We have raced Quarter Midget for a couple seasons now and have recently bought a couple Bandolero cars for our boys to start practicing with now and race with later on. I have a few questions around setting the cars up for them. I have already gone through most of the guides I could find online regarding lead installation, buying the cars...etc, but still have a few thoughts I wanted to throw out there and see if anyone could give me their opinion.
One of our two drivers is pretty small (50lbs and 48" tall). Most of the seats I am seeing have a pretty decent recline angle to them, but I don't know that I can have him reclining that much and still see out of the car adequately to driver. Are people with smaller drivers sitting them more upright in the Bandos for this reason?
His car has the extended pedals which is going to help, but they area already almost all the way back against the cross bar and I still need to get a few more inches out of them. Would it ok to move them just behind the cross bar which is going to have them be right in front of the steering rack? I realize to do that, I am going to have to make new linkages for the throttle and brake, but I am familiar with that because I had to do that for his Quarter Midget too. Also, a guy at the track said something about shorter steering shafts that would move the wheel further forward, but I haven't seen those anywhere online. Does anyone know if they make those, or is it ok for me to cut the one down in the car and make it shorter?
Our other driver is a little bit bigger so just having the extended pedals and moving the seat up should work for him. I appreciate any information anyone could share to help us get going.