Back on line!

finished moving, cable is on! still need to finished few things at home.

I'm going to try to race at da beach track this Sunday for their final race of the year.

Join us!

Moving

Moving to other side of the NYC, Queens. busy packing

I'm moving so closed to the mini z track (http://www.nyrcsuperraceway.com/) I can just walk to the track!

I will try to balance my time between Mini-Z and touring this winter.

Andy Moore's 2006 IFMAR

In case if you wonder who da Andy moore is from a video below

BTW IMO Andy won the Championship, The Masami won people's heart...

oh! and poor Paulie.

He doesnt even have a girl friend

Diff Ring Truer

a Japanese company called multiverse.jp just released this quality tool.

as you can see by adjusting those 3 screws let you do all different rings,

each circle with a bearing pen will create ring rotate 6times to have evenly shaved rings quicker.

Felt cold, stayed home all day.

can't go racing Sunday, can't do nothing! this sux! take care of yourself everyone!

Lucas won it again! with the Type-R

The 2009 French Cup was held in Bordeaux, France won by Lucas urbain ! with the Type-R! Congrats Lucas!

My Novak ballistic motor just arrived

I saw one of fastest local driver switch to the Novak and went BALLISTIC by lapped every one.

only thing that concerned me was wire tab bent in wrong direction and sensor wire directing to the center pulley

Instead of bending the tabs straight I dremeled out left only a mm on bent parts to clear from the rear bulk head.

those tabs are made from VERY thick copper and trying to bend that tab should be very hard and won't come out neat, I already saw some one did it, it ain't pretty, dremeling also left me little bit of bent shape tabs for easy soldering

then I modified my home made wire guide slight a bit to guide wires out little bit too, with other motors sensor wire sit between alum column and the guide.

now My Novak motor perfectly fits on my type-r what a beautiful sight this is!

Going to Jackson, NJ this Sunday

Club racing at it's finest, probably less traffic than summer cuz no Beach traffics.

going to try NOVAK 13.5 Ballistic motor before the Regional

I also wanted to practice staying focused for whole 6min 30sec, lately I focus for an 1/2 min staying wake then driving under all blur to crash or bobble to wake up for next 30 seconds again

I remember staying focused for whole 4min 30sec back then when I had more hairs and 50Lbs skinnier Ialso remember every detail what went around me after each race but these days I don't even remember who I hit till some one giving me Long face.

I still have to get used to my TEKIN RS ESC but my Lap top crapped out again and I don't know what to do with my Tekin RS, my T60 thinkpad giving me 3 beeps on Bios, no screen, no booting and stays dark until I hit the Power button and it goes off.

I'm kinda sick with the cold too but

I can almost hear ppl screaming on the fence goes

YOU can do it Johney PUNCH IT! but Smooth~

Best transponder holder on Losi EVER!

Remember House transponder? each track had them, they also had a hole punch or a Drill with a 1/8th" drill bit by the computer booth to make a ugly hole on our beautiful Lexan body

but some of us, RC gigs had to have a custom AMB holder Low & centered, neatly done for best handling, Pro-Loooking chassis, Like this guy

puhahahah, I found this car from old thread of rctech.net and I think I also remember the owner of this car as well

remember him?

Setup sheet from last weekend @ da beach track, SI, NY

Man that track is da bomb!

I should tried mid roll center but had no time to flickering with washers, also I should have narrow hexes on front and med on rear but car ran good all day regardless.

1 crash while I was leading A main cost me a 1st place, I had to hit that last corner of chicane of the death and my pal Richard P passed me to win who was TQ, I came in 2nd.

between my guys we end up with a TQ, 1st, 2nd place of the main and FASTEST LAP of the day!

Oh! also a BQ and B main 1st place by my boy Young! in Mini class.

Do not send money by Paypal personal payment

I found this great thread on the RCtech.net click to view as picture show above, everything you buy from the web should be Marked as Purchase tab > goods

if any one ask you to send money by "Personal tab" cuz no fees they saying.

don't do it! because "THEY CANNOT BE DISPUTED" that personal tab is for personal transfers and they don't take any fees out. so if you wanted to loan your bother money(for example) its free on both ends.

I bought/sold many stuffs on-line and I been burned few times too.

I thought this is something we all can related.

