1,126 May 10, 2021 10:14 pm
Re: Dale Earnhardt Memorial NASCAR Race at Tom's World in Bend Oregon (9 replies, posted in OSCAR)
1,127 May 10, 2021 10:10 pm
Re: Dale Earnhardt Memorial NASCAR Race at Tom's World in Bend Oregon (9 replies, posted in OSCAR)
1,128 May 10, 2021 10:07 pm
Re: Dale Earnhardt Memorial NASCAR Race at Tom's World in Bend Oregon (9 replies, posted in OSCAR)
1,129 May 10, 2021 10:04 pm
Re: Dale Earnhardt Memorial NASCAR Race at Tom's World in Bend Oregon (9 replies, posted in OSCAR)
More photos from the race:
1,130 May 10, 2021 10:02 pm
Topic: Dale Earnhardt Memorial NASCAR Race at Tom's World in Bend Oregon (9 replies, posted in OSCAR)
On May 8th 2021 Tom Street held his annual Dale Earnhardt Memorial Race. This was an OSCAR race for the NASCAR Class which are 1/24 scale scratchbuilt chassis cars powered by super 16D motors. The speed and handling of these cars is surprising! With 16 entries of these incredibly fast hard bodied cars, it was sure to be an exciting day of racing!
A qualifying session sets the grid for two divisions of racing. The top eight qualifiers were slated for the Monster Energy Race, and the lower eight qualifiers were gridded for the Xfinity Race. The winner of the Xfinity Race has the option of moving up into the Monster Energy Race or being credited with the Xfinity Race win. If the winner choses to move up he then receives the Iron Man Award for competing in both races! In this scenario the next highest finisher in the Xfinity race is declared the winner.
The track at Tom's World is a four lane routed track that is long, fast, tight, tricky, and very technical! It is the most difficult track I have ever raced on and that includes the legendary three lane track of Lee Dundas' in Wilsonville! It took me 20 years to get over to Bend to race on Tom's track. I wish I would have made it sooner!
In the Xfinity Race it was Jim with the win. Bob Nak got the option to move up to the Monster Energy race. The Monster Energy race was won by Curt, who by the way was also the top qualifier for the day. Both races were action packed and saw lots of good side by side racing. It was a fun and exciting day! Thank you Tom for another fantastic day of racing!
1,131 May 8, 2021 10:44 pm
Re: Tifosi Racing (18 replies, posted in Cars)
I certainly understand why Howie!
1,132 May 8, 2021 10:43 pm
Re: NASTE Odd Thursday Night Racing Rules & Current Thread (2,165 replies, posted in NASTE)
I take it your wife doesn't read your posts here Doc...............
1,133 May 6, 2021 5:36 pm
Re: Tifosi Racing (18 replies, posted in Cars)
Thanks Zack....not much of a "build" yet...but one hell of a "tear apart"!
1,134 May 6, 2021 2:34 pm
Re: Tifosi Racing (18 replies, posted in Cars)
These are the pieces that make up the fourth or top layer of the chassis.
These are all the components laid out in their respective layers. With each layer being approximately .050" thick, the finished chassis thickness is pretty porky at .200" overall!
1,135 May 6, 2021 2:29 pm
Re: Tifosi Racing (18 replies, posted in Cars)
These are the pieces that make up the third layer. They are secured to the lower (second layer) using screw, washers, and nuts.
Some of the pieces are captured rather than screw tightened, which allows those pieces to free float to some degree. 
1,136 May 6, 2021 2:25 pm
Re: Tifosi Racing (18 replies, posted in Cars)
This is the second layer which the motor bracket/mount attaches to (in this photo the motor bracket is install backwards). Again, this layer is secured to the lower or first layer with adhesive as a laminated joint.
After gluing the first two layers together the rest of the chassis is bolt together.
1,137 May 6, 2021 2:14 pm
Re: Tifosi Racing (18 replies, posted in Cars)
TWO THINGS!
1. I've learned more about these Tifosi chassis than I ever needed to know!
2. I have spent WAY too much time messing with it!
The Tifosi website appears to be long gone. I don't know of anyplace that has any information on them. So just in case anyone (like me) has a Tifosi chassis that needs assembly here are some photos of the chassis and its construction (if anybody even cares).......
The chassis basically consists of four layers of stacked plates and parts. Kind of like making a sandwich.
This is the bottom or first layer which is laminated to the bottom side of the next or second layer. I don't know what was used for adhesive to assemble this particular chassis but, it took a LOT of heat to get the first two layers of plates separated!
This bottom layer of plates seems to be used to keep the screw heads from hanging down below the bottom of the chassis. The screw heads are positioned in the cut-outs of the plate pieces. I guess that is much easier than trying to counter sink the screws in a piece of spring steel! I'm sure this layer also serves to add some desired overall weight.
1,138 May 6, 2021 2:04 pm
Re: Mile High Raceway - Classes & Schedule (3 replies, posted in Oregon Retro Racers Association)
I have more Womp chassis than you can shake a stick at!
1,139 May 6, 2021 8:30 am
Topic: Mile High Raceway - Classes & Schedule (3 replies, posted in Oregon Retro Racers Association)
1,140 May 5, 2021 1:26 pm
Re: Northwest True Scale Racers - Rules (13 replies, posted in Rapid Raceway)
Updated May 5, 2021 - Addition of rules for Classic NASCAR Class.
1,141 May 5, 2021 10:08 am
Re: Tifosi Racing (18 replies, posted in Cars)
I'm not sure who he had machine the parts.
The motor bracket is machined aluminum.
