shade82000

Let me know when you are all meeting up next time and I will see if I can get down there. It'll be great to meet you all.

Hey everyone ... I haven't been on this forum for ages and I haven't been out with my cars for over 2 years now :-( I just moved from Dunstable to Langley and now I want to get going again, but I don't know the area very well. Just looking for some places to go, mainly large scale off road but I do have a couple of tarmac cars too so anything really. I just read a post about a BMX track in Hayes. We used to have a track like that in Dunstable but they dug it up and built flats :-( The one in Hayes looks awesome though. So are there any regular meets around here? Where does everyone go? There must be a regular weekend meet. I'm not looking for pro or racing, just places to bash my 5BSS and FG Baja. Thanks.

You do have a point. It shouldn't be a problem if the buyer pays. It must be laziness then?

Can you change my location please? I'm now in Dunstable, Bedfordshire... Shade82000, South East #17

I noticed this before when I was searching the web for FG part numbers. A lot of the time I was taken to eBay.de or another company in Germany where there were a lot more parts available and they were cheaper. I figured it must be because FG Modellsport are German. FG are a major player in largescale so presumably there will be a higher percentage of Germans interested in RC simply because FG are German, a bit like cricket is over here. Look on German & UK eBay for 'cricket.' There are 80 times as many results on eBay UK. It could just be cheaper to post heavy items in Germany. There are also rules about sending fuel through the post in the UK. Maybe you can't send a largescale in a package because of the petrol that has been in it. Maybe the German postal carrier doesn't go bowling with your packages like Royal Mail do so people arent bothered about posting stuff over there. Or it could just be that we are too lazy. Who knows?

Been using these springs for a while, mainly cos I had a heavy pipe hanging off the back. Not had a problem, they are a very good upgrade for the price. It's been a while and I cant remember exactly what oil I used but I know it was a lot heavier in the rear and a bit heavier in the front. Unless they have changed recently, you have to re-use the stock small upper rear spring because Ramtech only give you the larger spring, so you will probably not achieve a full 20% on the rear but more like 12-15%. Also, I found the car handled a lot better with the screw tightened all the way in on each shock body. ...and they are not actually red in colour as Ramtech claim. They are more like a brass colour.

The 813 is a great carb but you need to know how it works before you tune it. As has already been said there is an accelerator jet that allows more fuel in when you go on the throttle quickly. If you ease the throttle open then is behaves like a stock carb. If you bear this in mind when tuning it you shoultn't have problems. If you tune it by ripping the throttle open then you run the risk of tuning it so it runs too lean at high RPM. What you want to do is go on and off the throttle slowly, then make you adjustments to the carb. That way you make sure the engine won't run lean and when you have finished tuning, you can rip open the throttle and the extra jet will allow more fuel in like it was designed to. This is what I have done to mine and both engines pick up much better than with stock carbs. Doing it this way means the engine will only ever run a rich mix when you are hard on the throttle, then a normal mix as the RPMs increase. Tuning it by being hard on the throttle can mean it will run a normal mix when you are hard on the throttle and then lean out too much as the RPMs increase. I believe this is why a lot of people say this carb either has "tuning problems" or is "no better than stock," because they are not properly tuned.

Venom silver and any 95 RON petrol. ^^^^ His car is way quicker than mine tho ^^^ It's not the different fuel tho, it can't be can it?

If it's flooding then you could try not choking when you restart the engine. I found with my stock carbs that I coul restart the engine when it had been sitting for up to 1/2 hour and really I only needed the choke when it had not been used for days.

"I can't come back to work I got run over by an RC." Looks a bit wet there, still good fun tho. nice videos tho, but my neck hurts after looking at them. Need a video with digital zoom that can take pictures the right way up? There's an app for that. Frenches Avenue, up the north end of the town. Come along and join us, it's an awesome place when its dry.

Theory: They increase the volume between your carb and combustion chamber and store more air / fuel mixture ready for when you go on the throttle, so the engine will rev better and won't temporarily starve or run lean when you open the throttle. Reality: They don't work but they do look nice.

I'm down to one car now and the front shocks are suspect now after someone put that speed hump in the car park... Got to get the HPI shocks fixed and make sure the Hypers are running well as backups. Also need FG front diff / steering rod / brake discs after that incident the other week...Who put that burger van there? But would you be able to hear the tape noise over the sound of (hopefully many) 2 stroke engines?

That does seem like good advice, if you have been actively testing them. Thanks for the info. I'll probably stick with my original plan and save up the 90,000 more pennies I need for an MCD... They sell these? Never seen these on MMR rofl

If I was going to treat the bearings with WD then I would probably need to take them out, or at least take the wheels off? If that was the case then I might aswell take them out before I clean the car so they wouldn't get wet in the first place. I have to be honest though, most of the with time my "dry the mud and brush it off" method I only manage to complete the first half and dont really get around to brushing the dirt off.

Water might shorten the life of your bearings...I normally just leave mine a couple of days to dry and then brush the dirt off, then polish it.