Racing Sunday 4th April 2010

[mikeyscott]

Racing as normal from what I understand.

[jamiekerr14]

Brilliant! This time.. no silly Iphone mucking up my morning alarm so I should be there fingers crossed. My plan, is to come race.. then go straight to clanfield to Practice/put few tanks new os speed ready for Monday meeting... urghhh -Weather permitting of course!

[dibble34]

I'm in :)

[mikeyscott]

I'm in :)

Cool more 4WD boys :)

Made a slight change to the Cat SX to aid steering on corner exit :) as I'm loosing a truck load of time on the last corner.

[dibble34]

Nice one, i will be 4wd this weekend. Looking forward to it, think i may prefer it to 2wd.

[mikeyscott]

Even more with a Cat SX2 :)

4wd is cleaner racing ;)

[jkonline]

Racing as normal from what I understand.

I should be there, Sunday weather looks ok just hope not too much rain in the next few days

[jamiekerr14]

Yea! Fingers crossed-Bit random but does anyone have a spare B44 thumb screw I could buy off them or even borrow one for sunday... seemed to have misplaced one.. today in the garden :mad:

If not.. some serious modding may need to happen :D

[SteveB]

Yea! Fingers crossed-Bit random but does anyone have a spare B44 thumb screw I could buy off them or even borrow one for sunday... seemed to have misplaced one.. today in the garden :mad:

If not.. some serious modding may need to happen :D

Would lend u some, but i'm still waiting for 2 back from about a month ago, I lent to someone from Torch and they have not returned them???? :mad: Use a nut in the mean time, I should be able to get hold of some soon. Let me know.

[mikeyscott]

For a deposit you can borrow my trishbits ones.. ;) from my B4.

[mikeyscott]

Brilliant! This time.. no silly Iphone mucking up my morning alarm so I should be there fingers crossed. My plan, is to come race.. then go straight to clanfield to Practice/put few tanks new os speed ready for Monday meeting... urghhh -Weather permitting of course!

Do you know if Tony is racing?

[jamiekerr14]

Ok thanks guys-Yea I have used a nut and a washer-Will have another look outside tomorrow for the nut.. and try my new nut-To make sure they hold. If all fails may have to take you up on it Mike haha.. yea think Tony is coming.. Should be good, cant believe how nice the b44 is to drive tbh.. has a blast earlier! on the grass haha.. cant wait.. just hope weather plays ball!

[mikeyscott]

Not as nice as an SX :p

Cool remember 08:30 and should be a good 4WD meeting

[simoncrabb]

I should be down again, 4wd.

[mikeyscott]

Super. Can you confirm your details and Pt please :) just to make sure we have the correct details.

shame no Lee or Neil in 4WD

as said previously if enough novice numbers they'll be their own heat.

[simoncrabb]

:lol: 2.4Ghz. 4wd pt: 7500322

[mikeyscott]

:lol: 2.4Ghz. 4wd pt: 7500322

Super :)

many thanks

feel free to drag any other racing buddies along ;)

[Randall34]

Sounds like 4wd will be the place to be this week, shame i'm going on holiday. But will be raring to go for EPR the week after.

Back at TORCH after that.

[simoncrabb]

I'm trying to convince Mark (makinwaves) to pay his first visit to Torch, he's needing to get his 511 on the astro...

[mikeyscott]

Nice one. So we'll have 511s, b44, Hb d4, xx4 and cat sx's

would like to see an x5, bmax and an x11 at torch

get his details to me then no excuse

[simoncrabb]

Through the power of cut and paste from dmsresults.co.uk :thumbsup:

13 Mark Townsend 7399 4wd Buggy Tamiya TRF511 40.875 40.825 40.795 Other 2849292 02 Mar 10 15:57

[mikeyscott]

All entered and your details for the 511 were correct :)

Cheers

[wylie]

Me and Cameron should be there weather permiting.

[mikeyscott]

Me and Cameron should be there weather permiting.

Super.

Going to be a great 4WD day.

So far I think we have

Mike
Steve B
Dan B
Dave
Tony
Jamie
Simon
Mark
Mac
Iain B
??

I think with these numbers 2 heats of 4WD? Shame no Neil or Lee!

Then potentially a 7 minute final like last week ;)

Simon, is Mark slower or quicker than you?

[jamiekerr14]

Think Grant F will be there too..

[mikeyscott]

Get him to pm / post his car details etc.

Awesome! Thought he would have been doing neo?

[jamiekerr14]

Ok-Will try speaking to him at some point.. dont have his mob so would have to contact him online his username is AmSMB
Should be same PT as when was last down would think.. not sure tbh:confused:

[mikeyscott]

We didn't have AMB last time. Plus it's been a while

add a Durango to the list :D

about time one turned up!

