I did see Doc hit an honest 6.0 something with his Thunderslot.
176 October 21, 2021 9:07 pm
Re: NASTE Odd Thursday Night Racing Rules & Current Thread (2,128 replies, posted in NASTE)
177 October 10, 2021 10:08 am
Re: NASTE 2022 Point Series Championship - Results & Standings (31 replies, posted in NASTE)
I don't know about Monte's old car, Mine won the last race handily after running mid pack for most of the proxy. But during the Covid lockdown I found it and fussed with it out of shear boredom. It is now NSR smooth and quiet, despite the heavier body it is still capable of running down into the 5s all day long. With the 25K motor it only qualifies for our open class where I'd rather run a Thunderslot. It's not even legal for the proxy I built it for.
As for running 80 laps at Al's, I could never do it but a better driver might. I'll try to remember to find it, clean it, oil it, and bring it. It might be a fun diversion to see just who can get the most laps out of it in three minutes.
178 October 8, 2021 8:48 pm
Re: NASTE 2022 Point Series Championship - Results & Standings (31 replies, posted in NASTE)
I have a Carrera that might..It is a bit modified, but it still runs in the Carrera Proxy as a Carrera. I should dig it out and dust it off once in a while.
wb0s wrote:NASTE 2022 Point Series Championship Race No.1 @ Rippin' Ridin' Raceway October 7, 2021
Race Results - GFX Class:
1 Daniel 81.4 Laps - 7 points.
2 Al 77.9 - 6 pts.
3 Rico 74.0 - 5 pts.
4 David 73.3 - 4 pts.
5 Jeff 71.7 - 3 points
6 Mitch 69.1 - 2 pts.
7 Greg 68.5 - 1 pt.Current Standings for the 2022 NASTE Point Series Championship After 1 Race:
1st Daniel - 7 points.
2nd Al - 6 pts.
3rd Rico - 5 pts.
4th David - 4 pts.
5th Jeff - 3 pts.
6th Mitch - 2 pts.
7th Greg - 1pt.need to fix the class name. There no way in hell that any thing that starts with the Carrea going run 80 plus laps at Al track ..
179 October 6, 2021 9:03 am
Re: No new post (4 replies, posted in Cars)
UGH..............all I can say is YUCK!
We could use it to keep the shop door from closing!
Yeah like I said this was for fun while the glue is setting up on my other body, I've seen these race on videos, what you CAN see of them anyway. Most of the time their fingers never move. I'm not sure where the fun is in that, this BTW the way is nothing like that, it is just a bit faster than my other 4" Flexi and my "Howie" spec Can Am car, but it is very easy to drive right at the limit. I can see where some of the more competitive guys could be sucked in by this "Dark Side".
180 October 6, 2021 6:51 am
Topic: No new post (4 replies, posted in Cars)
There were no new post or active post this morning so here is something to look at. It is a 4" Flexi that we don't really race anywhere but we may be at Bill's on Mondays.
This car usually has a vintage stock car body on it but I noticed it had some small cracks in the fender wells that need attention. This "door stop is what came on the car. After reading an article about how "wing" car also ruined how hobby I added these small fake "wings" to create and air pocket wow what a difference. I've never driven a real wing car and this is not a wing car chassis or a group 12 motor, it is a 4" Flexy with an H&R Crusher motor, but it still the fastest car I own running 5.4 laps on my track with ease.
Very fun, just for fun car.
Have a good day folks and for those who are interested we will be racing Trans Am and GFX cars on Thursday at Al's.
181 October 3, 2021 7:50 pm
Topic: Thanks Stan (3 replies, posted in Track)
Thanks Stan for having us out.
The new/old venue looks fantastic, and the Chili was great.
182 October 2, 2021 4:41 am
Re: Open Racing at Autodromo Rossa Colline (6 replies, posted in Events)
Stan,
Chris and I plan on coming out.
183 September 30, 2021 6:22 pm
Re: March 7th Classic NASCAR Race Details & Rules (10 replies, posted in Springwater Raceway)
I may even be able to get a bit lower.
184 September 27, 2021 8:43 pm
Topic: Womps and Flexies today (4 replies, posted in InSlot's Checkered Flag Raceway)
8 of us got together at Bill's today and raced Womps and Flexies.
Dave Smith took a look at what I was pushing around the track and gave me some pointers on Womp set up.
When I got home I changed the gearing from 7/25 to 8/25.
I repositioned the motor so that the shaft centered on the center of the rear axle.
I lowered the body by about 3/16"
Not only is it now much quieter, I gained 5/10s on each lap at least on my track.
Thanks Dave
Ready for a re-match
185 September 25, 2021 7:18 pm
Re: vote to allow thunderslot cars in can am (39 replies, posted in NASTE)
I have both Lolas, Coupe & Spyder, the McLaren and the Elva. Out of the box they all run very similar. The blue Lola Spyder is the only one I've done much tinkering with .
I've added and removed weight a dozen times. I've copied and altered what Chris Walker posted online. Last Thursday It ran several 6.1s including a 6.10.
I imagine that with similar tuning they are all capable of the same performance.
186 September 19, 2021 7:17 pm
Re: vote to allow thunderslot cars in can am (39 replies, posted in NASTE)
Your right Bill. Perhaps it's not having too many classes rather than trying to prepare for and race too many classes per season. Maybe we should look more at our scheduling and try to race fewer classes each year. Most of us would probably be better off pouring resources into maybe four classes each season than trying to cover ten or however many we currently are trying to run.
