Topic: This is the Can Am page.
by howie » Mon Sep 24, 2012 9:52 am
All news and race reports pertaining to Can-Am will be on this page.
Can-Am has an open chassis, this is a Beau chassis made from a Flexi 2.
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by howie » Mon Sep 24, 2012 9:57 am
Race of Sept. 22, 2012.
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by howie » Sun Dec 16, 2012 8:45 am
Race of Dec. 15th. 2012. Gary celebrated his 49th. birthday by supplying the pizza and winning the race!! Thanks Gary, it was good stuff!!
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by howie » Sun Feb 17, 2013 9:13 am
Race of Feb. 16th. 2013. A great race was had with this group of racers. Not a lot of time to relax, you were either racing or corner marshalling. In between races we took a break and drank coffee, had a cookie or two, Bill added to the goodie bench and basically bs'd, practiced with the NASCAR's and had a good time.
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by howie » Sun Oct 27, 2013 7:36 am
Small field of cars, never the less we managed to pull it off!!
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by howie » Sun Feb 02, 2014 8:49 am
The Can-Am class has moved up a notch or two thanks to BB! He won the race and set a new track record: under 4 seconds! The fastest legal car ever to race here. The official time is on the News page. Thanks to all who showed up to race, it was fun!
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by howie » Sun Feb 08, 2015 12:08 pm
Race of Feb. 7, 2015. We had a big day of racing that included Can-Am, NASCAR ( any type ), TA-2 and Sportsman.
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by beaufrazier » Tue Feb 10, 2015 4:53 pm
The battle continues between the scratchhbuilders and the Production chassis groups in this class. Sometimes close sometimes not, but the challenge is still on. It's a good spirited battle with many races to go. Let's go Production group!!!!!
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by howie » Sun Mar 22, 2015 7:13 am
Race of March 21, 2015. Good turnout and some close racing was had for a very popular class.
Points have been added to the News page.
John Fisher, Dayle, Dwayne, Beau waiting for the green flag to drop.
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by howie » Sun Apr 05, 2015 9:59 am
Race of April 4, 2015. We had another good and close race with just 5 entries! We raced three classes and took time between for coffee, cookies and general BS'n! I thank Gearloose, John Fisher, Bob Nak., Beau for showing up and to have a good time! That we did.
We raced 3 classes of cars and had 3 different winners!
Results: Homebuilt 1st. Gearloose...392 laps. 4.617363 Red.
" 2nd. Beau........387 4.608813 Blue.
" 3rd. John F......378 4.617220 Red
Scholer 4th. Bob Nak....376 4.780666 Red
" 5th. Howie......371 4.780929 Red.
The Red lane was really the hot lane tonight for this class. I will clean the track before the next race.
We discovered that the track power is down to 11.3 volts for some reason. The voltage is normally 13+ I will see if I can find out what the problem is, I know..................I'll call Hugh!!
Points will be added to the News page.
During the off season there will be a home built chassis session for the Can-Am cars, we already have 5 racers so far who want to participate!
John Fisher's new home built and nice Mclaren. Detail is GREAT!
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by howie » Sun Apr 19, 2015 7:34 am
Race of Apr. 18th. 2015. Now that we have our 13.5 volts back ( thanks Hugh ) we are turning some good times once again. I am having computer issues at the present time, so I will not be posting pictures 'till the issue is resolved.
Here are the results:
1st.....Beau..................400 laps..........4.445165 sec.................yellow. ( H )
2nd....Gearloose............394................4.554371......................blue. ( H )
3rd....Bob N..................361...............4.554562.......................yellow. ( Scholer )
4th....Dayle..................359................4.664534......................blue. ( Scholer )
5th....Howie..................312...............4.500035.......................yellow. ( Scholer )
6th....Ted.....................DIsq. ( H )
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by howie » Sun Apr 26, 2015 8:15 am
Race of April 25, 2015 results:
1st..........Beau............403 laps..........3.902663 sec................red.....homebuilt
2nd.........John F..........383................3.839764.....................blue....H
3rd.........Gearloose......377.................4.499287....................blue.....H
4th.........Marty...........341.................4.718930.....................blue....H
5th.........Howie...........247.................4.343784....................blue....Scholer
6th.........Stuart......Disq.
