ReggieC Posted December 14, 2022 Author Share Posted December 14, 2022 34 minutes ago, Stormbringer said: well done mate Thanks buddy! Definitely feel like I'm a fair bit better round a track now than I used to be. Probably got a bit more sense on how the cars actually work now. (Or I'm keeping out of the barriers more because it's my wallet that takes the hit after a crash 😂) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormbringer Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 (edited) yeh theres only so many times you can hit the wallet Edited December 14, 2022 by Stormbringer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReggieC Posted January 1, 2023 Author Share Posted January 1, 2023 Had an hour or so up the grass track today. I'm sure everyone else has had the near non-stop rain for weeks too, so it was not too unexpected that there was a lot of standing water. Made a bit of a modification to the track to avoid the worst of it. Was nice to get them out. Although not sure how much I learnt with the track being so bad and now missing about 1/4 of the infield but I had fun! Plenty to clean up now though Off to the indoor track on Tuesday night for a test and tune night before going into a 12 week championship so got a bit of prepping to do with the T1 and maybe see if I can take something else along I've not updated on in a while 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReggieC Posted January 4, 2023 Author Share Posted January 4, 2023 So had a bit of a rebuild of the T1. Back to kit set up, new bearings, 400cst oil all round and rebuilt the ball diffs which were really dry. Into the test and tune last night. I decided to take the Tyrrell P34 for a run too! Classes were split into 2 15 minute timed sessions but had a little bit more on either side of that so a decent amount of run time. Trying out some Contact A30s on the T1 as they're the control tyre for the Retro TC meets and want to be familiar with them before getting to one. They felt a bit slippy to start with but think that was just them getting scrubbed in. After a few minutes I felt pretty consistent apart from a fair amount of lift-off oversteer that caught me out a few times, really worked at rotating the car in at times but worked a bit too well at others! One of the big selling points of the T1 back in the day was that it had adjustable shock pistons that you could switch from 1-4 holes whilst the shock was still assembled to make quick damping adjustments on the fly. So just to see if it helped, I pulled off and quickly set the rear to full soft. A little better but still not cured. I clocked between runs that I'd set the wheelbase adjustment the wrong way round when I rebuilt the car, so it was shorter than last time out. I changed that round and went out again. Again, an improvement but still not fixed. My next plan was to play with the rear droop screws to stop a bit of weight transfer to the front. Unfortunately I didn't get round to this as during one of the spin outs, I got clattered and this happened! Servo case snapped which put it out for the rest of the night. Annoying, but it was a cheap servo and I should be able to put a new upper case on it. I've got another servo on the way just to be safe too. The P34 was an absolute riot to use. I really wasn't expecting much out of it at all but it went round the little track really well. The silvercan motor was about perfect speed wise and I wouldn't really want to go any faster with it. Was really smooth round the track and probably as quick as most of the other cars there! My concerns of damaging it were unfortunately founded when I had a grip roll that resulted in a freak injury to the driver! Decapitation, rollover bar and a wing end plate all fell off! Luckily it looks like the glue joint split in all cases and a bit of super glue got them back together. Once again a really fun night. Car was 'scrutineered' for the next series and I'm very safe on my FDR so I've got a couple of smaller spurs on the way that should set it perfect. I'm sticking with my Core RC fixed timing motor for now, but think I'll probably end up getting something a little quicker as even though my FDR wasn't bang on the limit, I was significantly slower than some of the guys out there. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormbringer Posted January 4, 2023 Share Posted January 4, 2023 Looks like you had a good night but your driver didnt lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReggieC Posted January 4, 2023 Author Share Posted January 4, 2023 20 minutes ago, Stormbringer said: Looks like you had a good night but your driver didnt lol Yeah, he said he had a bit of a headache today! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReggieC Posted January 9, 2023 Author Share Posted January 9, 2023 Not a lot to report from Sunday's racing which got called off after the qualifying heats because of rain. P4 in A final for the XB2 and P3 (out of 3 total) for the Slash. Slash is getting a bit frustrating to run as it's so mismatched to the other cars in the class. Coupled with outer hinge pins that loosen themselves within a 5 minute run and a intermittent issue that turned out to be a failed solder joint on the battery connection, I'm finding myself being tempted by a 1/8 truggy. This would result in the Slash being pretty unused though as I don't really do any bashing. At least I remembered to bring a kettle this week. Both vehicles now sat in the airing cupboard to dry off properly so I don't get any more rust bearings before getting round to clean them. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReggieC Posted January 11, 2023 Author Share Posted January 11, 2023 Bit of a rubbish night last night. Spent some time in the week trying to sort out corner weights, discovered I had a lot more rearward weight bias so put some wheel weights around to try even things out, hoping this would sort out the very loose rear end. Unfortunately not. Car was still very lively on the back, both on and off power. First heat was manageable, but on the slower side. So I borrowed some very incognito softer springs for the rear shocks. Was hoping for a bit of improvement, but seemed to struggle even more which was bizarre. When I pulled off, it was obvious that my front diff wasn't in a very good way. I done a quick rebuild but I later discovered the diff plates are just slipping on the outdrives, so eventually the diff would just fully slip giving me a rear wheel drive car on throttle. Because of the lack of rear grip, I spent more of the night backwards than forwards. This resulted in the car taking a few hits and my 3d printed battery holder breaking! The shell has also taken a few knocks and has had a crack in a place I've never seen a TC shell go before. It felt a bit thin when I was painting it, but it's still new to me. Although to be honest, I'm not too fussed about it getting battered as I hate the paint 😂 I've got a front anti-roll bar on the way to play with to see if that improves thing and think I'll try to make a spool out of one of the spare diffs as pretty much every modern car for years has ran a front spool. Both should hopefully make an impact on the rear end. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReggieC Posted January 25, 2023 Author Share Posted January 25, 2023 Indoor again last night. Locked diff felt good on the front and definitely tamed the rear down. It's still not great though. I've put some harder springs on the front that have also helped but it's still there. It really looks like there's just too much weight transfer around the front. Annoyingly the front anti-roll bar I bought still hasn't turned up. Private seller on eBay who reckons they have another they're sending this week. I'll believe it when it turns out. Did manage a P3 in the final though! More through attrition than performance but got to be in it to win it! Buggies this weekend, midweek indoor and then off to a new club next weekend to do indoor again on a bit of a bigger track! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormbringer Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 At least your making progress with the car 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReggieC Posted January 26, 2023 Author Share Posted January 26, 2023 Got fed up with cleaning half the track out of all the nooks and crannies of the chassis of the Slash every time it ran. Had a little look/measure of some of the 1/8 buggies at the track the other weekend to see if I could rig up something of an underbody. A bit of search on eBay for a cheap 1/8 bodyshells led to finding one for a BSD (Are they still about?) Which is the perfect width. A bit of an awful colour, but it'll do for an experiment! A bit of trimming and we're here. Suck on with a bit of dual-lock on each side, but I might try get a proper bodypost on there somewhere. Also picked up some Lunsford titanium hinge pins. They're held in with E-clips which wasn't my preferred option, but hopefully better than the stock ones. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReggieC Posted January 28, 2023 Author Share Posted January 28, 2023 Picked up a 3D printer finally the other week so have been addressing something on the XB2 that I've never liked too much. The spur 'cover' doesn't offer much in the way of cover for the spur and with it hanging out of the shell, I've always wanted a bit more. A bit of trial and error refining the fitment... And I'm currently here. And looks like this with the shell on Will give it a test tomorrow to see how it goes! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormbringer Posted January 28, 2023 Share Posted January 28, 2023 nice 1 mate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReggieC Posted January 29, 2023 Author Share Posted January 29, 2023 Quick summary of today's action, sponsored by Batchelor's Cup-A-Soup 3D printed guard lasted, not sure how much more it protected it but I'd like to go a bit further with it. Underbody worked well, again, might do with some extra help, As it's letting some dirt still through. Ended up P3 in both classes. Qualified P2 in 2wd but had a return of the interference issues from a few months ago that meant I would never hold P2. Slash actually went really well today, still slowest but keeping up with others with them crashing a bit too. Whilst trying to run down batteries at the end, I somehow managed to strip a spur jumping, so that'll need to be fixed! Now the clean up 'fun'... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReggieC Posted February 12, 2023 Author Share Posted February 12, 2023 No real updates for a few weeks. Been racing a couple of times with mixed results. No real photos to show for it. Thinking about a new TC to run alongside the T1. Just something that'll keep up a bit better. Watch this space. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ReggieC Posted February 19, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 19, 2023 So, had a new car time this week! It's a RaceOpt R3-G, championed by Popalong RC and supplied by Team Powers. £120 for the chassis, £15 for a roll bar kit and then most spares really affordable. I spent the evenings this week getting the electrics from the Xray in and a base set up on in prep for racing today. Turned up today feeling hopeful and discovered the same layout as last time out so I'd be able to get a direct comparison to running the Xray. First few practice laps showed the car was instantly faster, more stable and easier to drive (As you'd hope from 20 years of car evolution). Plan was to spend the day getting to grips with it before doing any further set up changes, I've got no idea what the kit oils and springs are so wasn't much point experimenting yet. Heat 1 saw me put 3 laps on my previous best with the Xray, and was slowly getting a little faster during the day. Rear end was a tiny bit looser than I'd want long-term but so much better than the T1 and I could manage it by being a bit smoother on turn in. Heat 2 and 3 went about the same, was struggling to get a clean run through traffic. Ended up qualifying in P1 of the C Final (running up to an E final in 17.5t today). And very uncharacteristically for me, I managed to bring it home! Lights to flag in P1! Snuck another lap in to make it 4 laps quicker than the T1 with significantly less run time. I was still very slow on the straights compared to everyone else, but made up a lot of time around the corners over everyone else in the final and was a bit more consistent! I've had some recommendations on oils that I've got on the way to try out for next time, and I'm keeping an eye out for a cheap second hand 17.5t that is a bit faster, as I think I'll struggle to get too much more out of it without more power! Super day out! No mid week indoor this coming week as I'm at the Norwich game instead, but back out with the XB2 and Slash next Sunday! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormbringer Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 well done mate 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shergar Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 That looks a cracker for very little money! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReggieC Posted February 20, 2023 Author Share Posted February 20, 2023 14 hours ago, Shergar said: That looks a cracker for very little money! Yeah I'm really happy with it! I'll try get a few more photos of it this week. Also just clocked there's a TC shell that I've painted and not destroyed but not put a photo in so I'll get that in too! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PraetoR Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 I did a double-take, when I saw that price!! 😲 What an absolute bargain! I cannot believe you can get a TC like that, for that money! At a glance, I thought you'd bought an expensive Yokomo, Schumacher, or modern XRay. I'm definitely going to have to do some research on this one. Good work, with your racing! I bet you're really pleased. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReggieC Posted February 22, 2023 Author Share Posted February 22, 2023 22 hours ago, PraetoR said: I did a double-take, when I saw that price!! 😲 What an absolute bargain! I cannot believe you can get a TC like that, for that money! At a glance, I thought you'd bought an expensive Yokomo, Schumacher, or modern XRay. I'm definitely going to have to do some research on this one. Good work, with your racing! I bet you're really pleased. I was a bit dubious when I first found it but everything I could fund about it was green flags. I called up Team Powers who I think are the main (possibly sole) UK importer and they were superb answering all my questions on it. I think there's an amount of design borrowed from xray in there, I think RaceOpt started off doing mid-motor conversion kits for xrays. But I don't think that's a bad thing. There's plenty of options to upgrade this to their higher spec models too with carbon chassis kits, lcg shock tower kits, carbon wishbone all available. I'm really excited to get more familiar with it. There's a pretty active Facebook support group with the guys from team powers and some team drivers from Asia that seem to be helping everyone out. I've managed to find out what all the kit oils are from there and will be making a few adjustments as I go! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormbringer Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 New car looks a lovely bit of kit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ReggieC Posted March 2, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 2, 2023 First Tuesday night session with the R3-G this week. Having ran on some ETS black carpet a couple of times now, I realise how low grip the Tuesday night carpet really is! Doesn't help that it's kept in a trailer on someone's driveway when it's not being used, so when it's freezing outside, the carpet is cold too! I think there's not too much weight in chasing set ups here because of this so I turned up as it left it's last run. A couple of electrical changes though. I got a full length higher capacity Sunpadow Lipo, getting the weight balanced whilst using my low profile shorties was very difficult and the 6000mah should be able to do a full night without a charge if I've got my calcs right. I also finally picked up a motor with adjustable timing! One of my racing mates sold me a Motiv MC3 for £25, which I think is a great deal. Set it at about 35 degrees to start off with, but lots of room to play with, especially with a minimum FDR of 5.8 allowed. Ran around in 3rd/8 all night, 42 laps with 6.2s fastest lap . Fastest lad managed a 45 with a 5.9 and then next was 44 with a 6.0. Happy with how that went. I've bought some Schumacher Carpet Dragons to try out for next time as the guys that use them look like they actually have grip! XB2 and Slash went about as well as normal on Sunday, tracks were both a lot drier than previous outings which was bizarre change. Annoyingly, theres a clash in a couple of weeks between the outdoor and TC racing. Tbh, I think the TC racing might win out though, which feels odd to say as the original plan was to have the TC on the side for when outdoor wasn't running. I think the excitement of the new car and also that the outdoor winter championship only has 2 meetings left and with only 5 rounds since September counting, I won't catch up with P3 in the championship unless I win every heat and race for the next 2 meetings (not happening) and P5 can't mathematically catch up at all. But 2 weeks after that I've got a double header weekend, indoor Saturday and outdoor Sunday! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormbringer Posted March 2, 2023 Share Posted March 2, 2023 getting better mate and your improving the car as well nice 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PraetoR Posted March 4, 2023 Share Posted March 4, 2023 So much racing! And I'm still envious of you going TC racing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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