PBR Allstar wrote:C'mon now Greg,, You know I only use the finest in 2nd rate cheap chinese lipo packs!lowrydesign wrote:thats not powered by a "reject pack" is it......lol
Ouch, that sucks. Is the car OK? LOLPBR Allstar wrote:Sorry I haven't been around for a little bit. Got the race car all finished up, went to the races, qualified well, crashed in the heat race which netted me a broken back and a ride to the nearest hospital in the back of a meat wagon! I'm gonna be okay, crushed T4/T5 and chipped c7. spent seven days in the hospital flat on my back, and will be out of work and commision for the most part for the next two months. here are some pics for your veiwing pleasure!
The DS is a bit narrow for dirt ovals, if you are trying to run against regular-width cars. There was a spec class for them at my LHS years ago, but it died out within a year like pretty much every spec class they ever tried (Legends, parking long racing, etc. I expect the Losi sprinters and late models to be dead soon too). Guys also tried making 'staggered' cars with RC10 buggy arms on the right and DS arms on the left, but nobody ever really stuck with it. For the heck of it I actually built a rolling chassis with DS arms on the left and RC10T arms on the right, with a mid-mounted motor on a graphite chassis, but I never got it running.markt311 wrote:It's nice to have a place for dirt oval stuff.
My question is: I just picked up a Dual Sport and I was thinking about making it a dirt oval car, What class would it convert to the best? They run bombers and Sprint cars mostly right now, they're trying to get a latemodel class going but I don't want to have the only one out there. Bombers they want your car to be truck based and they limit the tires to street tires, I'm not real keen on that class cause they are always really loose. How would it do as a sprint car?
They run car bodies, like chevy belairs and stuff like that, they are really ugly though and the spec tires make the racing close, but they handle like turds.SteveK wrote:The DS is a bit narrow for dirt ovals, if you are trying to run against regular-width cars. There was a spec class for them at my LHS years ago, but it died out within a year like pretty much every spec class they ever tried (Legends, parking long racing, etc. I expect the Losi sprinters and late models to be dead soon too). Guys also tried making 'staggered' cars with RC10 buggy arms on the right and DS arms on the left, but nobody ever really stuck with it. For the heck of it I actually built a rolling chassis with DS arms on the left and RC10T arms on the right, with a mid-mounted motor on a graphite chassis, but I never got it running.markt311 wrote:It's nice to have a place for dirt oval stuff.
My question is: I just picked up a Dual Sport and I was thinking about making it a dirt oval car, What class would it convert to the best? They run bombers and Sprint cars mostly right now, they're trying to get a latemodel class going but I don't want to have the only one out there. Bombers they want your car to be truck based and they limit the tires to street tires, I'm not real keen on that class cause they are always really loose. How would it do as a sprint car?
What bodies would they run in the 'bomber' class?
I messed with a few different layouts for cars and trucks for oval racing. I started with a standard truck with Pro-Line Strikers, which was basically the 'spec' tire for the LHS. Then I bought enough parts to turn it into a buggy with an Easter Dirt Modified body, which was built with the tranny turned around, and it was on an RC10T graphite chassis so the front was narrowed down to fit the front of the chassis. The next layout was a mid-motor 10T on the same chassis, with Factory Works front and rear shock towers and supermodified truck body (good stuff BTW, definitely check out his site), and then the radically offset car with the same old EDM body. I really wasn't wild about racing there, mostly the "pay $10 for two heats and a main", so mostly I just built stuff to see how it would look.markt311 wrote:They run car bodies, like chevy belairs and stuff like that, they are really ugly though and the spec tires make the racing close, but they handle like turds.SteveK wrote:The DS is a bit narrow for dirt ovals, if you are trying to run against regular-width cars. There was a spec class for them at my LHS years ago, but it died out within a year like pretty much every spec class they ever tried (Legends, parking long racing, etc. I expect the Losi sprinters and late models to be dead soon too). Guys also tried making 'staggered' cars with RC10 buggy arms on the right and DS arms on the left, but nobody ever really stuck with it. For the heck of it I actually built a rolling chassis with DS arms on the left and RC10T arms on the right, with a mid-mounted motor on a graphite chassis, but I never got it running.markt311 wrote:It's nice to have a place for dirt oval stuff.
My question is: I just picked up a Dual Sport and I was thinking about making it a dirt oval car, What class would it convert to the best? They run bombers and Sprint cars mostly right now, they're trying to get a latemodel class going but I don't want to have the only one out there. Bombers they want your car to be truck based and they limit the tires to street tires, I'm not real keen on that class cause they are always really loose. How would it do as a sprint car?
