Now for the battery location question:
I have been getting a ton of questions on the battery location thing. To explain this further, we did it so all those on-road guys would not have any more excusues to come run oval with us, you like those sadlle packs, well here you go, lol, just kidding. The location of the batteries on this car came from a lot of days at the shop and at the track with full sized cars. If you look at a Winston Cup car for instance, they have a series of rails down the left side of the car where the teams add weight to balanace out the car the way they want and everybody runs all there weight at each end of the rails. They do this to keep the weight concentrated more toward the tire where it needs to be. This also allows them to move the weight in small increments to get the result they are looking for. After looking at this and comparing it to our little cars, we found that the cars are liking more and more left rear weight, especailly when running mod, but when doing this in our cars you move all the weight to the left rear and loose everything on the left front and that really hurts the turn in. With the batteries split like this you can get all your left rear weight but still have the ability to get more weight to the left front if needed. To give you an idea how important it is on big cars, guys have actually been filling the spindles with weight just to keep that left front on the ground becasuse they can't get enough weight in the rails, sounds stupid but they are doing it and as bad as I hate it becasue of unsrung weight, it does work, if you can get it thru tech with it, lol. As for moving the batteries side to side, how many times do you actually move the batteries in toward the center of the car. If you are doing this your car is not working right. Let's look at one of the fastest cars out there, supermodifieds. They have a ton of left side weight and if they could get more they would. In all my time with big cars I have never run a car with less left side weight then allowed, never, and if your little cars suspension is working right the more left side weight the better. I'm sure I will get some arguments on this but just think about it a bit and if it still does not make sense I will go into more detail.
Well time to stop rambling, let me know if anything does not make sense and I will try to explain further.
Thanks again for all the comments, keep them coming , good and bad, I love em.
Brent Redlin
Pro Parts, LLC.