Hey Rico, I have considered the "bracket" style racing before. I really like that idea, but I was also thinking of how we could race the same cars on many different tracks. I suppose we could establish a break out time for each track? I think it would be nice if we could have a single class where a racer would have to have just one car. That's not to say we wouldn't have other classes in addition to the "generic" one. I was thinking instead of just running one class at each race, and going through a complete rotation twice, maybe we could run two classes with one rotation each? ---------------Bill
5,527 December 10, 2008 12:30 pm
Re: The BullRing @ TooBad Motorplex for 1/32 (3 replies, posted in Track)
Thanks George. I think the key to running the 1/32 cars on my 6 lane track is just finding the right tires. -----------Bill
5,528 December 9, 2008 8:49 pm
Topic: NASTE for 2010 (51 replies, posted in NASTE)
Let's open up some discussion for the NASTE 2010 Season. Yes, I'm already thinking about next year. NASTE has run the IROC series for a few years now, and it's been great! But personally, I'm ready for a change. There have been some proposed classes already as you've all probably read. Vintage 1/24 cars is one class that has been discussed. I like that idea, but I'm not sure everyone is on board. But here's another thought. With the little bit of experimenting I've done, I'm quite sure we can come up with a non-magnetic 1/32 class of cars, that will work on the 1/24 tracks as well as the 1/32 tracks we currently race on. This would mean we could have one car for the entire season that we could race on 7 different tracks for sure, and possibly an additional 8. Invest and develope 1 car and race on 15 different tracks!? That sounds pretty cool to me! We would have almost a full year to develope ideas for the class, and get cars ready while we finish out our current IROC series. Most of us have a few types and makes of 1/32 cars now. Potential candidates I can think of are Carrera stock cars, and the Slot.It cars we have already raced. Racing them non-magnetic would probably widen the choices for competitive cars. I doubt if any one type of car would be dominant, at least within the specific brands. My first choice would probably be the Slot.It cars since most of us have at least one, they were an expensive investment, and there are a multitude of parts available. My preference would be to go with a spec motor, probably the lowest performance "box stock" motor. Spec tires, either rubber or urethane. Some other specifics might include minor body modifications, and allowing the replacement of the full interiors with cardstock or lexan interiors and driver figures. So, let's start the discussion! Let 'er rip!!! -------------------------Bill
5,529 December 9, 2008 6:33 pm
Topic: The BullRing @ TooBad Motorplex for 1/32 (3 replies, posted in Track)
Played around on my 6 lane routed track tonight with some 1/32 cars. Found that rubber tires and the urethane tires Glenn made work VERY well! My TCONY Slot.It car worked excellent, as did my NSR Mosler car. No modifications were made to either car for running on the big track. I also have a couple Slot.It Nissans that John modified for me that work very well. John modified the Nissans by adding some weight. Other than that I'm not sure what he did to them. They have silicon rear tires on them right now, but I'm thinking a switch to rubber or urethane would be an improvement over the silicons. -----------------Bill
5,530 December 8, 2008 2:28 pm
Re: NASTE Thursdays (41 replies, posted in NASTE)
My turn, how about "Knievel Hills" (similar sort of "flying" referrence)? Evel would be proud!!!!
5,531 December 7, 2008 4:25 pm
Re: Professor's Enduro Series Finale (3 replies, posted in Events)
THANK YOU JOHN & CHRISSY!!! It was a GREAT event!!!! -----------------------Bill
5,532 December 7, 2008 8:46 am
Re: NASTE Thursdays (41 replies, posted in NASTE)
Monte, You've been busy! Great gallery for the NASTE Thursday activities!!! --------------Bill
5,533 December 5, 2008 7:16 am
Re: NASTE Thursdays (41 replies, posted in NASTE)
A great NASTE Thursday at Monte's last night!!! We got a demonstration in slosh casting (thank you Greg Petrolati!), we applied some copper tape to Monte's Scalextric track, and we raced some digital on Monte's new SCX Digital track. By the way Monte, what's the name of the new track? And we had some great chili and cornbread! What a blast!!! Thank you Monte & Victoria!!!! ------------------------Bill
5,534 December 3, 2008 3:53 pm
Re: HELP!!! Need a Parma Economy controller handle in clear or smoke (2 replies, posted in Track)
Hey George, I've got a clear handle I can trade you. Are you going over to Monte's tomorrow night (Thursday)? -------Bill
5,535 November 24, 2008 8:29 pm
Re: NASTE Race No.4 - Marshall Field (3 replies, posted in NASTE)
"Fairness"............heck, fairness never helped me get this far!!!!
