Mod truck podium!

I finally made the podium in mod truck!  I finished 2nd after starting 6th!

During practice I was running at 90% power and broke a caster block, bent another rear axle, and broke a rear a-arm.  So I turned the power back down to 80% for racing. Hahaha!

During qualifying I was running pressure points but I didn't have the grip I wanted and was pushing in the sweeper and 180's. So for the main I switched over to my barcodes and was able to turn my fastest race lap, a 20.5. 

More Truck racing with the T4

I raced mod truck again with my T4. This time I turned the power down to 80% down from 100%?!  I only added drag brake to get more turn is steering and also tried MC Ions and gold pressure points. The Ions produced my fastest lap so far, a 20.3, but the pressure point felt more consistent. 

  

For next weekend I'll try some softer front springs and maybe turn up the power to 90%!

SC10 turnbuckles work on the T5m!

Since my T5m turnbuckles are on back order with no delivery date, I dug out an extra set of SC10/T4 turnbuckles that I had planned to install on my SC10 before I sold it. They are about 2mm too long on each end, but should work fine as long as I don't use the shortest link position possible. 

When my T5m turnbuckles finally show up I'll probably install them and keep this set as spares. 

Weekend of Mod Truck

After killing another SXX speedo, I dropped in an old Sphere TC unit, with a fan, to control the 6.5 motor.  I raced mod truck Friday and Saturday night. 

After a bunch of wrenching to fix various broken parts I found after a few runs, I finished 4th in the A Friday and 7th in the A Saturday. My fastest lap turned on my MC Ions, a 20.9.  I ran the Friday main on gold pressure points and all day Saturday on gold barcodes. Not much difference in my lap times as thu were hovering in the low 21's. I'll need to make some setup changes as I'm losing a lot of time slowing down for the end of the straight to keep from spinning out in the sweeper.

Below are my race results from Friday and Saturday. 

Friday 

 

Saturday

T5m rear end completed!

Tonight I finished the rear hubs with cva's and built the diff and transmission. I might have over done it with the white lithium grease on the tranny gears as it sure doesn't free spin like my buggy trans. But whatever, I'm building this truck for mod!