I guess I misread it, I thought he was having trouble locating the correct gears. I assumed 132slotcars was out because he said he had been searching online and found none. Many vendors are indeed out of stock, but 132slotcar and ED do show to have them.
427 August 6, 2017 3:51 pm
Re: BRM Tuning (62 replies, posted in Cars)
Not my first choice of vendor but Electric Dreams shows to have 36t BRM gears in stock.
428 July 28, 2017 7:48 am
Re: NASTE Odd Thursday Night Racing Rules & Current Thread (2,115 replies, posted in NASTE)
Thanks for hosting Al, I had a most enjoyable evening.
429 July 19, 2017 8:29 pm
Re: Discussion of Classic Sports Cars ECT. (28 replies, posted in Cars)
Can we control individual lane voltage? Not on any of the tracks I know of that we race on, so I fail to see how that levels the playing field. If you just lower the voltage some motors will be more affected than others. The fact remains the simplest way is to put a RPM and tire size limit in place and go racing.
430 July 19, 2017 9:08 am
Re: Discussion of Classic Sports Cars ECT. (28 replies, posted in Cars)
Most of the motors are rated at 12V and that is where they are designed to run. We are already running them below spec at 10V and if we go lower they are going to be real dogs especially on larger tracks. We won't need computer scoring, just a sun dial.
431 July 18, 2017 8:49 pm
Re: Discussion of Classic Sports Cars ECT. (28 replies, posted in Cars)
Who is going to police this? All of this complication to avoid switching motors, it would be easier to swap motors.
432 July 15, 2017 10:45 am
Re: Odd Thursday at Al's (8 replies, posted in Cars)
I will all of the above sentiments.
433 July 3, 2017 8:14 pm
Re: NASTE Odd Thursday Night Racing Rules & Current Thread (2,115 replies, posted in NASTE)
I just don't think a $90.00 starting/entry point is conducive to getting and keeping new people involved. Greg's and Monte's are both coupes so you are comparing apples and oranges and all the print I've seen is that they all very quick so Greg's is not an anomaly. The Classic Sports Car class rules need some restructuring and limiting all entries to 1964 and prior would be a good start. After that the tire and horsepower wars began transforming production based sports cars into purpose built racing machines altering racing for ever. It's time we make some adjustments to our classes to reflect this. I submit that we drop 18k motors from classic sports cars and limit them to 14k and 7mm tires. We could continue with the pod and non-pod divisions to help keep things compatible with the cars in use. I further submit that we should split the GT class into Modern and shall we say Vintage divisions. The Vintage division could cover the years 1965-1990 or ? The vintage division could serve as the place where we could run the ThunderSlot's, NSR's, Al's Greenwood Vette and the like with some sort of motor limit. (18-20k?) and the Modern division still kind of a catch all for everything else. These changes would better reflect racing history and mirror the increasing speeds achieved as time marched on, better aligning our classes to reality without banning certain brands or individuals creations.
434 July 3, 2017 12:02 pm
Re: NASTE Odd Thursday Night Racing Rules & Current Thread (2,115 replies, posted in NASTE)
ckouba wrote:
(Complicit in this is also to not ban Thunderslot for any of the classes in which they'd be eligible as well)
Chris
I do NOT agree. So, if someone wants to win a Classic Sports car or CanAm race they would need to have a Thunderslot in order to have a shot? They are going to dominate from what I've seen and it would make it a one car class which equals: BORING.
435 June 27, 2017 9:27 am
Re: Bill's Junk (220 replies, posted in Slot Talk)
wb0s wrote:
Bad news is there probably won't be any Odd Thursday Night racers at my place. The flip side of course is that I should be able to win a few!
There won't be any or is that many racers? If it's any, you wouldn't even need a track and you could still win.
A legend in his own mind ;-)
436 June 27, 2017 9:21 am
Re: Discussion of Classic Sports Cars ECT. (28 replies, posted in Cars)
spankythemonk wrote:
Handicaps. If you give the slower racers/cars 20 laps, knowing that you have to push to beat that, we have a race yo! I can never beat Ricco or Mitch, but if you give me 20 laps, the tides just turned. Now they got something to do...!
I DO know how you feel Jeff. In my opinion, there are very few persons that can take up a new skill/hobby and be really good at it in the beginning. When I started racing slot cars with the NASTE group I certainly wasn't at the pointy end and sometimes I'm still not. That being said, I am fairly good repairing/tinkering with many forms of mechanical devices which I have been able to transfer into building/maintaining/racing slot cars. As far as "driving" slot cars the only way to get better is to practice, practice, practice. In the beginning I never thought I could catch, let alone, win against the likes of Bill, Monte, Flyin' Bryan to name a few but I kept trying and occasionally I can beat them. So keep on trying- you'll get there.
I do agree that some of our classes need some restructuring, especially the F1 and Classic Sports car. In my opinion we should down motor the Sports cars to make them run slower than some of them currently do. I also think it would make things simpler if we limited them to actual production cars and eliminate cars that were race cars first and street cars second. Any car that falls in the latter category can run in our GT class.
Regards
Rico
437 June 26, 2017 9:15 pm
Re: Molotow Chrome Pens (8 replies, posted in Modifications)
I have one and they work remarkably well.