[AmiSMB]

I will be there details PM'ed

[mikeyscott]

I will be there details PM'ed

Fantastic. I will add your details later. What class are you racing?

[wylie]

Fribbers always runs FIRST class. :woot:

[simoncrabb]

Simon, is Mark slower or quicker than you?

Mark's always quicker... Just spoken to him and he's 50/50 coming down...

Fribbers too? Neat! I suspect he'll be getting his Fandango out for a run on astro ;-)

[mikeyscott]

Mark's always quicker... Just spoken to him and he's 50/50 coming down...

Fribbers too? Neat! I suspect he'll be getting his Fandango out for a run on astro ;-)

Ok cool, he's on the system with Grant

[mikeyscott]

Weather looks good for tomorrow. Get the ballistic spokes out :)

[dibble34]

Think i better get there early for some practice! Mike if you split 4wd will you then do the finals on overal quali results?

[mikeyscott]

Think i better get there early for some practice! Mike if you split 4wd will you then do the finals on overal quali results?

Yes final pos based around overall FTC qual.

[mikeyscott]

Hope everyone enjoyed today's meeting. Will post times later

[mikeyscott]

Today's results can now be found at

www.torchracing.org.uk/results

[simoncrabb]

:thumbsup: Ace morning, despite the wet stuff!

I'll post words and pictures later (ie after rebuilding the 511...)

[jkonline]

Agreed good morning, despite my terrible times and rubbish weather.

[mikeyscott]

:thumbsup: Ace morning, despite the wet stuff!

I'll post words and pictures later (ie after rebuilding the 511...)

Indeed, very good 4WD and look forward to more of it with spring and summer inbound.

John, I think Simon has got some good photos from today.

I'm in the process of a full strip of the Cat SX and then getting things sorted during the week for the EPR GP.

Fingers crossed for big bores turning up this week :)

[jamiekerr14]

Yea was a really good morning-Still think being all day would be ace.. but hey ho.. Was nice to have a fully functioning car! Hopefully next time can improve on today and try few setup changes and tyres ect! Very fun! cant wait till the new section is all complete and few more Jumps:woot::thumbsup:

[mikeyscott]

Yea was a really good morning-Still think being all day would be ace.. but hey ho.. Was nice to have a fully functioning car! Hopefully next time can improve on today and try few setup changes and tyres ect! Very fun! cant wait till the new section is all complete and few more Jumps:woot::thumbsup:

Hi Jamie,

We hope to have an all day meeting in May.

Mike

[simoncrabb]

Waffle and dozens of photos here:

http://rclazy.com/2010/04/04/titchfield-muddy-mischief/

:thumbsup:

[mikeyscott]

Waffle and dozens of photos here:

http://rclazy.com/2010/04/04/titchfield-muddy-mischief/

:thumbsup:

Soon the mud will be gone and we'd like to slow it down.

So, 4 rounds and a final?

No pics of my Cat SX - booo

What oil did you end up with in your 511?

[wylie]

Had a great day can't wait till May for all day meeting bit more relaxation.
Nice Photos Simon.

[mikeyscott]

Had a great day can't wait till May for all day meeting bit more relaxation.
Nice Photos Simon.

Indeed great day.

Got a few work parties to do to help with getting sorted a few things etc.

First one is next Saturday.

[simoncrabb]

4 and a final would be fine. 5 and a final is fine too, if I had my arse in gear! I don't have a problem missing a race or two, better that way than sat around waiting for something to happen.

Given the amount of rain we had I was very impressed with the turnout, great racing! I even enjoyed cleaning the car!

Oil, hmm, ended up with 400 front and 250 rear. It wasn't right though, I'd have lower on the front, maybe 300, and I'd go with less pack, perhaps 3 hole pistons instead of the 2 hole that were in. A great learning experience today!

[mikeyscott]

Got a good reliable core of racers ;)

I found my rear too hard I think. Would drop to 37.5 / 27.5 on 3 hole pistons. Got 40 / 30 in at the mo. Next time big bores I hope :)

it's a good challenging track

would like to do 10 minutes between rounds. Will try and set the computer to this next time.

[mikeyscott]

Simon,

What table is that in your blog photos?

Cheers,

Mike

[simoncrabb]

Table?

Had it years, it's something like this:

http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Search?&searchTerms=3404892

[mikeyscott]

Table?

Had it years, it's something like this:

http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Search?&searchTerms=3404892

Cool, not badly priced.. Mmmm food for thought for EPR next weekend.

[simoncrabb]

I'm a bit scared of those 8 minute finals now, my motor melted at about 6 minutes.

http://rclazy.com/2010/04/08/doctor-doctor-i-overheated-an-lrp-x11/

Don't worry though, the motor had died the weekend before, probably during a 10 minute practice run...

[mikeyscott]

We'll only be doing 7 minutes in the future. We're heading into dry season which will mean we'll be busier hopefully!