for your car (which is mostly what I meant by my previous comment, sorry if it was unclear).

No its ok, I at least understood. But is there any other ways. How are you aligning your car? Right now I have 2 pieces of wood going horizontally across my System with both have a line marked on it in the middle!

When I did Wheeled with a similar challenge, I used a protractor. But that may not work as well in your design, I don't really know.

I just found bonus score at wiki page but not on the official rule book. Do we have the bonus rule now?

"The Bonus Score is -100 and is earned if the competitors can successfully pass their ETV around the left side of a #3 can (placed halfway along the track to the terminal barrier, offset .5 meters left of the center of the track) while remaining within the track the entire run."

Thanks a lot!

homeudream wrote:I just found bonus score at wiki page but not on the official rule book. Do we have the bonus rule now?

"The Bonus Score is -100 and is earned if the competitors can successfully pass their ETV around the left side of a #3 can (placed halfway along the track to the terminal barrier, offset .5 meters left of the center of the track) while remaining within the track the entire run."

Thanks a lot!

That info may be from 2015, since that's when a lot of the Scrambler wiki was written (I don't know for sure, and don't have rules with me right now).

Unome wrote:

homeudream wrote:I just found bonus score at wiki page but not on the official rule book. Do we have the bonus rule now?

"The Bonus Score is -100 and is earned if the competitors can successfully pass their ETV around the left side of a #3 can (placed halfway along the track to the terminal barrier, offset .5 meters left of the center of the track) while remaining within the track the entire run."

Thanks a lot!

That info may be from 2015, since that's when a lot of the Scrambler wiki was written (I don't know for sure, and don't have rules with me right now).

Nothing on this site is official nor an extension of the rules. Even the resources attached on the official website (soinc.org) are not to be treated as extensions to rules. The only rules are the ones in the rules manual for this season and the rules changes/FAQs posted on the national website.

Is there, or can anyone post, the scoring spreadsheet for this year? There was one last year, but not for this year at https://www.soinc.org/scrambler_b