Some cars can sit in a drawer for a while, believe me I know.
187 September 16, 2021 8:15 pm
Re: vote to allow thunderslot cars in can am (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?
Well now, Actually we now have a few Slot its and a couple of NSRs capable of Thunderslot times, though most but not all have come off of the same workbench.
The other way to look at it is for the new racer rather than spending $50 on a Slot It and another $30 to make it run like a Thunderslot they can just spend $79.99 on a Thunderslot and be ahead of the game.
And while a Slot It and an NSR can be made to run that speed a Thunderslot is much easier(shall we say effortless) to drive that fast, this is also in the new racers favor.
I'll also say that at the moment my fastest Thunderslot is faster and smoother than it has ever been, yet there are three non Thunderslot Porsche 997s in a proxy box downstairs that are faster. Go figure.
188 September 15, 2021 7:33 pm
Re: NASTE Odd Thursday Night Racing Rules & Current Thread (2,128 replies, posted in NASTE)
That's why I passed on Monday. I'll pick through what's left over later. I have a bunch in a drawer. I'm more interested in the ones I'm not so familiar with.
189 September 15, 2021 9:32 am
Re: 2021 Porsche 977 proxy (6 replies, posted in Events)
Okay, let's run these cars Sunday afternoon we can plan to start 2ish but I'll have the track open by one if somebody wants to just run some cars around.
These are some of the fastest, smoothest cars I even seen in a proxy. A few of them were hard to stop after they completed their qualification laps.
I spent couple of hours working on my fastest Thunderslot and it might have qualified 3rd.
190 September 14, 2021 7:07 pm
Re: MONDAY OT (Open Track) (140 replies, posted in InSlot's Checkered Flag Raceway)
I came home and started digging thru my 1/24 stuff to repair mine and found an original Hanna chassis, probably what I should have started with.
191 September 14, 2021 7:04 pm
Re: 2021 Patriot 500 (12 replies, posted in Springwater Raceway)
Great Photos Bill.
192 September 14, 2021 6:59 pm
Re: NASTE Odd Thursday Night Racing Rules & Current Thread (2,128 replies, posted in NASTE)
Mail order available?
If you have a particular interest I can bring something by Monte
My Harley is begging to leave the garage.
193 September 14, 2021 6:57 pm
Re: 2021 Porsche 977 proxy (6 replies, posted in Events)
It is, I'm think perhaps Sunday afternoon if there is any interest.
194 September 14, 2021 6:35 am
Re: NASTE Odd Thursday Night Racing Rules & Current Thread (2,128 replies, posted in NASTE)
Heads up guys. I went through some boxes and I will have a crap load of NEW motors for sale at Al's next Odd Thursday Night Race. I have a LARGE variety of motors for $6 or less!
I pawed through these, they are not junk. Slot-It, H&R, Scaleauto, ect.
195 September 7, 2021 7:35 pm
Re: NASTE Odd Thursday Night Racing (91 replies, posted in Race Rules)
You haven't driven my Thunderslot Lola lately. Solid 5.6s on my track all day long, I'll try to remember to bring it to Al's on Thursday.
196 September 7, 2021 7:30 pm
Re: Race Coordinator, Trackmate, ECT. (6 replies, posted in Track)
I don't remember the name but it is a car/motorcycle museum., oh and my Fly Ferrari for LeMans is running 6.3s
You learn a lot of tuning tricks from well built proxy cars, even without taking the body off.
197 September 1, 2021 3:31 pm
Topic: 2021 Porsche 977 proxy (6 replies, posted in Events)
The car are qualified. We need to pick a time that works for the most people in the next couple of weeks. If you like fast cars you'll want to participate. The slowest car ran a 6.6, the top two ran 5.3 and the rest were of course all in between. Until this morning 5.4 was the fastest lap I've ever ran here.
Perhaps an evening will work best for most of us.
Chime in and let me know.
198 September 1, 2021 5:54 am
Topic: Race Coordinator, Trackmate, ECT. (6 replies, posted in Track)
As most of you know there have been issues with Race Coordinator on some of our tracks, Mine, Al's, Montes, Howies, ect.
Some of these have been fixed by switching to Trackmate hardware.
My issue wasn't loss of power like the others, Mine would go to a blue screen and having to restart the PC. Sometimes this would happen while idle, most of the time it was when adding racers or setting up a race.
I took the PC down to the local guru in town He checked it out and told me there was nothing wrong with the unit and it was probably something in the digital download. His suggestion was to remove the program and install it again.
I did this repeatedly to no good affect.
Monte and Al set up my timing system while I was recovering from my stroke so my awareness was somewhat limited, but since I had no wifi or internet downstairs at the time we downloaded the program on the PC upstairs and put it on a memory stick to transfer to the race PC.
After adding Wifi downstairs I had never tried a direct download to the race PC. That was the trick, in my case it has worked flawlessly since. I think part of the program is getting corrupted in the memory stick transfer.
Just an FYI for those of you who are wanting to set up a timing system at home.
199 August 31, 2021 8:59 pm
Re: Can-Am cars for sale. (15 replies, posted in For Sale or Trade)
I had this idea about limiting myself to just one car for each class so I could give it all my attention. It's not working out so well at this point.
200 August 31, 2021 6:37 am
Re: Can-Am cars for sale. (15 replies, posted in For Sale or Trade)
Those look great, If I hadn't just done a bunch of work on mine I would grab one.