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OT: Back from "the track" (long, just delete instead of bitching)



Sounds fun - I'm sure you have some static pics though...me wanna see...

Ron

--- C Boyko <roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca> wrote:

> As you know, Boxing day is the traditional Bear race. It's starting to feel
> like real racing. Our competition (my nephew, who has a modded GTI, and my
> brother, a professsional mechanic who does Monster Garage type stuff
> annually for the firefighter's big float competition) came up with a radio
> controlled Civic (their first radio controlled effort, they went with
> rocket powered last year). They visibly whitened when they saw ours,
> modelled after "my future daughter-in-law's" car. This being Melanie
> Simmons, one of Canada's fastest females, she's 22, has an alcohol rail
> that does 7s, and Adam is sure she's his soulmate.
> Our car sported an all aluminum chassis, sponsored by HeliLynx (where my
> son works). (I'm sure it didn't detract from their completion of the
> multiple helicopters they're working on). Alexander Keith provided the wing
> shell, which housed the battery. It was mounted on part of a (previously
> wrecked) Scirocco grille, with some Lexan structural parts. I love Lexan! 
> We were going to attach it with titanium bolts, but we figured that was
> just going overboard. Drivetrain was from a carpet racer, same one we used
> last year, but I got some tire compound that really revived the grab of the
> slicks. Servos and radio stuff was scavenged from my Chris Craft, I really
> want to put it back together at some point, it's too sweet not to use. But
> I digress.
> The bear had been on a diet since last year, he'd shrunk down to the point
> where we were accused of removing his head, that's all you could see of
> him, and he had a cute little helmet and a roll cage to keep him safe.
> Sticker tuning was helpful in adding a few Hp, and the only downside of the
> build was the speed controller, it's a two speed mechanical, and would only
> go fast or super fast. It did good wheelies too.
> Anyway, I set up to take pictures and got nothing when ours shot out of the
> hole, it was just TOO fast. Theirs took easily three times as long to go
> down the track. Sort of like an import ricer against an alcohol rail in
> real life. Ours then proceeded to produce quite a bit of SMOKE!, video
> shows what appears to be a small fire up in the works. Mr Avionics didn't
> use enough cable ties, one of the power cables got tangled in the gears,
> and managed to burn through the main drive gear. So it was a one run
> wonder. But what a run! We've already planned a new car for next year
> anyway. 7 years we've been doing this, with only one loss. We still need to
> find enough adult beverages for a "meeting of the sanctioning body" to cook
> up next year's rules. Ours will most likely go amphibious anyway, so we'll
> be ready for whatever.
> That's the report. 
> Oh, and Santa was good to me, there were tools and go fast parts under the
> tree. Which is always cool!
> Cathy
> 
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