Mouse Trap Racer!

If you have that need for speed, try making your mousetrap car project a mouse trap racer. Unlike it’s cousin, the mouse trap distance car, the mouse trap racer is built for one thing, and one thing only: speed!

After you’ve learned about the basic design of a mouse trap car, there are two very distinct directions you can go with your mouse trap car designs. As we mentioned, the mouse trap distance car is built to see which car can go the farthest. However, almost at the opposite end of the engineering spectrum is the mouse trap racer.
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Grab Your Sunglasses, It’s Time To Race your mouse trap racer! 

Everything changes with the mouse trap racer: the wheel to axle ration, the spring lever arm length, the wheel size and more. Of course your typical physics principles apply, such as reducing weight and reducing friction, but there are some definite tips to building your mouse trap car so that it goes faster, rather than farther.

Now our family has put about a dozen year’s experience and a score’s worth of mouse trap car building into an all inclusive guide that takes you step by step through the process of building either a mouse trap racer or a mouse trap distance car.

For more information, check out the highly recommended Mouse Trap Racer car kits above!

Mouse Trap Racer!

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