Tried out my 1/32 cars at Hemi Heights. Pretty much the same results. If anything their performance was even better on the Hemi Heights surface. The Slot.It Nissan and Lancia were definately better at Hemi Heights than the BullRing. The Slot.It cars, HRS TCONY, and NSR Mosler were the best, and all close in performance. The Carrera Roadrunner stock car and the Scalextric NASCAR Ford Taurus were again at the bottom of the heap, actually behind the Carrera Aston Martin. ------------Bill
5,677 December 20, 2008 11:35 am
Topic: NASTE Stuff..... (2 replies, posted in NASTE)
Hey guys I took a lesson from Dave Naylor of OSCAR. Check these out:
5,679 December 16, 2008 9:08 am
Re: SCX 1/43 cars (10 replies, posted in Cars)
So, we're on for June?????
5,680 December 16, 2008 8:21 am
Re: SCX 1/43 cars (10 replies, posted in Cars)
Monte, I have saws!!!! --------------------------Bill
5,681 December 11, 2008 6:41 pm
Re: NASTE for 2010 (51 replies, posted in NASTE)
I don't remember how much glue it had down. I don't think Jeff applies it over the whole track. I think he tacks it up the same way I tack up my track. ---------------Bill
5,682 December 11, 2008 5:48 pm
Re: NASTE for 2010 (51 replies, posted in NASTE)
How about we try out some different cars when we go out to Jeff's next Thursday (the 18th) for NASTE Thursday?
5,683 December 11, 2008 5:47 pm
Re: NASTE for 2010 (51 replies, posted in NASTE)
Yes! That's Glenn's tires on my TCONY car. ------------------Bill
5,684 December 11, 2008 5:36 pm
Re: NASTE for 2010 (51 replies, posted in NASTE)
More testing on the BullRing. Here's some results listed worst to best:
1/32 Carrera Roadrunner stock car. Stock wheels and tires front & rear. Body has been lowered on the chassis. Full interior replaced with cardstock & cut down driver figure. Magnets removed. A little lead in the front & rear, low in the chassis. Difficult to control in corners. Slides just a little then wham, on it's roof! Better, but still mostly sucks!
1/32 Carrera Aston Martin (007 car). Stock wheels & tires. Body slightly lowered on chassis. Full interior removed and replaced with flat card stock. Chassis is stock, no weight added. Works suprisingly well. Bettre than the Carrera Roadrunner, but still challenging in the corners.
1/32 Scalextric Taurus NASCAR. Sidewinder chassis. Golf club lead applied to underside of chassis. Rubber tires from a Scalextric Camaro. Works pretty well but needs a better guide flag - too shallow for 1/24 routed track.
1/32 Slot.It Lancia. Offset anglewinder pod. Independant rotating front wheels. Just a little lead up ahead of pod. Stock rubber tires. Not too bad - needs more traction.
1/32 Slot.It Nissan R390. This one has a bunch of lead added. That's about it. Works pretty well.
1/32 Slot.It HRS chassis based stock car. This is the Monte spec TCONY car (see details of mine in the gallery). Inline motor pod. Urethane rear tires. No weight or lead added to the chassis. This thing works great! Very fast & handles extremely well, much better than I thought it would!
1/32 NSR Mosler. STOCK. Anglewinder motor pod. NSR rubber rear tires. Unbelievable! Fast! Handles GREAT!
More to come...... -------------------Bill
5,685 December 10, 2008 3:50 pm
Re: NASTE for 2010 (51 replies, posted in NASTE)
Those are good points Rico. As you stated we will need to get input from more people. Quite a few potential classes are already being discussed, so I thought it would be good to get the dialog going well before next season! Maybe a combination of classes and race formats would be appropriate? Something for everyone? And most importantly, who's interested? -------------Bill
5,686 December 10, 2008 12:34 pm
Re: NASTE for 2010 (51 replies, posted in NASTE)
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
5,687 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
5,688 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
5,689 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
5,690 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!!!!
5,691 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
5,692 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
5,693 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
5,694 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
5,695 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
5,696 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
5,697 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
5,698 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
5,699 November 17, 2008 5:38 pm
Re: HO Slot racing................... (15 replies, posted in Track)
Great pictures Bryan!!!
5,700 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
