Archive for October 2009
Team XRAY T3: Coming Soon
I have no real pictures to post, only that few of the top racers here in the area saw the actual car at the nationals in frederick, md.
Hope fully will post pictures as soon as I get my hands on either the car or the pictures.
Tamiya Ferrari F60 Kit: Based on the F104 Pro
Tamiya 416x Touring Car Chassis
Tamiya TA05 Race Test #2
So the effort continues to tame the Ta05 to be able to race competitively in the 17.5 class with experiended drivers and along side high end cars such as the xray, hot bodies etc. I have made several changes since I last wrote, but a summary of them are as follows
- Changed speed control from LRP SXX TC to LRP SPX Competition (better programming for stock motors)
- Changed to 64p gearing so it is possible to gear more accurately
- Added 3Racing trun buckles throughout the car replaced the stock as they are hard to work with
- Changed the suspension oil to 60 wt for front to add more steering, rear is still 45 and using TC5 blue 17lb springs all around
- Gearing is currently at 64p 88 Spur and 47 Pinion with FDR at 4.2
The car has been running very well and it is truely a pleasure to run this plastic chassis, the additional hop-ups have definitly made improvements and I am only focusing on minimizing additions of hop-ups unless I really need them so not much visual changes.
I will be posting more details of setup and pictures soon so stay tuned, as last weekend the front differential arm broke due to added pressure of increase drag brake that I needed. I am currently looking into using a solid front axel instead of a differantial to increase lap times and overall performance for a medium to small size technical track.
Speed Passion 17.5 motor
Something to note about speed passion motors, they are outstanding quality and very high performance. However something to note is that they usually need to be geared very differenlty than other motors to take full advantage of them.
For example Novak 17.5 motor is recommended to be used with 3.5 FDR, speed passion is similar in the sense that the v2 motor like the novak does not have physical timing. So in order to get most of the speed passion motor, i will be testing it with higher FDR in the range of 4.6 -> 5.5 plus with increased timing on the LRP SPX profile 8 to gain maximum torque and top end speed.
More to come….
