Bay City or Tri Citys MI

[dasmonkeyboy]

A couple guys were asking - here are some pics I dug up:

http://www.hobbytalk.com/bbs1/showthread.php?t=238007&page=23

Looks pretty cool - I could be coerced into a road trip

The coarse shown in the pics has 6 tons of rocks on it. In the spring we are going to build an out door coarse with 30 tons of rock. The out door coarse will consist of sandstone and granite. The river rock is nice but everyone likes the sandstone better.

The indoor coarse looks small but it takes 6 hours to run five guys through it twice.


We also plan on building a rock racing coarse out side when the ground thaws.

We should have a get together sometime. Let me know if there is any interest.


Schane F

 

[chris4207]

Should be here sometime this week, Thanks Timmahh for finding this for me.

Oh i just remembered Matt, When i was running the edge chassis I had to move the top of the shocks inside the chassis and add some spacers. When it would articulate the shock caps would hit the chassis and pop them off.

 

[chris4207]

The coarse shown in the pics has 6 tons of rocks on it. In the spring we are going to build an out door coarse with 30 tons of rock. The out door coarse will consist of sandstone and granite. The river rock is nice but everyone likes the sandstone better.

The indoor coarse looks small but it takes 6 hours to run five guys through it twice.


We also plan on building a rock racing coarse out side when the ground thaws.

We should have a get together sometime. Let me know if there is any interest.


Schane F

Im interested, What are your classes? I have 1.9 and 2.2 scalers.

 

[dasmonkeyboy]

Im interested, What are your classes? I have 1.9 and 2.2 scalers.

We only run 2.2 right now. We have to shuffle some counters and stuff around in the building so we can build the 1.9 course. We will have the 1.9 coarse up and running in about a month.

 

[Timmahh]

the 1.9 should do just about as well as the 2.2. the differance is so minimal, the 1.9s only have a slightly tougher time than the 2.2, UNLESS you make a Losi MRC specific course. then it would need to be Smaller, even though the MRC is classed as 1.9 (due to tire size, not chassis size and wheel base)

 

[binaryterror]

the MRC is classed as 1.9 (due to tire size, not chassis size and wheel base)

The MRC also has a 8.5" wheelbase which is the legal limit.

 

[dasmonkeyboy]

We will be building a dedicated coarse for the Losi MRC size crawler. It will be only slightly smaller. The biggest difference will be the size of the rock we use. We have tested the MRC on the 2.2 coarse, and what happens is the smaller 1.9 tires fall into the cracks between the rocks. So the new 1.9 coarse will have smaller rocks, covering the terrain that will be very similar to the 2.2 indoor coarse, as far as 50deg inclines, gullies, side hilling and so on. I HIGHLY doubt that a (STOCK MRC) will be able to complete the coarse that we will be building. You will have to run a pimped out MRC to compete successfully on the coarse.

 

[chris4207]

Would i run my 2.2 scaler in the 2.2 crawler class?

 

[dasmonkeyboy]

Would i run my 2.2 scaler in the 2.2 crawler class?

Yes because the USRCCA rules for the 1.9 class mandate 8.5in wheel base and your 2.2 scaler has a 12.5in wheel base.

 

[Timmahh]

i think you Mis understood Chris' question

hes not asking about running his 2.2 Scaler in the 1.9 class, thats just sillyness. lol and Chris is Silly, but not THAT silly.

he is asking IF 2.2 Scale Rigs will be Grouped with 2.2 Comp rigs.

Scalers have different rules than compers.

Is your club Nationally Reconized? i thought there was only one group MIRCA reconized here in MI.

if not, who givesa**** what the slopers rules are.

 

[dasmonkeyboy]

i think you Mis understood Chris' question

hes not asking about running his 2.2 Scaler in the 1.9 class, thats just sillyness. lol and Chris is Silly, but not THAT silly.

he is asking IF 2.2 Scale Rigs will be Grouped with 2.2 Comp rigs.

Scalers have different rules than compers.

Is your club Nationally Reconized? i thought there was only one group MIRCA reconized here in MI.

if not, who givesa**** what the slopers rules are.

Sorry I misunderstood. We only have two guys that run 2.2 scale trucks right now. So they usually run with the comp rigs. As a club we stick very close to the USRCCA rules. It keeps the headaches down to a minimum. If there are two or three scale 2.2 trucks that want to do a comp along the scale line, that would be no problem. As for having a specific coarse built for that purpose. we have no plans on doing anything like that. If there is enough interest, in the future that could change.

