I've never tried a pin in palm drill because I figured that you need head oil and lots of it in order for this drill to work unless you have no hand at all, right ??  How would this drill differ from an pin axis drill in terms of getting through the front.  

What I see in Tucson is dry, dry and more dry.  So I'm usually piping it straight and hard to control the backends or wheelin' and dealin', depending on where the traffic is on the lanes that day.  Layouts are usually long pins in order to get it throught the front consistently.   If I ever saw true heavy oil, I would consider a drill like this, but it hasn't happenend yet.

My PAP is somewhere in the 5.5" over range.

Edited on 3/28/2008 12:45 PM

So what you're saying is that  the pin-to-pap distance is what determines length and how high or low the pin is determines how aggressive it is off of the friction.  Based on that, it could definitely be used to control over/under and when the backends are just ridiculously snappy.  It might be something I want to consider because I'm in the process of buying a second rival to complement my first one and something like this might be a better choice than something close to a pin axis drill, which was my original intent.  

Thanks Dan, I always thought that pin height determined length more than the pin to PAP distance.  Based on this discussion, it's appears to be the other way around.

One more question, what kind of pin to CG length and topweight work better for this kind of layout ??

Edited on 3/28/2008 1:02 PM