151 Reply by kidvolt

(27 replies, posted in Penguin Point Raceway)

Yesterday we loaded up the track and it headed south to Cottage Grove with its' new owner.

Thank you Mike, may your racing be pleasant.

Now to build a rally track.

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152 Reply by kidvolt

(8 replies, posted in Events)

Go Doc, go!

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153 Reply by kidvolt

(18 replies, posted in For Sale or Trade)

Well, it sounds like all his troubles are behind him.  I hope everything came out ok.

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154 Reply by kidvolt

(27 replies, posted in Penguin Point Raceway)

PEAK!

Rally hill climb.  Get your boots, guys.

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155 Reply by kidvolt

(27 replies, posted in Penguin Point Raceway)

The track has a new owner.  It's going to Cottage Grove.  We feel pretty good about this.

So long Penguin Point, hello Penguin Peak.

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156 Reply by kidvolt

(10 replies, posted in Events)

Great report Bill.  Looks like a fun time was had.  Mr. Phillis sure gets around. 

Not knowing much of the crowd, was that also a bunch of Ron's racers?

That green Vette looks to have hard a hard life.

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157 Reply by kidvolt

(2,192 replies, posted in NASTE)

I thought the Tommy Ivo post was very cool.  What a splendid person.

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158 Reply by kidvolt

(27 replies, posted in Penguin Point Raceway)

Yes, please.

Needs to find a new home soon or it will be heading up the road to the landfill. 

That would be a sad day indeed.

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159 Reply by kidvolt

(4 replies, posted in Cars)

Vic and I went to the Vancouver shop one time.  They gave her a wing car to run circles around me with.  She liked it a lot.

It does look a little like it got stepped on already.

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160 Reply by kidvolt

(1 replies, posted in For Sale or Trade)

Thank you.

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161 Reply by kidvolt

(27 replies, posted in Penguin Point Raceway)

The track will be going to Doc in Vancouver.

Thank you very much.

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162 Topic by kidvolt

(1 replies, posted in For Sale or Trade)

Contact me please.

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163 Reply by kidvolt

(27 replies, posted in Penguin Point Raceway)

Track is still available at no cost to a local buyer.

It is now disassembled and is basically two 4x8 sections with a third smaller one and a complete PC system for scoring.

All you need is a power supply.

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164 Reply by kidvolt

(39 replies, posted in NASTE)

I'll say this , I give much credit to Thunderslot for building cars that compete with both NSR and Slot.It without copying the exact formula.

I seem to recall letting our favorite South American run my car one night and without any practice at all and he was kicking some tail as well.

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165 Reply by kidvolt

(39 replies, posted in NASTE)

And one of the things is the Thunderslots don't even have to be well tuned, just taken out of the box and put on the track.  The NSR's may be similar.

Maybe the Can Am class should just be Slot.It cars, there are plenty of those to go around.

Well tuned ones, of course.

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166 Reply by kidvolt

(39 replies, posted in NASTE)

Amen. brother, amen.

At least until something faster comes along.

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167 Reply by kidvolt

(39 replies, posted in NASTE)

Agreed.

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168 Reply by kidvolt

(39 replies, posted in NASTE)

Thanks Al.

You could be right.  Or augments it.

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169 Reply by kidvolt

(39 replies, posted in NASTE)

"A few and a couple" against the standard out-of-the-box car.  Imagine what that Thunderslot might be like with time invested in it like was invested in the few and a couple - which is what will be next.

I'm ok with this but for the majority it's just buy a Thunderslot and go racing.

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170 Reply by kidvolt

(39 replies, posted in NASTE)

And list as not useful all the rest maybe.  ;-)

At least it supports the spirit of the Can Am class.

Not to argue the vote but I only saw two, not six.  What did I miss?

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171 Reply by kidvolt

(2,192 replies, posted in NASTE)

I'm easy, I can wait until the crowd dies down.   I'm sure I can select something out of the remains.  Thank you, Bill.

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172 Reply by kidvolt

(2,192 replies, posted in NASTE)

Holy hell!

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173 Reply by kidvolt

(2,192 replies, posted in NASTE)

Mail order available?

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174 Reply by kidvolt

(6 replies, posted in Track)

I have the info for the Museum in Salem and sent them an email, let's see if they respond.

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175 Reply by kidvolt

(6 replies, posted in Track)

Of note, the boards we were using for relays were never intended to be used at those current levels, rather 132 at 10v and such.

I talked with Mike (my DRS partner) and he had no interest in upping the levels for larger scale applications.

The Race Coordinator issue in my opinion and backed by testing and research has always been a poor implementation of the serial port driver.  I discussed this at length with the software developer and his reaction was basically to switch to USB.  With his own software package.  So basically he didn't put in the time to make a serial interface work right.

Here's what I found with testing.

I have run my track/system here for just a little over 12 years using Ultimate Racer without issue.  I tried Race Coordinator and in the FIRST RACE HEAT the race was stopped by the typical issue we would see at Al's.  End of story.

Bottom line for me - use something other than Race Coordinator if you are going with a serial port connection.

Trackmate with their own hardware should always be solid.  Same with the DS stuff.  In fact I am looking at using the DS bits I have for my "new" track project.  If only the stop and go boxes that went to the track at the Museum of Speed would resurface.

Pleasant day to you all.

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