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Just got a message from Rick, the Houston track cannot support 1/24 models.
“122 ft per lane. The spacing is based on Scaley Classic track. We cannot support 1/24 on our track.”
Maybe we can work something out with the Slot.it Challenge.
tele52 wrote:Ary,
Let me know what gears you use on the EVO version, and I will gear the pink motor the same. I can use my Kenwood car as the test bed.I will run 9×34 – the same I’m already using.
tele52 wrote:I was looking at the Carrera braids at Kings. Is there a possibility they would work? They may be too short for the wood guide. I think I may have some Carrera braids. I’ll check it out this afternoon. I’m using the BRM braids for plastic tracks (Ninco?) I got from 132slotcar.us (Alan).
Scaleauto makes braid we could use with BRM, that’s also the suggestion from Alan; it just does not make any sense.
Jim,
I talked to Marty after we spoke and he believes that the Houston track has 3.5″ lane spacing – we can’t run BRM’s if that is true. I’m waiting for Rick Carlson to send me the track details (length and lane spacing).
We still need to figure out the rules for the series, the idea of using Scaleauto parts is ridiculous; you are trying to run a manufacturers challenge here. I would even remove the use of the wood guide if we can’t get the proper braids.
There has been talk that it is difficult to get motors, I don’t think that is the case. Professor Motor has 28 of the racing motors in stock, if we choose to run the EVO we can get them from Pendle. One thing I would suggest is that everyone uses the same motors.
— Last year nationals had hand out black motors (EVO) and sponge tires.
I will install the EVO motor on mine for this Thursday, if you race the racing motor (pink?) install it as well so we can compare results — one 10 min heat should give you some info on how hot those get.
turboman93 wrote:I’m in. 2 man team using the same car. Would you set minimum lap times to make it more about consistency?
Shawn, please explain.
Did some motor tunning Yesterday while waiting for the F1 Malaysian practice session.
I opened up the motors with the intention of sending them off to be balanced; as it turns out these motors were already balanced from factory.
Although I don’t really think that epoxy balancing is the way to go, I decided it was pretty good already and saved some bucks.With the motors opened, I checked the commutators and, as expected, they could use some truing:
They were not extremely bad but I had to remove about .07mm from one of them.
Looking good now:
I was probably doing something else when you guys were talking about changing the F1 series. What is the problem with the stock F1 cars?
Guys,
The BRM series rules have been posted: BRM Challenge Rules.
Please review as I chopped a lot of mambo jumbo.
Brian,
Thank you for all the race updates, really great work and very much appreciated.
Congratulations for everybody participating, this was fun!
Good, we have five signed for this already. Me, Brian, Marty, Jim and Russell.
Since nobody chose a specific day I will go and schedule the first available Sunday – June 18th, starting at 1pm.One more spot available.
I would also like to race the proxy on one Sunday with six people. I will be a lot more inclined to race on two Sundays if we only have 3 people.
Autorama wrote:Each truck needs to race for a minimum of four minutes per lane, bringing the total track racing time to four hours; after adding time to change lanes and test the trucks, this proxy race should last 5:30~6:30 hours.
Sorry guys, little correction needed. I forgot that we would be racing 3 trucks at a time. This will bring the racing time to around 2:30~3:00 hours for both classes with lane changes and testing.
It will take 5:30~6:30 hours if we don’t have enough drivers/marshals (one person driving one car at a time with other 2 marshaling).
