Road trip to IERC

I managed to talk my friends into racing up north at IERC this week. I really wanted to spend the race bucks I won my last trip there.  I raced in intermediate stock buggy. 

I blew out in r1 crashing several times. 

In r2 I got myself back together and put in a run good enough to qualify 3rd. 

In the main I crashed a few times and fell back early in the race. But I calmed down and drove clean in the closing laps. Everyone else started crashing and I passed them and managed to finish 2nd. I could've raced in the expert main but they allowed zero time to get ready so I decided to just skip the race.  

I also got my new resistor bank to allow me to be able to discharge batteries up to 40A!  It works really well!

T5m is here!

My T5m was delivered yesterday!

I've also been slowly collecting electronics and parts to use with my new mid motor truck!

For electronics I picked up a Tekin RSX speed controller, Futaba R304SBE receiver, and Futaba S9352HV servo. 

I also picked up some aluminum rear hexes, JConcepts Finnisher titanium turnbuckles, and Avid shock mounts with Schelle bushings.

At some point I also want to pick up a JC Finnisher body.

New tire and motor testing

We headed over to SDRC  for some Saturday club racing. I needed to break in some tires and test my new MurfDogg 17.5 motor. 

The tires were Proline Electrons in MC compound. I've been saucing them with Liquid Wrench all week.  They actually  had good grip right away!  No break in needed!

I was also trying out the 2014 spec of the MurfDogg 17.5. It felt down on power at 1st so I geared up 2 teeth.  It was faster but faded toward the end of my practice run to the point where I couldn't make the triple!  The motor temp was only 150F but lost a lot of punch. Maybe I'll check the rotor diameter and try it again later. 

Time for racing!  Heads up qualifying was the program for tonight, meaning you needed to race your way in!  You needed to finish 1st or 2nd in your heat to transfer directly to the A.  If in round 2 the 1st or 2nd place cars were already in the main, the next 2 cars would transfer in. Thus, the top 8 in the A were made up of people that placed 1st or 2nd or placed behind someone who already transferred. I was able to win both my heats and transfer to the A. I would end up qualifying in 3rd. 

I had a good start moving up to 2nd within the 1st minute. But I shorted the last double before the straight and dropped to 4th. In the closing laps the 3rd place car tangled with traffic and I moved up to 3rd where I finished. 

RC10T5M!

I was able to grab a T5M while they were in stock for a short time at Tower Hobbies!

Dry Track Main :(

We headed out for another weekend of Saturday club racing at SDRC. This time the track was nice and damp as I was In heat 2.  We did heads up starts though and I was screwed both rounds and had to start mid pack. I finished 3rd in round 1 and 2nd in round 2, but the winner had already won a heat, so myself and 3rd place got the automatic transfer into the A Main. My time was also fast enough to qualify 2nd.

For the mains they only blew off the track and put down a light mist. This combined with a later heat for my main, race 5 instead of 2, I ended up on a dry track again. I knew this ahead of time so I made a change to my rear link hoping that it would give me more side bite on the drier track. It didn't. I spun out in the first turn and dropped to last. I recovered to finish 6th, but really should've been in the top 3.

  

During racing I picked up a set of Proline MC Electrons, which is supposed to be the hot tire on a dry track. I tried a set after racing and my car felt pretty good!  I guess I'll mounting these up for racing on a dry track.