Sprint Car Basics

แชร์
ฝัง
  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
  • Tec tips by Tmez! Only one race on the weekend I thought it would be cool to go over the Sprintcar and some of the basics on how we tune it. I talk a little bit about basic, set up and take a closer look at the Sprintcar. There is so much more to cover, but this is the basics. We hop in the studio and I talk about what’s to come this weekend as always thanks for watching and don’t forget to like and subscribe!

ความคิดเห็น • 104

  • @neilallen2144
    @neilallen2144 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Been around late models and modifieds in the late 80's early 90's. Hearing you talk about it shakes out a lot of cob webs and great memories!!!

    • @tmezTv
      @tmezTv  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Very cool! Like a old song that puts you sitting next to your dad headed to the race track when you were a kid!? Or the smell of a lawnmower that reminds you of go kart days. Priceless I love that.

  • @ray_s281
    @ray_s281 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for this excellent explanation!

  • @CJ24758
    @CJ24758 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Yes sir! Very educational for those that might not have known. Good work TMEZ. Good luck with the Outlaws. Slide or Die

    • @tmezTv
      @tmezTv  ปีที่แล้ว

      Cheers 🍻

  • @b.rocket
    @b.rocket ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Could listen to you all day.

    • @tmezTv
      @tmezTv  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Xoxo

  • @e.p.movius5339
    @e.p.movius5339 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for the reminders and memories. I’m 80 years old now and retired from non wing sprint racing in So Cal in 2003.
    I wish someone like you existed back then. Knowing this stuff is crucial 😊

  • @oldepoppop358
    @oldepoppop358 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great video knowledge is key.
    In car voice over of how and why is another favorite. Best of luck 👍

    • @tmezTv
      @tmezTv  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks 👍

  • @allenhammond7853
    @allenhammond7853 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Been a fan a long time. This is great.

  • @ericsmith1923
    @ericsmith1923 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Greatest you tube channel ever! Great tech video. I will apply a lot of this to my micro!

    • @tmezTv
      @tmezTv  ปีที่แล้ว

      Wow, thanks! You’re biased and I like that

  • @travisvolf1804
    @travisvolf1804 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great video thomas!! Thank you for sharing your knowledge of the car and setups

    • @tmezTv
      @tmezTv  ปีที่แล้ว

      No problem 👍

  • @Ottos_ScLm_Race_videos_2009_on
    @Ottos_ScLm_Race_videos_2009_on ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Tmex been watching and getting the results of you for a few years out of Cali. I live in Oregon. If you look at my name I have wingless car from 2009 to 2014 or so in Oregon and Elma WA. I have done everything on a sprint car but drive and I'm a little big in the tummy. LOL
    I love watching someone who knows how a sprint car works. And can tell you in simple terms.
    Keep up the videos.

    • @tmezTv
      @tmezTv  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sometimes I forget the world around me has no idea of how things go unless you have lived this life. I’m here to fill the gaps.

  • @Robert-h4w
    @Robert-h4w 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I learned so much great video

  • @keystoneroots
    @keystoneroots ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This awesome!! Not much on TH-cam explaining sprint cars like this

    • @tmezTv
      @tmezTv  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I appreciate that! I’m like a encyclopedia when it comes to sprint cars and midgets, total dumbass when it comes to anything else but I don’t mind :)

  • @1919champ
    @1919champ ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The black art of setting up a front running sprint car brought to you by Tmez, the King Of Kokomo. Cool video. Lots to chew on here. Good luck this weekend.

    • @tmezTv
      @tmezTv  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I’m really starting to get the hang of this TH-cam channel haha

  • @larrymiller1122
    @larrymiller1122 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great video Tmez. Good luck at I-55.

  • @mikegoodwin8983
    @mikegoodwin8983 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good class on sprint car setup. RIP THE LIP! 🏁🏆🇺🇸

    • @tmezTv
      @tmezTv  ปีที่แล้ว

      Cheers 🍻

  • @albondigas9549
    @albondigas9549 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    love the technical info.
    Thank you and good luck@I55.

  • @islandcharlie7132
    @islandcharlie7132 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks Tmez, good luck at the 55.

  • @joshuaman1126
    @joshuaman1126 ปีที่แล้ว

    That was the best quick tutorial I have gotten. Thanks so much ❤ it 🇺🇸🏁

  • @briancockrum5233
    @briancockrum5233 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love these video’s bro. Lots of geometry in those cars and more adjustments than a few! I can see where you could dial your car in, and I can see where you could dial it out! Pretty interesting.

    • @tmezTv
      @tmezTv  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Glad you like them!

  • @craigp13
    @craigp13 ปีที่แล้ว

    That was awesome!!!!

    • @tmezTv
      @tmezTv  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Appreciate it more to come. After we flipped the car, I made a video about how we thrash to get it back together, and I have to sq the car at the track. Fix a ruined fuel tank too

    • @craigp13
      @craigp13 ปีที่แล้ว

      @TmezTv not that I am excited that you did or want to see you trash a car but I can't wait for the video.

