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I only use the BIN with the Make an Offer for my auctions. However, the difference between the two amounts aren't that far apart. At the same time, I don't over price my auctions.

I also have it set up where any offers below a certain amount will be automatically rejected...I don't want to waste time reviewing a $5 bid for a worlds car.

Regards,
highwayracer

I can't rib you over using them. The pristine dually I got off you that has the nice aluminum wheels, not so pristine any more. I set it up with a 12 turn geared hi, li-po, suburban body and lo profile tires and well, it does not handle good at insane speeds. I have more than scuffed those wheels and the chassis. And the suburban body. This was going to be a shelfer

12 turn motor and li-po in the dually? Why stop there, when you could just use a solid fuel rocket?





The Sees will get run, but not anything like that. I've got other trucks for beating on. I'm thinking a nice stock motor medium gearing, and having some fun on Sunday afternoons kind of running. Think "old-man's-r/c".

MelvinsArmy wrote:when you could just use a solid fuel rocket?

Exactly what I've been looking for! Do you have any schematics for controlling this with a servo lead that you could post???

Finally, I might make the damn A.

Bongo Fury wrote:

MelvinsArmy wrote:when you could just use a solid fuel rocket?

Exactly what I've been looking for! Do you have any schematics for controlling this with a servo lead that you could post???

Finally, I might make the damn A.

Or the fence

I found myself driving better results when I degraded to stock class. and that's along time ago when I still raced regularly. Not a hair on my head that thinks of buying any motor with less than 16 wounds

Mr. ED wrote:

Bongo Fury wrote:

MelvinsArmy wrote:when you could just use a solid fuel rocket?

Exactly what I've been looking for! Do you have any schematics for controlling this with a servo lead that you could post???

Finally, I might make the damn A.

Or the fence

The fence?!!! We're shootin for the moon baby!!! Or at least a huge fire ball on it's way to the moon.

Gotta agree with you though Ed. Faster is not always more fun on the track. The faster you travel, the faster you break parts, and the faster you end your day. I was racing TCs in parking lots with brushless motors. They were fun, but after a while they become insane. Soooo much power. It actually becomes less challenging from a driver's perspective, because the car is either hooked up and whips around the track like it's on rails, or it has some small problem and is left behind. They become point and shoot, and hope nothing stops in front of you. I've found that the most fun to be had racing is with matched Tamiya Mini Coopers, with Sport Tuned 540's. They're quick, but they're not surface to surface missiles. That's the kind of race where the best driver usually wins. Plus, they're funny to watch too, so that just adds to the fun.

Yeah, this is really obvious with 12th scale onroad. Back in the battery limited nicad days the fast way was to overgear and only use partial throttle, less brush friction, more efficient. And run real nice sweeping corners to avoid energy draining scrubbing and sliding. Always thought that looked so graceful and a lot like 1:1 race cars. Went to the carpet nats last year, the difference was startling, almost just hammer straight line from apex to apex. Nice to not have the battery wars anymore, but it really lost a lot of its scale appeal, I suspect you guys would understand.

Even in off road, high bite hard clay groove tracks have become the norm it seems. Lots of time we run slicks, very weird in many ways to an old guy. A couple of weeks ago our series was at a new track that was fairly loose dirt. Wow was that fun, rooster tails, power slides, all the things that hooked me on off road oh so many years ago. Even the traction lovers were grinning.

Cheers.

Bongo Fury wrote: Wow was that fun, rooster tails, power slides, all the things that hooked me on off road oh so many years ago. Even the traction lovers were grinning.

Cheers.

That's what it's all about. Heck, power slides (not drifting you young punks!) on concrete in a pinch is awesome as well. Getting a windshield full of dirt and rocks, or giving it is really one of the best thrills ever. I guess I'm lucky, I really haven't been exposed to this whole blue groove new style of racing, other than what I've seen on youtube. Screw traction. You want to find someone who really knows how to tune a car and drive it, put them in the marbles. Ah, the good old days. The gold old days.