Is this a shelfer, or are you going to race it? I recently started oval racing. I am going to try using a FWD touring car just to see if I can make it work, but looking at this and the Viper, I think I made a mistake. That thing would fly around our track! I should have gotten a vintage pan car
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I didn't get to race, but I ran a few practice sessions with my Storm 2000 oval car/truck thingy. I had only run it once before. It was supremely underpowered with a HW 17.5 blinky setup, so it handled like a dream. It just couldn't go fast enough to reveal any handling problems.
Swapping the 17.5 for a 13.5 solved the power issue, and created handling problems. I messed around with toe, camber, and ride height enough to get it working at the higher speeds. My lap times ranged from 6.5-7 before. It was consistently under 6 after, and clocked a 5.4 on one exceptional lap.
I don't yet know much about this truck, what adjustments I can make, etc. For some reason, I have it in my head that I should make it work as well as I can before touching the shocks. It still has 4 "long" shocks with soft springs light oil, exactly the opposite of what it needs on a carpet oval.
Swapping the 17.5 for a 13.5 solved the power issue, and created handling problems. I messed around with toe, camber, and ride height enough to get it working at the higher speeds. My lap times ranged from 6.5-7 before. It was consistently under 6 after, and clocked a 5.4 on one exceptional lap.
I don't yet know much about this truck, what adjustments I can make, etc. For some reason, I have it in my head that I should make it work as well as I can before touching the shocks. It still has 4 "long" shocks with soft springs light oil, exactly the opposite of what it needs on a carpet oval.
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That's an awesome looking Litesink! The black and green is an excellent scheme. Maybe a purple and green body to go with it?BattleTrak wrote: ↑Tue Feb 28, 2023 2:44 am I installed a new, rear 7-hole bulkhead and a nice used Litespeed Litesink motor plate on my custom black & green Losi JrxPro build.. it really completes the look I have been going for! This also has a Thorp filled gearbox and Losi Slipper.
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It's time to stand up to the bully. Support the companies that support the industry, not the ones that tear it down. Say no to Traxxas
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Looks fantastic Jeff!! Hope some of my "reviewing" (IE whining about small details) helped out!!
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Of course! The hard part is implementing changes since GoDaddy has everything really locked down. It's like if Apple made a website design tool
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The current plan is oval fun runner. I don't think I have any local oval courses, but I would love to just run on some open dirt around here and see how it does. It is meant to be kinda 50/50 new/old, so it won't be any competitor, but it would be nice to just run and improve it without losing the point of its origin. See if it has a class and run the best I can within it.
I did get a little more work done on it today. The batt tray is kinda trick, and I think it will work out well. The tray has grooves on the bottom that drop nicely into a couple of the batt cutouts in the chassis to hold the whole thing on the X and Y, and then there are a couple of more slits in it to strap it down to the chassis with good ol' filament tape, just like the Associated manual would have instructed. Then a couple of ol' school RC10 batt straps to keep the battery in its holder.
Also got into the rear body mount, which will screw down completely on to the trans. I was a little off on my dimensions (not shocking at all!!) on the front mounts, so they are not pictured, but hopefully the next one will work out. Edit: Revised front mounts worked out just fine.
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Especially if someone took your thumbs....
Osiris is the key.
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I love it! I really wish I had thought to do something similar.morrisey0 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 02, 2023 8:11 pm
The current plan is oval fun runner. I don't think I have any local oval courses, but I would love to just run on some open dirt around here and see how it does. It is meant to be kinda 50/50 new/old, so it won't be any competitor, but it would be nice to just run and improve it without losing the point of its origin. See if it has a class and run the best I can within it.
I have 3 oval tracks within an hour. There are really no classes for me to race in either, so I am staying in Novice until they boot me out. It is the only "run what ya brung" class. So far I have "won" (it is Novice, so not really winning anything) with a Top Cat, a Cougar Mk1, a KF2, and a Storm 2000. I am trying to run all of my vintage stuff while I can. The XLS is next up if they allow 4WD.
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I spent a little more time on the Storm getting it ready for the next race. I also cleaned and prepped the truck tires for when I retire it from racing and make it a back yard runner. I have a truck body for it too, but I am not that fond of it. It is from the new-ish Storm ST. It is pretty hideous in box art, so I am trying to think of a paint scheme that will hide or transcend the basic shape. Original bodies are available in the UK, but shipping is more than the body.
Enough of that, though! What I did RC that is worthy of a mention is running my box art Bosscat. I don't run it much, but it is such a treat when I do.
Enough of that, though! What I did RC that is worthy of a mention is running my box art Bosscat. I don't run it much, but it is such a treat when I do.
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Looks fantastic, love seeing pics. Works great !!GoMachV wrote: ↑Thu Mar 02, 2023 6:43 pm Today I finally updated the old website. It works now
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Who do you race for ?
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That’s impossible, I was told you need a sponsor to race.
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Me……. I race for me.
That’s impossible, I was told you need a sponsor to race.
Hey Cru ! Go balls out
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I spent last evening scraping and replacing the decals on my sprint car. Everything is vinyl that I cut out on my wife's Cricut machine. The "Cali Dirt Videos" decal on the wing is from an awesome Youtube site (shameless plug!)....I sent a pic of the previous version to the guy, and he sent those to me. That's it as far as anything RC related I've done, lately. I'm kind of between ideas.
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morrisey0 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 02, 2023 8:11 pm
The current plan is oval fun runner. I don't think I have any local oval courses, but I would love to just run on some open dirt around here and see how it does. It is meant to be kinda 50/50 new/old, so it won't be any competitor, but it would be nice to just run and improve it without losing the point of its origin. See if it has a class and run the best I can within it.
Could you explain what you did to the gearbox/rear suspension setup? I'm curious...It almost looks like something I did with my sprint car.
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I can try, but probably not very well. It is quite a hodge podge, and hard to describe.
The gearbox is DR/RB-10, flipped around, and mounted to a printed adapter / bulkhead that ends up fastening to the original six 8-32 chassis holes. The susp arms are stock RC-10, but the arm mounts are stock style and printed to be wider. The arm mounts have been widened so I can run stock DR/RB-10 65mm CVAs. The outer hubs are DR/RB-10 narrowed down a bit to fit the RC-10 arms. Turnbuckle ballcups are DR/RB-10, but the turnbuckles themselves are some cheap Amazon guys (the shortest I could find and will probably be shortened). The shock tower is a lowered oval version from factoryworks.com The shocks are stock DR-10M, which is a car I didn't even know existed until I found those shocks.
So far, everything on the chassis is AE, aftermarket made for AE (factoryworks, Andy's, etc), or printed at home.
BTW, your Sprint car looks great, and I am glad to see someone else getting into using a Cricut for RC. I have done LOADS of vinyl cutouts and sticker paper prints / cuts with my Cricut, and have had a blast with it! My FXMT was done with all vinyl cutouts: And all of the decals (outside of the small sponsor stickers) on my Round Tracker were printed and cut at home:
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