Sprint Car Basics

[@billmcmillan7735]

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]

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

[@tmezTv]

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

[@beardbrothersracing785]

@@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🤙

[@CJ24758]

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

[@tmezTv]

Cheers 🍻

[@ray_s281]

Thank you for this excellent explanation!

[@allenhammond7853]

Been a fan a long time. This is great.

[@neilallen2144]

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]

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.

[@b.rocket]

Could listen to you all day.

[@tmezTv]

Xoxo

[@ericsmith1923]

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

[@tmezTv]

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

[@larrymiller1122]

Great video Tmez. Good luck at I-55.

[@joshuaman1126]

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

[@travisvolf1804]

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

[@tmezTv]

No problem 👍

[@oldepoppop358]

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

[@tmezTv]

Thanks 👍

[@albondigas9549]

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

[@e.p.movius5339]

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 😊

[@1919champ]

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]

I’m really starting to get the hang of this KZbin channel haha

[@rober4195]

That was very informative!

[@edminas3159]

Thank you so much. That piece was really interesting.

[@Ottos_ScLm_Race_videos_2009_on]

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]

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.

[@briancockrum5233]

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]

Glad you like them!

[@keystoneroots]

This awesome!! Not much on KZbin explaining sprint cars like this

[@tmezTv]

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 :)

[@islandcharlie7132]

Thanks Tmez, good luck at the 55.

[@Robert-h4w]

I learned so much great video

[@TheCharillz23]

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

[@ShawnD__]

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]

And everything affects each other

[@allactionfilms7999]

Great video I learned a lot drinking my coffee

[@mikegoodwin8983]

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

[@tmezTv]

Cheers 🍻

[@lloydlawson6876]

Perfect, Tech by Tmez!

[@RacingWithChuck27]

Good stuff 👍

[@tmezTv]

Thanks for the visit

[@speedwaystevecronk6680]

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

[@tmezTv]

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

[@RussellAutosport]

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]

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]

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

[@craigp13]

That was awesome!!!!

[@tmezTv]

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]

@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.

[@Zilla23]

Thx for the lesson . Well done .

[@Zilla23]

Temez is so Hewitt Style

[@mariebeasley1269]

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

[@tmezTv]

Monday at 6 o’clock eastern standard time!!

[@PoliteSZN]

RIP JO

[@narwhalyt7231]

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]

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

[@tmezTv]

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]

Got it, thank you both for the replies.

[@jTurb02]

2E. Love it. 2J here

[@rocketcuse]

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?

[@tommyschirnhofer9696]

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]

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

[@unclebones2488]

great video Tmez thanks

[@tmezTv]

Glad you enjoyed

[@thomasthesing7452]

Thanks for the edgamacation

[@Brad-S]

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.

[@Emoleski]

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]

@@Emoleski Thank you!

[@Emoleski]

@@Brad-S 👍🏼👍🏼

[@Ottos_ScLm_Race_videos_2009_on]

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]

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]

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

[@johnezell9808]

Git, go, show time, great round the underside

[@Toxikbum]

More tech vids

[@dirtracingnz]

Awesome

[@davidaarons2488]

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

[@SF-ku2hp]

Nice Honda foreman

[@BadGoat92]

How do the blocks not fall out?

[@johnezell9808]

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

[@tmezTv]

If that’s all that’s available. Yes!

[@ronfox5519]

#4 metric. 5 3/16 English

[@Ottos_ScLm_Race_videos_2009_on]

@@ronfox5519 Lol

[@burlapX]

👍

[@billy9995]

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]

I will be back in the 20

[@billy9995]

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

[@Sean_Dennis]

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]

He might be chasing tube heights aswell.

[@Ottos_ScLm_Race_videos_2009_on]

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

[@tmezTv]

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]

@@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

[@timpanosh1305]

Class from the Bad@ss

[@bholtmeier]

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

[@tmezTv]

Haha I sometimes miss that!!

[@Jimmy.Jardine]

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

[@tmezTv]

The changes are similar

[@BraelonM]

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 🤣🤣

[@chuckspicerainsworth7555]

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

[@richardlay1492]

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

[@EmersumBiggins]

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

[@toddfletcher64]

Awesome

[@Row02]

Awesome