What bodies would they run in the 'bomber' class?
I'm probably just going to put some buggy arms on the DS and cut a chassis out of G10 and make it into a sprinter or late model, which ever class has the most people in it. Mid motor sounds like an interesting idea, I built a car way back with a mid motor and a 6 gear tranny but I never ran it before I gave it away. I think I had all of $40 invested into it.
SteveK wrote:Ouch, that sucks. Is the car OK? LOLPBR Allstar wrote:Sorry I haven't been around for a little bit. Got the race car all finished up, went to the races, qualified well, crashed in the heat race which netted me a broken back and a ride to the nearest hospital in the back of a meat wagon! I'm gonna be okay, crushed T4/T5 and chipped c7. spent seven days in the hospital flat on my back, and will be out of work and commision for the most part for the next two months. here are some pics for your veiwing pleasure!
Glad you're not permanently injured. I hope you didn't do anything rash like get rid of all your equipment right away; every time I hear of somebody doing that, it costs them a lot more to buy all new stuff when they get back into it.
yeah, not really sure what happened Todd, first off the race was a "run what ya brung" outlaw non wing race, and I was running a limited carburated car, so immediately I was down a couple hundred horsepower at best, I ran well at the race last year so I figured we could make the show and at least pay for us to be there. Anyway, I started on the pole of my heat, with a couple USAC cars (there was a big two day USAC show on saturday and sunday a couple hours away at Calistoga, so some of those guys were at the track on friday for this show) next to and behind me. I figured they would kill me on the start, but if I could run in the transfer of my heat I'd be okay. That was pretty much exactally what happened, I settled into fourth place after the second lap and kind of figured that's where we'd run, which was the last transfer spot. then, on the fourth lap entering turn three I set the car and it went in really nice, then when I went back to the gas she got up on the RR tire a little, I'm not sure whether the car jumped the cushion a little or just got really good bite on the RR tire, but either way I thought I felt it bicycle a little so I got out of the gas to settle the car, and then the thing just snapped towards the wall and hooked the left side and went over harder than anything I've ever felt. It flipped once really hard and landed with the top of the cage down on the corner of the concrete wall, then fliped one and a half times after that (or so I'm told). I don't remember a single thing after the car started the violent flip other than the sound of the front axle being torn out of the car, but apparently I was able to get myself out of the car and walk back to my pit stall. Back at my pit I sat down and my guys instantly got the officials to get the medics over. Aside from being white as a ghost my crew cheif said one of my pupils was about the size of a dime while he couldn't even find the other one. Once the Paramedics showed up they did the usual, asked me my name, where I was, my birthday, and how old I was. I only managed 50% on those questions, I was also complaing about pain in my back and chest. They loaded me on the spine board like you see in the pic and from there it was off to the hospital in the back of the meat wagon. I remember most of the ambulance ride, and the medics were kind enough to pull down my fire suit to start the IV rather than cutting it off. So yeah, that's about it. the next week was spent flat on my back in a cervical thoratic body brace, I'm off my back now, but get to keep that brace for a couple months 24-7.klavy69 wrote:I don't use this word often but...DUDE!
I'm thinkin you should've zigged when you zagged but in the end hope you get better soon...or at least what you can do...you know what I mean...
Todd
chassis with DS arms on the left and RC10T arms on the right with off set battery is a car i always wanted to make!!! any pics of this?? if not what front end did you use?? i was thinking buggy or maybe ds..do the ds arms fit on buggy front end without mods or do you have to trim the mount???SteveK wrote:The DS is a bit narrow for dirt ovals, if you are trying to run against regular-width cars. There was a spec class for them at my LHS years ago, but it died out within a year like pretty much every spec class they ever tried (Legends, parking long racing, etc. I expect the Losi sprinters and late models to be dead soon too). Guys also tried making 'staggered' cars with RC10 buggy arms on the right and DS arms on the left, but nobody ever really stuck with it. For the heck of it I actually built a rolling chassis with DS arms on the left and RC10T arms on the right, with a mid-mounted motor on a graphite chassis, but I never got it running.markt311 wrote:It's nice to have a place for dirt oval stuff.
My question is: I just picked up a Dual Sport and I was thinking about making it a dirt oval car, What class would it convert to the best? They run bombers and Sprint cars mostly right now, they're trying to get a latemodel class going but I don't want to have the only one out there. Bombers they want your car to be truck based and they limit the tires to street tires, I'm not real keen on that class cause they are always really loose. How would it do as a sprint car?
What bodies would they run in the 'bomber' class?
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