Dragsters
Use screw eyes to keep dragsters on the track with monofilament line.
The Pitsco Education "The Race Car Book" is a full-color book that takes students through every step of the dragster design and construction process. Easy-to-understand text, color photos, and illustrations provide clear instruction. Includes special design hints and building tips. A flowchart relates the dragster design process to real-world car design. A final section on race preparation helps students maximize their cars’ performance in competition.
Makes dragster races like a day at the beach!
Use this bold blue towel to stop dragsters at the end of your track. Folded and carefully positioned, this towel provides the best stopping medium we have found. Towel is 24" x 44".
The Pitsco Wheel Deal is the ideal tool for CO2-dragster wheel assembly. The Wheel Deal is a hand tool designed with two comfortable presses – one for hub insertion into a wheel, the other for final assembly of the wheels, washers, and axles onto the dragster. We've even included axle-height locators as an added feature. No more stubborn hubs, broken wheels, or difficult axles!
The Wheel Deal is a unique four-in-one tool that simplifies the following tasks of dragster building:
This wheel from Pitsco is sure to enhance any dragster design. This modern five-spoke, star-styled, chrome hub provides the look your students want for their top-performing dragsters.
Along with the hub design, the Super C uses an exclusive snap-on rubber ring, manufactured for your CO2 dragsters! Use these wheels for the front of your dragster, along with the Nitro Chrome rear wheels, and you will have one sweet dragster!
Tires and hubs are shipped unassembled.
Students simply paint the hubs to match or complement their dragsters’ color. Tires and hubs are shipped unassembled. The hubs are white polystyrene. The Super C tires are snap-on rubber rings.
Students simply paint the hubs to match or complement their dragsters’ color. Tires and hubs are shipped unassembled. The hubs are white polystyrene. The Super C tires are snap-on rubber rings.
Use the strength of steel to mount your dragster’s wheels!
Designed to create more precise angles and tighter joints for balsa wood and basswood structures – as well as to deburr axles for dragsters – the Lil’ Termite Sander is a simple device to operate and clean. You and your students will be amazed at the difference the Lil’ Termite Sander makes on the overall strength and precision of structure joints.
To create angles for wood structure pieces, mark the desired angle on the wood piece, place it flat on the sanding table, and push the piece against the sanding disc until it is sanded to the marked line. Or, use the etched miter angles . . .
Use the strength of steel to mount your dragster’s wheels!
Pitsco LX Wheel takes on a more realistic, modern design while offering the speed of the GT series, Nitro, and C Wheels. One-piece construction provides durability.
The Lx (front) Wheel takes on a more realistic, modern design while offering the speed of the GT series, Nitro, and C Wheels. One-piece construction provides durability.
Pitsco PX Wheel embraces a more realistic, modern design while keeping all the speed of the GT series, Nitro, and C Wheels. One-piece construction provides durability. Available in a package of 2 or 100.
Pitsco PX Wheel embraces a more realistic, modern design while keeping all the speed of the GT series, Nitro, and C Wheels. One-piece construction provides durability. Available in a package of 2 or 100.
Power tool deficiency? Don’t worry about it! Now, even a CO2 dragster activity is possible without heavy-duty power tools. Pitsco does all the drilling and band saw work for you with the precut dragster blanks. Just use coping saws and sandpaper to fine-tune the basswood dragster’s shape, finish it as desired, and start the races.
Each basswood blank includes two car bodies rough cut to the Sportster shape – the car bodies break apart easily. Predrilled axle and cartridge holes enable students to concentrate on adding fine details and reducing the weight to increase style and performance. Requires wheels, axles, bushings, finish, and a race system, sold separately.
Note: These axle holes are drilled to use the Ultimate Axle Bushings, sold separately.
A unique reinterpretation of the CO2 dragster, these kits remove the need for power or cutting tools of any kind. Just assemble the dragsters from the laser-cut basswood parts and then glue, finish as desired, and launch!
EZ Build Dragsters are durable – they handle the same racing conditions as standard dragsters. And they provide a powerful activity for demonstrating force, motion, speed, friction, and acceleration.
EZ Build Dragsters launch on any standard CO2 race system with 4- or 8-gram cartridges and are available in four models – Zip, Zap, Zoom, and Zing – and a class pack that includes 32 complete kits.
Screwdriver and white glue required for assembly.