  • @jTurb02
    @jTurb02 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    2E. Love it. 2J here

  • @ShawnD__
    @ShawnD__ ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I hung out with the local 305 drivers last year for practice and heats and all the stuff going on between staggers, torsion bar adjustments, and even changing jet sizes as weather turned was kinda crazy. Never expected it to be so intricate

    • @tmezTv
      @tmezTv  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And everything affects each other

  • @RacingWithChuck27
    @RacingWithChuck27 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good stuff 👍

    • @tmezTv
      @tmezTv  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks for the visit

  • @PoliteSZN
    @PoliteSZN ปีที่แล้ว +3

    RIP JO

  • @toddfletcher64
    @toddfletcher64 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome

  • @EmersumBiggins
    @EmersumBiggins ปีที่แล้ว

    Great. Now that I’m too old to drive a sprint car, I know everything about it 😂

  • @TheCharillz23
    @TheCharillz23 ปีที่แล้ว

    How did I miss this.. great stuff! Ties right Into our .25

  • @allactionfilms7999
    @allactionfilms7999 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video I learned a lot drinking my coffee

  • @mariebeasley1269
    @mariebeasley1269 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good luck 👍 don't have Dirt Vision. Can't wait to see your footage 🤟 safe travels

    • @tmezTv
      @tmezTv  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Monday at 6 o’clock eastern standard time!!

  • @speedwaystevecronk6680
    @speedwaystevecronk6680 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for the TMez Tech time ! With the seat time comes knowledge what way to ajust. Best of Luck and Skill going Forward .

    • @tmezTv
      @tmezTv  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You bet! I only got fast when I started trying to understand what I liked and what the car wanted.

  • @thomasthesing7452
    @thomasthesing7452 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for the edgamacation

  • @Zilla23
    @Zilla23 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thx for the lesson . Well done .

    • @Zilla23
      @Zilla23 ปีที่แล้ว

      Temez is so Hewitt Style

  • @lloydlawson6876
    @lloydlawson6876 ปีที่แล้ว

    Perfect, Tech by Tmez!

  • @johnezell9808
    @johnezell9808 ปีที่แล้ว

    Git, go, show time, great round the underside

  • @rober4195
    @rober4195 ปีที่แล้ว

    That was very informative!

  • @Toxikbum
    @Toxikbum ปีที่แล้ว +2

    More tech vids

  • @unclebones2488
    @unclebones2488 ปีที่แล้ว

    great video Tmez thanks

    • @tmezTv
      @tmezTv  ปีที่แล้ว

      Glad you enjoyed

  • @tommyschirnhofer9696
    @tommyschirnhofer9696 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks Tmez. LAte models go between 5" and 6" offset on their RR tires, so some stuff does transfer over no matter what type of car.

    • @tmezTv
      @tmezTv  ปีที่แล้ว

      No doubt their wheel offset is wheel offset but with streetcars. It’s such different lingo.

  • @RussellAutosport
    @RussellAutosport ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Hey Tmez, thanks for the video. Shocks have always been something I never understood that well in sprint car land just because of the way the vocabulary is specific to sprint cars. When someone refers to say a 6-4 shock, do those numbers mean anything specific? I know they refer to comp and rebound and the higher number means a higher damping rate, but does that number mean anything specific? Or is it all relative? Are the numbers you talk about in the video (x number of pounds on each corner) the force values generated by the shock at 3 in/s? Also, have you ever experimented with variable rate shocks? i.e. having different damping rates in high speed and low speed compression or rebound.

    • @tmezTv
      @tmezTv  ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Your correct. 6/4 would be 6 on compression 100 pounds of force at 3” and a for on rebound would be maybe 60 of rebound. Each company has their own range of numbers referencing to the single digit numbers.

    • @manga12
      @manga12 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tmezTv sounds complecated as metalurgy in steel and blacksmithing.

  • @SF-ku2hp
    @SF-ku2hp 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice Honda foreman

  • @narwhalyt7231
    @narwhalyt7231 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    100% a different world when compared to asphalt. One question about terminology. When you say, "stick the right rear", are you talking about loading the LR so the RR stays gripped up for drive off or do you mean the literal loading of that right rear tire?
    Thanks for the vid, I hope you do a lot more of these, maybe going more in depth on each specific aspect of the sprint car setup.

    • @Ottos_ScLm_Race_videos_2009_on
      @Ottos_ScLm_Race_videos_2009_on ปีที่แล้ว

      You answered your own question; The lateral loading of the right rear tire.

    • @tmezTv
      @tmezTv  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Loading the rr. If you can stick the right rear on a sprint car, it will almost not slide on entry but halfway through the corner it will want to start over rotate off.

    • @narwhalyt7231
      @narwhalyt7231 ปีที่แล้ว

      Got it, thank you both for the replies.

  • @rocketcuse
    @rocketcuse ปีที่แล้ว

    Another awesome video. Possible topic for you next tech video, I thought you were going to talk about it when you started talking about tires...some first timers may not know...maybe talk about why Sprints run a larger right rear and tire compounds?

  • @timpanosh1305
    @timpanosh1305 ปีที่แล้ว

    Class from the Bad@ss

  • @johnezell9808
    @johnezell9808 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Interesting, all this is done with a pipewrench and 4# hammer?