Bump steer on JRXS Type-R

I been running 2 gold washers under each Bellcranks since very beginning, to adjust the bump steer on the fly with following amount of washers under each ball stud of the steering hub.

• Low roll center: 2 washers
• Med roll center(low block with a 1 gold washer): 1 washer
• High roll center: no washer.

in my measurement on a hudy set up board with total of 4deg Castor, the machine is in neutral bump steer (0") with those set up.

the image showing Low roll center set up as I ran last week.

add: this mod also eliminated rubbing against upperdeck from ball end on the servo saver.

Flying Fox solid spool mod

I found half stripped out drives on my car since the race from yesterday

I thought it is better to have this spool made look like one way unit so we can use a one way out drive cups which gets to bolt down to mounted instead of snapped on to the tube but few people on RCtech pointed out one way out drive is not any better as shown below.

as many like to say " that's how it is" what can I do...

that's not my way! as usual I made my own to make the things better.

I drilled 4 holes on out drives with a 3/32" bit and screwed 5/40 set screws about 4mm long, this way it triple the contacting surface on the tube against plastic out drives.

One thing that concerned me is like what Mike L from MikeLdesign.com (also a type-R driver) is "there is no fuse, would you rather it be the plastic out drive or your LCD collar?' and I don't want that problem, only thing I can think of is run the front belt loose enough to be skiipped before LCD coupler get damaged.

follow up: since I did this mod, I didnt have any trouble on the spool or out drives yet, I ran 100 + packs with stock, SS, or 10.5 Mod with it, try it you will thanks me later.

Had awesome time at the Beach track in Staten Island, NY

Awesome weather, Great turn out!

I started with a Take off 32, car was okay, then with a set of RP30 Type-R was flying!

the track had a chicanes with no straight away! I limit front droop to 1.2mm and Low roll center all around, everything else usual.

I was only Losi out there with rest of the field filled with many HB Cyclones, TC5, few Xray (of cos!) and Tamiyas

that's my car on da picture leading the way, I qualified 3rd, finished 2nd with a FASTEST single lap time of the day!

some of my local guys did good at 2009iic

Timing and Scoring by www.RCScoringPro.com and www.LiveRC.com
13.5 Rubber Sedan	Round# 5
Top Qualifier is Herbert, Keven 28/5:05.736 (Rnd 4)	Race# 35
Indoor International Championships 2009
Position Driver Name Car # Laps Race Time Fast Lap Behind Qualifier # 1 Herbert, Keven 1 28 5:09.169 10.804 1 2 Hohnstein, Josh 5 27 5:05.200 10.979 5 3 Haynes, Mike 9 27 5:05.636 10.936 0.436 9 4 Knudtson, Kody 6 27 5:06.776 10.819 1.140 6 5 Moore, Andy 4 27 5:07.635 10.864 0.859 4 6 Aveytia, Juan 8 27 5:10.577 10.947 2.942 8 7 Johnson, Brad 3 27 5:11.024 10.873 0.447 3 8 Weiss, Steve 10 26 5:04.165 10.948 9998 9 Ellis, Drew 7 26 5:09.735 10.913 5.570 7 10 Baker, Barry 2 16 3:09.885 10.791 2

iming and Scoring by www.RCScoringPro.com and www.LiveRC.com
17.5 Amateur Sedan	Round# 5
Top Qualifier is Hanulec, Michael 26/5:01.702 (Rnd 4)	Race# 34
Indoor International Championships 2009
Position Driver Name Car # Laps Race Time Fast Lap Behind Qualifier # 1 Hanulec, Michael 1 26 5:06.140 11.305 1 2 Brown, Adam 4 26 5:06.605 11.473 0.465 4 3 Jimenez, Albert 2 26 5:07.397 11.383 0.792 2 4 Miller, Andrew 5 26 5:10.809 11.335 3.412 5 5 Storti, Dennis 8 25 5:02.388 11.291 8 6 Layne, Dustin 9 25 5:05.030 11.622 2.642 9 7 Zorn, David 6 25 5:11.224 11.365 6.194 6 8 Spencer, Darrald 3 25 5:11.425 11.512 0.201 3 9 Klingforth, Brent 10 24 5:00.629 11.438 9998 10 DeForest, Armand 7 1 15.556 7