1,142 May 5, 2021 9:00 am
Re: Tifosi Racing (18 replies, posted in Cars)
Thanks for the tip Zack, I agree! I don't know if I have the knowledge or skill to make one of these work well, but I'm going to try to get something that works. I'm pretty sure getting one of these chassis to work well with a hardbody is beyond my skill level!
1,143 May 5, 2021 8:58 am
Re: Some short-track style builds I am doing. (4 replies, posted in Cars)
Very cool and as always a super clean build! Nice job Zack!
1,144 May 5, 2021 6:47 am
Re: Bill's Junk (240 replies, posted in Slot Talk)
These photos are actually taken in the upstairs of the new shop. This room is almost identical in shape and size to the room I had for my slot car stuff in our house in Fairview. The biggest difference is actually; more stuff!
A lot of slot cars have passed through here in the last couple of years. These shelves have been full, twice!
1,145 May 5, 2021 6:34 am
Re: Bill's Junk (240 replies, posted in Slot Talk)
Here's an updated photo of the display case.
1,146 May 5, 2021 6:32 am
Re: Art for the Shop (7 replies, posted in Slot Talk)
I figure it's about time for an update. Here's the finished bench with the LED shop light installed.
1,147 May 4, 2021 10:10 pm
Re: Tifosi Racing (18 replies, posted in Cars)
Yes, I always thought David was a great guy!
Last I heard he moved to California. He has a Facebook page, but I have not seen anything posted by him for years.
1,148 May 4, 2021 10:07 pm
Re: Current Status (137 replies, posted in Slot Talk)
I haven't posted in here for quite some time.......about 4 1/2 years. For some reason this section of the forum gets a lot of views! So since the last posts here so much has happened! The post just two up from this one was by our dear friend "Goose". Sadly we lost him, he passed away just a couple years ago. We have also lost one of our local slot car heroes Bob McFarland. Before Bob passed he allowed me to become the new caretaker of Checkered Flag Raceway.
Oh yeah, since those last posts in 2016 Diane and I have moved to Vancouver Washington from our place in Fairview Oregon. Too Bad Motorplex was dismantled and as far as I know is still in storage in the Corbett area of Oregon. Once we got moved up here to Vancouver we had a 28' x 30' shop built, where Inslot's Checkered Flag Raceway is now housed. I have finally finished all the revisions I wanted to make to the track and we have held two OSCAR races, a PASER race, and a Northwest True Scale race on the track so far. I purchased "Goose's" entire slot car collection and am still selling off the excess. At this point in time I figure I must still have somewhere around 1,000 to 2,000 slot cars in all scales, all makes, all types, old and new.
We're over one year into this COVID 19 pandemic thing. Diane and I are good, we have both been shot, twice. We finally have most everything we wanted to do to our house done, inside and out. It's been a long process but we are finally getting into a more normal routine, well as normal as the current COVID situation will allow. This evening for some reason I was drawn to the NASTE website's Forum and I began reading some of the old posts. So here I sit typing away.
1,149 May 4, 2021 8:59 pm
Re: Tifosi Racing (18 replies, posted in Cars)
Now I know I should focus on building and working on the cars I actually race, but sometimes I just can't help myself from taking off after a rabbit........or two.....Zack made an excellent comment, and I think it probably applies to me. He said "some guys biggest problems with their race program is they have too many cars."....Yup, that would probably be me!
But what can I say, I love them all and especially old stuff! Anyway I have no idea where my Tifosi project is going, where it will end up, or when. But for right now it's on the bench.......Good news, I got my Porsche 962 Scholer chassis work completed! That one is race ready again!
Check out this monster Tifosi motor bracket!
Part of the design and philosophy of the Tifosi chassis was that by purchasing additional plates and or modifying them, you could configure the chassis to fit various bodies and classes of racing. The chassis could also be tuned by adding different plates and parts.
Here's a couple photos of another complete chassis I have (luckily I have more chassis that are complete so I can figure out how the hell to put the one I tore apart back together!).
1,150 May 4, 2021 8:48 pm
Re: Tifosi Racing (18 replies, posted in Cars)
At sometime in the early 2000's, one of my local slot car heroes had a dream. He wanted to develop and manufacture a bolt together slot car chassis that could compete with the scratchbuilt brass chassis being built and raced in the Pacific Northwest. That is a tall order but Dave Naylor felt he could achieve that goal. The chassis design he came up with was a piece of art in my opinion. They always fascinated me with their precise and intricate machining work and parts design. One of the drawbacks for me at that period in time was cost. I just couldn't afford the cost of one of Dave's chassis.
Unfortunately the Tifosi Chassis never became popular. They were complicated and difficult to set up. Very few of the local racers were able to get one of the chassis up to speed. It's too bad, especially considering the time, effort, and expense Dave put into the project. But my lust and love for those chassis never ended, and as luck would have it over the last few years I have been able to pick up a few. I now consider myself an official Tifosi Chassis collector, so if you have any you want to unload, let me know.
So that brings us up to yesterday. For some reason, while I was working on my Porsche 962 Scholer chassis I decided to pull out one of my Tifosi chassis. This particular one was kind of a mess with a lot of the plates glued together. Luckily Zack had stopped by to do some testing and he gave me some great advise for tearing this particular chassis down. Out came the propane torch! Not the little one, the big one connected to map gas! After some serious heat applied I was able to separate all the different plates. Today I cleaned all the plates up using extensive amounts of Goof Off!
Here's what one of the plates/pieces looked like after I got them all separated.
These are all the plates and pieces that were used in the construction of this one chassis.