11/27/10

Lil' Dover SC

My step-son Tom went with me to race off road for the first time. He has ran off road RC's before, just in the yard or driveway never on a race track! He did well 4th in 2wd Ele truck, he got to watch me TQ and finish 1st in that class.

Richard and I were fender to fender for about 4 minutes in the Open Ele SC class for 1st, then the motor pinion on my car let loose. Still had enough laps to finish 6th out of 9 cars.

As the starter called "GO" in Nitro SC, I pulled the trigger and my SC-GT2 took off, literally it took off, the battery pack died and the throttle stuck wide OPEN!!!!!!!!!!!! A fellow racer grabed it and shut the motor down!!! Still got a 5th :-) out of five cars!!!

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11/20/10

GREAT day of pit work!!!! Bearing went in the left rear hub of the SC-GT2. Seems I've forgotten how to tune a nitro engine, turned the high and low speed screws every way but into the trash can!!! Still finished 4th in Open SC class.

Rebuilt 13.5 motor in the SC10 choose to NOT get along with the Novak esc, so in went a different motor. Hope the new bearings come in soon for the LRP 13.5 motor (my favorite motor for the SC10). At the seven minute mark of the ten minute main the Deans connector came UN-soldered from the lipo so I was done!!! The Novak 6.5 Light motor smells like it's history!!! BUT :-) had enough laps in to finish 4th!

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New picture of Lil' Dover SC track




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11/13/10

Had one of those DUMB day's!!!

Thought the trans (idler gear) striped, changed trans from the T4 into the SC10. Got everything button up as the call for everyone to check in for the first qual!!! Put the SC10 on the track and NO go!!! Checked the trans, as the first qual started, everything looked good!!! Then I saw the spur was toothless!!! The problem the whole time!!! :-(

Got on the track, finished with 5 laps. That was enough to know the setup changes wheren't working.

Lap 2 in the main I ripped the end off of the left CVD, no drive so I marshaled the rest of the race.

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SC-GT2 was sweet had the lead as we came out of the last turn on lap one when three 4wd SC's jumped me, by the time the marshal had cleared the pileup I was last!!!! :-(

Was able to drive my way back through the pack for a 4th.

Put a AE 15 engine in place of the OS 12, thinking a RTR motoer would be a better fit to the SC track. Could not get it tuned corrctly, run great for about five laps then would bog, so I'm putting the OS back in!

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11/6/10

Lil' Dover Short Course

First race after losing my best friend!! Dedicated the race to Dad!!

It's been a LLOOONNNGGGG time, that I raced JUST FOR FUN!!!

Bob did a redesign of the left end, adding 50 foot to the run line.



I didn't TQ, BUT by turn one in the ten minute main I was in first and finished that way!!!

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10/30/10

Did not race this weekend.

10/26/10 at 5pm my best friend passed to heaven.



Missing you Dad!!!!

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