Attention On Road Racers !!!!!!

Ill be there for the T4T race. Probably gonna race electric EX and race a few heat races with my nitro.

Will be there for the duration of the Offroad T4T race and hopefully all of the Onroad T4T race. Should be a great time racing and with friends! Hopefully that new avitar is Hectors 8th scale Nitro, can't wait to see one run in person, they are just sick in the online videos I have seen!

nmdesertracer wrote:

We never got the second email from hals saying if the race was on or not. Me and john would have come. hector give me your cell number dangit this is a crying shame.. Hector you getting a Nitro sedan?

Lol ... Robert Call me at 915-539-6967 for any Racing info... Bring john with you for the toys 4 tots..

Going to give onroad a try for my first time today. Been itching to get out all week. Just wanted to thank Dave for getting my
back on parts and Jonathan for pulling out the stuck bolt in my car

Had a blast today even though I was wrenching on that dang TC3 more than I was driving it. Got a Video of todays heat race going up on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/user/NMdesertracer?feature=mhw4

It was fun! I'm glad Hector had a spare ESC so I could finally figure out what the heck was the speed issue with my car. It kinda hurt the pocket book all new batteries, motor, and of course it was the last thing.. the ESC.

Had a blast today! Thanks Hector for helping me get going and Dave for bring the arms I needed after smashing into the back wall. 6900kv in a little car is faster than I thought. That TC3 looked fast to me. Hope you guys can get the bugs out.

Great racing yesterday at Hal's new Onroad Course layout! It was great to see several new racers, everyone was showing some great speeds and exceptional driving, making for some fantastic competittion throughout the day!

Got a few questions!

Foam vs Rubber tire lifespan? Foam is the way to go at the track.

If I went with foams do i need a tire truer? probably yes

Would OFNA's manual tire truer be good enough. Really dont want to spend a lot on a automatic truer.

What sauce and shore # are you running?

Hector and Danny, would be able to provide better insight on foam use. but last You'll lose about 1mm of foam during a 5 minute race. After discussing with Hector and trying some, the 35 Shore (26mm Front and 30mm Rear tire widths) offer tremendous on track performance gains over rubber tires. When using rubber tires during approriate temps, can get 1.5 hrs run time on 28R's and nearly 2 hrs on 32R's.

How about a rubber 10.5 and foams 10.5 more run time.

Thanks Hector! After further thought I think ill stick with rubber.

Yes, rubber tires make things very easy when it comes down to it and maintenance is a breeze. The performance is great and pretty competitive with all the cars racing. Rotating your tires after each run realy extends the tires lifespan and as Hector said you can enjoy the racing and atmosphere. The 28R's work great when temps are in the 50 degree range and 32R's hook up well above that temp.

I think we should have stuck with rubbers like we first started with

Dave, its not too late !!! lets put it to a Vote next Race ... I will run whatever the Club Decides... Im all for it!!!.. Cost was the issue to some racers thats why the change was made... Next race starts the Point Series !!!

yeah, but in the long run I think cost is same or close no? Especially with the maintenance.... I think you can find good deals on GOOD rubber to make it worth while. I'm on my 3rd race on 28s... That's $10 a race and with the race only costing $5...

I am good for either tires, my vote would be to cater to whatever the majority of racers would like to run and grow Onroad participation the best we can. The cost for rubber tires is high though, but usage time is good (probably evening out overall cost). Still attempting to work some angles to obtain them at a much lesser price.

I've got 10 sets of SOREX 36Rs for the spring/summer coming for $32. That's $10 off anywhere you can find em... Some packs are even the OLD really good rubber And I'm always looking for more.

Maybe if we can all agree to run sorex, somebody can email them to be the official tire of the Onroad series for Hals. That way sorex can hook us up with a discount.

+1

I think John can get a discount on tires. Im running sorex 32 on all the races still on the same set of used tires John sold me.. So thats 4 races with me and 1 with my son on the used tires. I guess race the TC till the foams pop out..

Sorex were costing me 48 shippdd through amain. I can get foams for 22 shipped. I get about same runtime on either. If I can keep getting rubber for ~ 30 I wouldnt mind switching back. But almost 50 a set there is no comparison price wise.

Any one want to do a SC4x4 class?