Rico, I should'a went to Seaside with you!
Actually it was a very fun race! Thanks Randy! .......But Randy, seriously, those Saleens don't handle anything like 1/24 cars!!!! -------------------------Bill
5,536 November 22, 2008 10:43 pm
Re: Potential Classes for NASTE Racing (63 replies, posted in Cars)
Great looking car Todd! I love those old Porsches!......And you're right, it's too bad Pelican Park is so far from us! -----------------------------Bill
5,537 November 21, 2008 9:38 am
Re: Potential Classes for NASTE Racing (63 replies, posted in Cars)
I would have to agree with you Rico. Depending on the condition of the car, especially the body, these are not what I would call particularly cheap. Of course my definition of cheap is under $20 (complete and ready to go!)! However there are many that can be had for no more than the cost of a new Slot.It car. If we do initiate this as a class, I would estimate the entry cost of a car (race ready) to be $40 to $70 depending on the initial cost of a used car/chassis and the parts required to get it race ready. Chances are any car you can buy for $20 to $30 is going to require some parts to upgrade it. I don not want to mislead anyone! ---------------------------Bill
5,538 November 17, 2008 5:39 pm
Re: HO Slot racing................... (15 replies, posted in Track)
Hey Rico, If you have the room I'd help you route a 1/32 track. I've got some ideas, I'm just out of room!!!! ----------------------Bill
5,539 November 17, 2008 5:38 pm
Re: HO Slot racing................... (15 replies, posted in Track)
Great pictures Bryan!!!
5,540 November 17, 2008 5:04 pm
Re: Potential Classes for NASTE Racing (63 replies, posted in Cars)
Here are some of the chassis that fit the "lightweight, 36D sidewinder" category:
Revell
Monogram
Classic
Garvic
Champion
5,541 November 17, 2008 4:59 pm
Re: 1/24 IROC for NASTE races (17 replies, posted in Cars)
AJ, I like your thoughts to get us started in the right direction. Running and experimenting with different vintage style cars is a good idea. We may find other types of chassis that are comparible with the ones we have in mind. I'm thinkin' we play around with different cars and try to figure something out for next season.
Building simple cars is another option I like. That type of chassis would better suite model car injection molded bodies.
We have plenty of time to experiment!!!!
-----------------Bill
5,542 November 17, 2008 3:00 pm
Re: 1/24 IROC for NASTE races (17 replies, posted in Cars)
We need more discussion and research on this proposed class. Larry and I have talking about it for sometime now, so we are probably a little ahead of everybody. Rico, I like the spec tire idea, although like larry said, getting the tall old style tires is a crap shoot. But, I do have quite a stockpile of tires I have purchased over the years! Yes, probably enought to outfit everybody. So at this point I propose we have more discussion to determin which chassis would be competetive and what bodies we would like to use. I will check through my stockpile of slot car crap and see what I've got and how much/many. I may even have a stickpile of "spec" motors. We maybe able to put this class together as an RTR class, with the cars either complete or in kit form. ------------------Bill
5,543 November 16, 2008 11:01 am
Topic: Slot Racing in Oregon (0 replies, posted in NASTE)
Man, there is so much going on this year for slot racers! The NASTE 2009 Point Series is off and running, Beaverton Slot Car Club is racing again on Tuesday evenings, the OSCAR season is in full swing, Cape Horn has 1/24 races scheduled, Paser is racing 1/24 on Saturday nights, and NASTE has just started up with NASTE Thursdays. If there's a racer out there that can't find a place to race......he ain't lookin"!!
So here's some more racing on the horizon;
Bryan Trachsel is interested in starting up some HO racing at his place. Bryan has two HO tracks, a 4 lane Tomy, and a 4 lane Buck's Track. Both tracks are very nice! Check out the forum under HO Cars for what's going on.
