ROWDY RACING
I wanna be Dave
Rowdy, I need to send you a PM about your Wraith link mounts. "thumbsup"
It's going to cost you Hammer.
Rowdy, I need to send you a PM about your Wraith link mounts. "thumbsup"
It's going to cost you Hammer.
LOL! That could be arranged since he no longer has a ride! :mrgreen:
I just happened to look at tower because the HW was sold out when I went to order one, glad I looked. I really like the Novak set up! I need to finish the paint and then get up to the track in the next couple of weeks to do some testing before I hit a race, and see how may are running VTA.
The scale aspect was one of the biggest motivators for me, they just look badarse."thumbsup"
Shooting for the Smokey Yanick paint scheme......:mrgreen:
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How's VTA racing going Tommy?
I decided to paint mine yesterday to finish it up. Scraped the Yanick paint for now, I'm going to farm that one out. Here's a link to my build......
http://www.rccrawler.com/forum/non-crawler-rcs/441075-r2js-tc4-vta.html
It's been a blast! The car is exceptionally competitive and was even undefeated 'til just recently. Some folks came down from the Dallas area and we couldn't touch their straightaway speeds for nothin'! In the infield I was doing fine, but some of us were getting pulled 10-15 feet down the straights, including me and I have one of the fastest VTAs locally. I don't know how they did it, but none of us could keep up. It was pretty darn frustrating considering we'll all be running a statewide series together soon and there's no way any of us will have the motor to keep up....in a spec class. :x
Your car looks awesome, Shon! You're going to love racing it. :mrgreen:
Damb! 10-15 feet, that's pretty crazy! Only thing that comes to mind is high burst lipos or timing boost. Your VTA rules pretty stringent there? Ours are a little looser at the indoor track and not sure about the Hobby Town series yet.
Thanks! I'll be hitting some races soon."thumbsup"
Yeah, even though my VTA has max timing (~45*) and a FDR of 3.3, I was getting motored on down the straight as if we were in different classes. And I have really good batteries, too (65c). Here in Austin, we abide by USVTA rules pretty closely. In Dallas, I think they allow open 25.5T motors, but I'm not sure. I know Novak can build custom 25.5 motors if you pay for it, but they're not USVTA legal. Not saying this is what those guys did, but the disparity in speed was too large to ignore. Everyone locally was wondering about it...
Our carpet track is small, and in the 50 foot straight the fast guys will get to the end while the rest of the pack is in the middle. When the rest of the pack is turning middle 9 second laps, the fast 3 are all into the 7's. I call bullshit myself. I have found a company that makes a 25.5t motor with either a 18.5 or 21.5 wind. They call it "the cheater" edition. Not exactly a Novak VTA motor, but they are loose with the rules at our track. As a last Hurrah at our track I think i might order one just to mess with them.
i always wondered about that. so easy to do. so hard to check.