  • @bholtmeier
    @bholtmeier ปีที่แล้ว +2

    ....As always....Like and Subscribe. There, i finished it. :D

    • @tmezTv
      @tmezTv  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Haha I sometimes miss that!!

  • @davidaarons2488
    @davidaarons2488 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great explanation T-Mez, if the steering were tighter would that help or is it harder to drive? Show them who's boss Lol and rip it

  • @burlapX
    @burlapX ปีที่แล้ว

    👍

  • @Sean_Dennis
    @Sean_Dennis ปีที่แล้ว

    So you like to run right rear weight, not many do. Also instead of adding weight on the corner by putting turns in, I find it better to put a stiffer bar in that corner and keep the car straight off the setup blocks. Also you can preload the bar just with a shock, if you are holding the car down with a tie down shock, it loads the bar and helps to keep the load on a linear scale, keeping the tire driving into the track.

    • @ackack2560
      @ackack2560 ปีที่แล้ว

      He might be chasing tube heights aswell.

    • @Ottos_ScLm_Race_videos_2009_on
      @Ottos_ScLm_Race_videos_2009_on ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Reading this, do you race a sprint car or is it off a sim game?

    • @tmezTv
      @tmezTv  ปีที่แล้ว

      To each their own, everybody finds a way that works for them. I typically run a pair of even bars, but with a turn in the right rear, always minimum.

    • @ackack2560
      @ackack2560 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tmezTv pair of even bars in the back you should still have a split in the rear with the RR arm being shorter than the left. I could be completely wrong , great video as always

  • @Brad-S
    @Brad-S ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great job Tmex. Thank you so much. But I'd like to ask you one question. Why the small left and large right rear tires? I used to think it was to load the left side of the car. But now I think it maybe for a rear steer kind of effect to help in the turns.

    • @5off5onRFK
      @5off5onRFK ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah it’s stagger. Pushes you around the corner. You use more ( larger RR) at a flat banked track and less ( smaller RR ) at a banked track

    • @Brad-S
      @Brad-S ปีที่แล้ว

      @@5off5onRFK Thank you!

    • @5off5onRFK
      @5off5onRFK ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Brad-S 👍🏼👍🏼

    • @Ottos_ScLm_Race_videos_2009_on
      @Ottos_ScLm_Race_videos_2009_on ปีที่แล้ว

      Stagger only works when you are on the throttle. Think of a paper cup, large up top, small on the bottom. Lay it on it's side it will go in a circle.

    • @tmezTv
      @tmezTv  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Definitely we start with 11 inches of stagger and typically race on about eight or nine if it is slick so you are indeed correct without the small left rear tire of the car would not turn because straight axle no differential spool

  • @stonedragonracing4474
    @stonedragonracing4474 ปีที่แล้ว

    Tmez do you adjust your shocks a fuel burns of during a main?

  • @billy9995
    @billy9995 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Dont worry tmez i wont be tellin anyone about this 😂🤣 quite simple machines that get really complicated....the little shit matters, i get confused when doubling turns up. Do you plan on driving wingless for sweet chin music sean Michaels in pa this year?

    • @tmezTv
      @tmezTv  ปีที่แล้ว

      I will be back in the 20

    • @billy9995
      @billy9995 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tmezTv i was hoping you were gonna say that, running the big wheel makes total sense to me now.

  • @BadGoat92
    @BadGoat92 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How do the blocks not fall out?

  • @Jimmy.Jardine
    @Jimmy.Jardine 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Are these explanations valid for asphalt sprint cars or is this info primarily for dirt cars?

    • @tmezTv
      @tmezTv  23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      The changes are similar

  • @BraelonM
    @BraelonM ปีที่แล้ว

    How much for you to come to fremont ohio on a weekend you’re not racing get my old man n i a better understanding of what adjustments to make to suite the track & his driving style. Also lets rip some laps n my kart before the races 🤣🤣

  • @richardlay1492
    @richardlay1492 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Why have someone try to change the front end late model have so much more technology in there cars

  • @chuckspicerainsworth7555
    @chuckspicerainsworth7555 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Replace that rear axle before it bites you in the ass!

  • @Row02
    @Row02 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome

  • @billmcmillan7735
    @billmcmillan7735 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Very interesting I have been a sprint car fan for 50 years. Your video is the first explanation of how these cars work. Will probably have to watch many more times before I remember everything! 😂

    • @fivecitydirttracker4776
      @fivecitydirttracker4776 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's nice he kept it plain and simple. Cause,.......I like simple...lol
      Thanks Tmez

    • @tmezTv
      @tmezTv  ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Glad it was helpful! More tec videos to come I barely touched the surface

    • @beardbrothersracing785
      @beardbrothersracing785 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tmezTvhey tmez, I’d love to see some more of these on the sprint cars! Also, if xtreme comes back to doe run next year we hope to see ya there! We run Modlites and we’re all hoping to see ya🤙

  • @dirtracingnz
    @dirtracingnz ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome

  • @edminas3159
    @edminas3159 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you so much. That piece was really interesting.