 

[chris4207]

LOL, Thanks Tim for clerifing that. I could have worded it different.

Also scalers don't have set wheelbase, the wheelbase depends the what body you run. Scalers don't really need a seperate course. I've upset a few comp rigs with my 2.2 scaler.

 

[slimdaddy]

where the crouse located at. i would run the scaler class"thumbsup"

 

[clayton78]

Scalers don't really need a seperate course. I've upset a few comp rigs with 2.2 scaler.[/quote] How true is that! :ror: Now you sure did word that right!

 

[whalebone]

Well after looking at my truck today. To make sure nothing got broke from the kick. I see that the link's are hitting the frame. So i put in some spacers and now i think it flex's to much.

 

[arcticjeff]

Im a loser

My axial is still in the mail. I hope it arrives today but not lookin good. I talked to the post office and the seller. It went out on the 5th and the post office says they are backed up because of some weather out west. Man the wait is killing me. I have tons of ideas and things I want to do. Not lookin good to hookin up with you guys this weekend. the postal people said it probably won't arrive until friday."thumbsup"

 

[WingNut33177]

My axial is still in the mail. I hope it arrives today but not lookin good. I talked to the post office and the seller. It went out on the 5th and the post office says they are backed up because of some weather out west. Man the wait is killing me. I have tons of ideas and things I want to do. Not lookin good to hookin up with you guys this weekend. the postal people said it probably won't arrive until friday."thumbsup"

I feel your pain here, I am trying to be paitent on waiting for mine since its only coming from NJ I thought it would be here by now, but nodda.
It was mailed out the 6th and nothing yet. What realy sucks about the whole thing is it is coming sig required which would not be a problem normaly but I have to work 12's the next 2 days now (7am to 7pm) I hope that I can get it sat. if it shows by then.

 

[scootertrash]

*Water-damage* Had to rip up alot to save it from it.

Welp' this was not a great afternoon Either,...And I knew Damm' well this was all coming to brotha's. Yup', with all that rain we got today. $hit' now i will have to go with *Plan "B" now*. It's was'nt all that bad,.... For I knew to get my ass down there today as soon as I got back home here from all the running I had to do today too. For i got to much time and money invested into this project to just be Lazy and let it all go down the drain...huh. So' I'll, have to do some extra' work and moving alot of stuff out of the way to fix that damm' crack in that back wall some what,... And I was about to swing a sledge hammer at it all too, as I was that piss'd off and feeling hurt about all them long cold a$$ winter nite's that I've spent down there for hour's on end frezzing my ol' a$$ off all alone,...Trying to figure it all out as I'd go along with it...And it's been one hell of a learning curve for me that for sure,... But, I'm going to have this project completed soon,...No-matter what it take's, and I'll just have to plan around this lil' mess up' that would'nt be to hard to fix either. (( And I knew damm' well to keep all the supply's up on two good pallet's, on top of milk crate's too,___And now I got to move my work bench and all my extra hobby stuff over to the other corner and start all over again,___Welp' I'm,taking a long hot shower eat my Cold by now Dinner, take my Med's & going to bed. For I tire and sore from having to move everything all around and tear some of it down & Etc,__Plus the shitty feeling that come's with a bad day like this one too ))__ It a be okey brotha's,__Oooh' Watch me bounce back from this lil' set back fella's for I know the good Lord is'nt going to let me lose out on this project,__ for he know's how much it's meant to me to try to do this, and for not giving up on the one thing I wanted most to have and willing to put my all into seeing it thru' too. *It's been a long day and I'm hitting the Hay'*__G-Nite & TTYL__Scoot'.

 

[clayton78]

Thats cool ! Atleast ya guys got some rigs on the way. Theres plenty of crawlin left this winter to do. Those warm days were just a teaser for us.

 

[Timmahh]

ya today sucked. thought my furnace my of been funky. well this am no pilot light and it wouldnt stay lit.

put a new Thermocoupler in, still wouldnt stay lit. ok time to call the Furnace man. 3 hrs and 385.00 later i have what appears to be a properly working furnace again. the secondary burner wasnt kicking in, and the primary burner was only burning at 20% of it supposed volume. i wonder why i could never get it above 65* thru the whole winter. so it took a new controller unit. OUCH.

on the plus side, i may of found out why i ve been feeling pretty crappy all damn winter. well see what happens in the next few days to a week.