Some specs!

Ok so I haven't blogged in a little while, well not properly at least.
I was bored this morning so I decided to get the scales out on the car. Having just recently fitted the Nosram Comet HD ESC, and a Thunder Power motor, I was wondering what the weights of the car were.

Here are the figures. Taken with pocket scales that are used to weigh gold, diamonds etc, going down to 1 decimal place.

Shell - 87.1
Front - 581.8
Rear - 645.5
Car minus shell - 1227.3

Car inc shell - 1314.4

All weight in grams. Our limit here is 1350g so as you can see it comes in well under.
The equipment used was.
Nosram Comet HD ESC
Sanwa RX
Savox low pro servo
Thunder power motor
3 fans! (1 ESC, 2 motor)
Protoform speed 6 LW shell
Sorex 32r (jb blue insert)

As usual with cars, the rear is heavier than the front, due to motor positioning. But there's plenty of space at the front if the car for the 35g of lead needed so that will bring the front weight up a little to bring the dist closer to 50/50,

Considering that the car has no weight saving items on the car, such as TI screws or turnbuckles, I'm quite impressed how light it is.

Just a couple

Here's a couple of pictures with updated electronics and a training bodyshell on

Elecs in!

So we've had an unboxing blog, a build blog and now we have a finished blog, all the elecs went in today, there's tonnes of room for even the biggest equipment :)

Here's some pics. I just need to sort a couple of bodies out before testing can begin

Ciao

Build

In no particular order

It's here!

EWS

So after a pretty OK rug racers, this weekend saw the first round of EWS series, I was doing this having been unable to go to ETS.
It's based down in Essex, and features a large track, even a little bigger than that of Carpet Wars back in its hay day...
The meeting itself was very well run, no major hick ups at all. And the track was brilliant. Fast, flowing, corners placed away from the tape lines.... Perfect.

The rostrum is situated on a viewing balcony, and is the perfect height in my opinion.

The format for the meeting was 1 practise in heat, then 5 qualifying rounds done to the round by round format then 1 final each.
I have my views on this but not everybody likes constructive criticism....

My meeting didn't really go that great.
Car was good right from the start, but simply didn't have enough horse, similar situation to last weekend but at least doubled due to the higher traction compared to rug racers.
I ended up just scraping the B final, which was well below expectations but simply too many messy rounds and with round by round being used. After 3 bad runs your day is over.
The final was somewhat better, starting 9th on the grid, got up to 4th places on the first lap promptly before being punted off back to 8/9th again, had a clean rest of the final and ended up back in 4th overall for it.
My lap times didn't get any better or worse throughout Qual or the finals because I think I was motor limited.
Could run the fast pace for the first 4-5 laps with the timing advanced but then would fall back heavily at the end when the motor went off due to heat.
Kind of frustrating tbh.

The weekend wasn't a total bust though. Went shopping with penny at Lakeside and then to ikea on Saturday before heading to the hotel for sat night before the race.
It was penny's first time coming along to watch and didn't seem too bored which can only be a good sign!

Not really a great deal else to say in this blog, although the next couple of entries will likely be car builds!

Ciao!

Return!

So, this was the "big" return. Round 1 of 2012/13 Sweep Rug Racers series.

It's a venue that in the past I've had a good amount of success, making every A main that I've been there for in the various classes. It's also run by a great group of guys too, can't fault them in the slightest!

The weekend was the first time behind the sticks since BRCA winter nats in January, so I was a little apprehensive and nervous not to make a tit of myself to say the least!

Sunday morning rolled around far too quickly, up at 4:30am with only a couple of hours sleep after Penny coming home from the o2 in London for Micheal Macyntire show at 1am.
So it was quite a burry eyed version of me that arrived at the Woodson park venue at 7:15am

Everything was set up and ready to go for practise. Had my trusty pitman Carter with me with helped alot! (throughout the event pointing out how slow my car was) haha.

The format to the day was 1x 4min in heat practise. Followed by 4x qualifiers based on FTD. And 2x finals.
FTD seems to suit me well as I hate stringing several runs together lol.

I ended up 7th overall in the fairly competitive 13.5boosted class.
I was only about 5 seconds off TQ which on an 12 second lap, and a 9 month break I'm more than happy with... I didnt even have a clean run.
But did end up with the fastest lap of qualifying.

First final was ok, caught up in first couple of laps rough housing... No change there, then settled into a rythm for the rest of the final and made it back to 4th.
2nd final, again same sort of problem as first, but this time more mistakes on my behalf, and finished up 6th.
Overall it put me 5th for the meeting which I'm very happy with, Alot was learnt. And I got a chance to run that lovely new Sanwa radio... It really is the dogs £@&)@(@"*

Leg 1 of the A main 13.5 I'm the 7th starting car (white and orange)

http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=plpp&v=SBTXvI39h9A

Leg 2

http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=plpp&v=hPsj-h2E_Z8