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Re: Traction trouble

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Originally Posted by andy
Lemme elaborate James,

We have roughly 130 ft/lbs of torque per wheel, we move at a top speed of about 8 ft/sec. We have plenty of power, but we cannot get the power to the ground, we are doing burnouts and skidding on carpet. We are looking into other wheel options, we are looking at things like gokart slicks and solid urathane skyways.

Thoughts?

-Andy
My thoughts would be two front gokart slicks and then for the back have a wheel with lots of forwards traction but not much side to side traction so you can turn. We used 4 gokart slicks last year. See the picture. We ended up putting caster on cyclinders to drop down when we wanted to turn a lot. We were reseting breakers. So these would be great for the front but find a better way for them to slide in back with out giving up the traction forwards. Maybe fully inflating them would help some though.
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