For points go to Pit Stop then points and records.
Left to right: Gearloose, Stuart, Marty, Beau.
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by howie » Sun May 10, 2015 8:17 am
May 9, 2015, last race of the season results:
1...Howie.............386 laps.......4.499408.............yellow lane............S (Scholer)
2...Ted................383.............4.499814.............white...................H (homebuilt)
3...Gearloose.........380.............4.718155............white....................H
4...Beau...............373.............3.516300.............red......................H
5...Marty..............366.............4.827974.............yellow...................H
6...Dwayne............359.............4.554572.............yellow...................S
7...Bob N..............358.............4.562074..............Yellow..................S
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by howie » Sun Oct 18, 2015 8:35 am
First Can-Am race of the season. It was supposed to be for points, but thanks to my error it turned into a no points fun race! Beau took the checkered with his new chassis.
Beaus new and winning Can-Am. Ted's car #22 also.
Bill's new Can-Am with an old chassis he updated for this class.
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by wb0s » Sun Oct 18, 2015 8:41 pm
I had a great time racing the Can Am cars last night Howie! I'm hoping with a little more work I can improve my performance as well as my car's at the next race!
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by howie » Sun Nov 15, 2015 12:01 pm
Race of Nov. 14th. '15. The first points race of the season. It was very close racing. The repair to the track made for longer guide flag brush life I believe, at least mine looked a heck of a lot better after the race concluded. Jairus Watson came up and didn't race, but he is doing a report on North West tracks for the new Slot Cars Magazine. He did corner marshal the entire race though and I thank him for that. I believe he had a good time, hope so. Thanks to Susan and John Gill for the bag of candy bars that was left over from Holloween, they were a popular hit!
At the starting line, left to right: Howie, Gearloose, Beau, Bob N.
Bob Schiefer' Can-Am car, nice! and a good runner.
Jairus Watson.
Results of a very close race.
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by howie » Sun Nov 29, 2015 9:12 am
The Can-Am class once again takes to the track with some very close racing.
Left to right: Bill, Dwayne, Ted, Howie. Ready to launch!
Gearloose's new car.
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by howie » Sun Jan 24, 2016 11:04 am
Race of Jan. 23rd. '16. Gearloose showed us the way to victory lane.
Left to right: Bob N., Marty, Dwayne, Bob S.
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by howie » Sun Feb 07, 2016 11:02 am
For the final time this yr. the Can-Am took to the track. This is a VERY popular class, one that will be in the forefront for a long time.
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The previous posts to this topic were copied over from the Northwest True Scale Racers site with Howie's permission. The NTSR site is scheduled to close down at the end of this year. I will be copying over as much of the great information posted there as possible in the next few months. =====Bill
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Dennis A.K.A. DC Dynamo sent me these photos of his AWESOME Can Am cars to post up and share with everyone. Dennis' blue and orange Can Am car finished in first place in the Can Am race at Inslot's Checkered Flag Raceway on November 23rd.
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Very cool designs. The flexi car he loaned me was also amazing, if only I could drive it properly!
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I really like front wheels that look like front wheels.
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Very nice chassis Dennis!
What keeps the front from scraping the track as you go around corners? I don't see any thing that will stop it from doing so, the rubber band does not look like it will stop it!
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Very nice chassis Dennis!
What keeps the front from scraping the track as you go around corners? I don't see any thing that will stop it from doing so, the rubber band does not look like it will stop it!
On light weight cars, leaning forces in the corners are minimal. That is why most all the faster race classes run on a Tri-Pod setup with no touching and rolling front tires. It is true they do lightly drag either the front bumper guards or the leading edge of the body in the turns and can be proved by the black scum accumulation on those parts.
I adjust the tension on my front axle using a Thorp fiddle stick (replica) for 3 oz. No accumulation of black scum on the bottom proves the rubber bands are doing the job. On a higher bank tho with high speeds, the front end might touch but only due to compression. Been doing rubber band suspension cars now (on scratch builds) for about 35 years.