438 June 24, 2017 9:35 pm
Re: BRM Race - LOCAL (69 replies, posted in Events)
Yes, a big Thank you is in order to Howie for lending us his fine facility for the afternoon and thanks to Chris/Monte for organizing the event. Always fun to give the BRM's a run, sorry I had to leave a little early as I really wanted to see how 'Ol Yella would fair with the Falcon7 motor. Maybe next time.
Rico
439 June 20, 2017 8:20 am
Re: NASTE Odd Thursday Night Racing Rules & Current Thread (2,115 replies, posted in NASTE)
I really had no intention of creating a hornets nest with my previous comment, I apologize to all. However, I am opposed to letting Thunderslot and cars like it run in any class other than GT. These cars are purpose built racing machines and not simply toys like Fly, Scalextric and others and they do not compete at the same level. I know we have allowed de-motored, narrow tired cars to run in our Classic class but in my opinion it goes against the intent of the class even if it is within the rules. Classic Sports cars should not lap faster than modern GT's, Can-Am's, etc.
440 June 18, 2017 9:28 am
Re: NASTE Odd Thursday Night Racing Rules & Current Thread (2,115 replies, posted in NASTE)
Yes, yes he did. It was bloody quick and I think we should ban them like NSR's or everyone is going to have to buy one. I may or may not have one on order…
441 June 4, 2017 8:05 pm
Re: NASTE Gravity Racer Program (306 replies, posted in NASTE)
Now that Bill is devoting less time to slot cars, he just might
Only one cure that I know of...
442 June 4, 2017 12:02 pm
Re: proxy thoughts (7 replies, posted in NASTE)
Our Classic Sports Car class is very close to IPS specs but we would have to down motor them to NC-1 specs and a few people have cars that are too new but other wise they are fairly spot on. Once down motored they would be pretty much the same as the TLOR tiddler class. I've thought for quite a while we should down motor this class and have a year cut off. Just my opinion for what it's worth.
Rico
443 June 2, 2017 11:28 am
Re: NASTE Odd Thursday Night Racing Rules & Current Thread (2,115 replies, posted in NASTE)
kidvolt wrote:
He was there?
That's what happens when you get to the races late: Bill has come and gone.
444 June 2, 2017 8:48 am
Re: NASTE Odd Thursday Night Racing Rules & Current Thread (2,115 replies, posted in NASTE)
After completing the Carrera Scramble proxy last evening we did manage to race a couple of Odd Thursday classes. As always the racing was very close at Autumn Hills, sometimes too close. We decided to race GT-3 first with me leading the way in what I'm calling the silent destroyer (aka McLaren MP4-12C) with 49.3 laps. Monte was second in a borrowed mostly yellow car with 47.7 laps and Doc pulled out a third place with 45.6 laps.
We decided to race Classic Sportscars for round two. It was a mix of podded and non-podded cars but since no points were involved we really didn't keep track. Once again I led the way with 46.4 laps in my Fraser-Nash barely beating Al by .1 in his Greenwood 'Vette. Third was Stan in a borrowed Ferrari GTO with 44.0 laps just edging Doc and Chris who both had 43.9.
GT-3 Results:
1 Rico 49.3
2 Monte 47.7
3 Doc 45.6
4 Chris 44.4
5 Mitch 44.3
6 Al 42.4
7 Stan 41.4
Classic Sportscar Results:
1 Rico 46.4
2 Al 46.3
3 Stan 44.0
4 Chris 43.9
Doc 43.9
6 Mitch 42.4
7 Dom 32.5
I would also like to thank everyone who came out to help with the proxy, your contributions are invaluable.
Rico
445 May 31, 2017 11:54 am
Re: BRM Race - LOCAL (69 replies, posted in Events)
Mitch58 wrote:
But then, I've always been easy.
Which I might add, ends in a "Y"
446 May 30, 2017 11:01 am
Re: BRM Race - LOCAL (69 replies, posted in Events)
wb0s wrote:
If I did I apologize..........I was probably drunk!
Probably had been visiting the Stage Coach 
447 May 20, 2017 10:50 am
Re: Feel the Burn... (3 replies, posted in Cars)
Nice work Monte, I bet it was pretty hard to put those decals on a white body. JUST kidding. Is it fast?
448 May 12, 2017 8:18 am
Re: NASTE Odd Thursday Night Racing Rules & Current Thread (2,115 replies, posted in NASTE)
Thanks Al for a night of good close racing. The results were very close with some great on track battles. I took a couple of short videos of the GT-3 race. They can be viewed here:
449 May 8, 2017 6:08 pm
Re: May 1st Sunday (4 replies, posted in Penguin Point Raceway)
docdoom wrote:
on these pen days
Jeez, you make it sound like a prison sentence. My dad is from Walla Walla and you didn't go anywhere near the pen, as in State Penitentiary.
450 May 7, 2017 6:22 pm
Topic: May 1st Sunday (4 replies, posted in Penguin Point Raceway)
Thanks Monte and Victoria for a fun afternoon of racing. I went on a quest when I got home to find my missing TicTac Porsche and lo and behold I found it. I have a table next to my work bench that I sometimes put cars on and apparently it had fallen off and behind the table, through my bubble wrap for shipping, past two boxes of die-cast cars and made it's way clear to the floor where it was resting peacefully. I am glad that it is not missing and lost.
Rico