Larry Cockerham and I have been talking for quite some time about a 1/24 vintage class. Take a look in the forum under 1/24 cars for information regarding a vintage class.
Monte Saager has his SCX Digital track up and running. Man, this is a whole new world!!!!!!
With all this racing available, I NEED to retire!............anybody looking to employ a full time slot racer?
---------------------------Bill
5,544 November 16, 2008 10:50 am
Topic: HO Racing (0 replies, posted in Cars)
Bryan is up for some HO racing at his place. What classes or types of cars would racers be interested in racing? Bryan and I were thinking T-Jets and/or Magna-Traction cars. Who's interested in racing HO? ----------Bill
5,545 November 16, 2008 10:44 am
Re: Potential Classes for NASTE Racing (63 replies, posted in Cars)
Larry, I'll look through my stuff and see how many of those types of chassis I have. I'll start working on one for a runner also. What about tires? What should we run for rears? --------------------Bill
5,546 November 16, 2008 10:43 am
Re: Potential Classes for NASTE Racing (63 replies, posted in Cars)
More from Larry:
I only have this one Classic chassis.. Garvic, Monogram, Revell & classic aluminum 36 d sidewinder car isn't what I like to build & collect so I have sold all the one I have ever had. I got this car after you said we might try running them. These cars run like big T-JET's and you can drive a truck under one of them.. They have 1" to 1 1/8 rear tires just so the gear won't hit the track. I think we should just allow the 4 type cars.. I can look up the chassis stock numbers and list them and the cars that came with them in kit or RTR.. The Classic and Gravic only came as RTR, but they did sell just chassis as parts. Now Monogram and Revell sold RTR, Kits and Parts.
I think any stock 36 d motor would be legal as long as it has no ARCO magnets. I would like to do some RD on this Manta ray and see if I can make it work.. As far as adding some weight to the chassis I think I will try some?? Wish I had a track ... If you have one of these cars why don't you play with it and see if you can make it work and let me know. You have a track to test it on.
This might be fun trying to make these cars work good enough so we can race them.. What I remember is that they go like hell wheeling down the straightaway and tip over in the corners. Well let me know what I have to do to post.. Larry
5,547 November 16, 2008 9:11 am
Re: Potential Classes for NASTE Racing (63 replies, posted in Cars)
A follow up message I received from Larry:
The Manta Ray came with a Lotus 30 body also. The trouble with running the old bodies is that they brake so easy. If we could find some of the parma one that would be great. The nice thing about the Nascar bodies is there cheap... I paid $4.99 for the ones I bought off e-bay.. And that was all painted and decaled.. I see them all the time like this.
These cars are wheelie Machines if you remember and they didn't run to bad. To much power and you wheelie out. I think this would be a fun class and a real challage to get them to work half way.. I add a swinging piece of brass onto the swing arm from the front axle like I did on that AMT car you seen. It didn't seem to work on it, but it helped the Classic ASP that I built..
Well see if you can get some people interested in buying some cars.. I'll bet that most of these guys has at least one laying around. I know Terry has some vintage stuff and Brian & Jeff might too. If not there will be a way to find some. E-BAY
Larry
5,548 November 16, 2008 9:09 am
Topic: Potential Classes for NASTE Racing (63 replies, posted in Cars)
I got this email from Larry Cockerham. We were talking about a possible 1/24 vintage class:
This is a Classic Manta Ray that I bought on E-bay and the 4" Nascar body fit perfect on it. You know that Garvic makes that same type chassis & motor set up. I don't know if we could get anyone interested in buying one to race. Do you have one? Hell they made & sold over a million of these Manta Ray's.. So there are a lot of these around..Well let me know what you think bud.. Larry
5,549 November 15, 2008 5:54 pm
Re: NASTE Thursdays (41 replies, posted in NASTE)
Good point! I'd hate to get banned before the starting flag even dropped!!!
5,550 November 15, 2008 8:56 am
Re: NASTE Thursdays (41 replies, posted in NASTE)
Hey Monte, How about some moving targets?????........Didn't you say you had some "strays" around the neighborhood????...............