Tekin 203 WOW

I just tried the new 203 and all I can say is WOW. (more to come)

nice way to do it! increasing RPM/timing.

same darkside looking interface, always a dark horse!

Look what I found under the Tree!

a Mint condition THE Ungar UTC-300! Look at that fresh sponge!!!

Multi class racing here I come!

Going to RCM this Sunday

Finally I will get to race my be loving Type-R.

I will try a new Tekin software, ALL NEW Sweep tires, and all new carpet set up for my chassis.

RCMadness track at Conneticut

There track is finally done indoor looking great, we have a lots of snow today and RCM don't have the heat either so we might trying to make it up there next week.

that's a day after the Christmas!! Horay!

But the question is when does NYC hobby going to open there new track!

MAN, I'M DYING TO GO TO TC RACE!

NO TC RACE FOR 2MOTH DRIVE JOHNY CRAZY!!!

I must gone mad for sure! that pinion looks bigger than that Spur gear!

Barry VS Paulie Last weekend at WCRCR

Baker passed Lemieux on outside.........

Awesome WCRCR Track at SOCAL

Excellent filming, editing oh yes! Metallica rule!

Spring etching

Can someone do this for us?

I know next best thing is dremel notches on a spring coils, 10.5=1, 12.5=2notches...

Those rating stickers comes off every time you need them, YUK!

Rear camber rod mod

I saw few ppl asking waht is most HD ball cup is cause their rear ball cups keep popping, cause rear camber rod is tilted backwards by default if you hit somethin by rear wheel ( ex: chicanes) ball cup does pop and your done for that heat!

and replacing this with other brand is hack! or even a old closed cap style Losi ball cups is not an good idea you will need to pop em out every time you working on it, that will makes your car sloppy and ugly!

That will makes your car look like this!!!

please ppl you can stop right there!!!

Don't do this to your beautiful type-R please.

I did manage prevent this by using a small flathead screws and also replace mounting round head screws with short one as I post it here but problem is I can't insert open-end wrench between the ball cups and rear shock tower.

and here is what I did.

I put a longer flat head screw from front and locked it with a lock nut from the back.

there you have it folks, please keep your type-R beautiful.

RCMadness start building a track

I'm so glad to write RCMadness who has been in this business for long time at CT finally start building a carpet track in their newly moved premises

In my guess Dec/20/2009 should be our targeted date to make first trip, finally I can start race my type-R again!!!

2WD TC to save the class?

From my Experience with an 1/10th off road class, a 2WD chassis can be more popular than current 4WD chassis in TC, this might bring more people back to this hobby for following reasons.

1: Lower chassis cost/ IMO a kit around $200 is possible

2: Less wear/economical running cost

3: Less damaged on a crash/ lots of ppl went to 1/8th off road cuz car don't break after a reasonable crash.

4: compare to smaller scale cars more room for electrics / I don't mean to say anything bad about mini-z or cup racing cars but to me they are too sensitive to set up change or too compact for human's finger size

5: Roomy layout don't need a low profile servo, Micro RX or and micro ESC

6: limited over all traction requires only a controllable horse power.

7: last but not least/ get rid of body rules. people love to race their dream cars than a Mazda 6. just like an RCGT rules lets drive some fancy cars!

what do you think?

I started racing with 1/10th off road 2WD and always enjoyed 4WD every chance I had, but almost every one quit running 4WD offroad so soon beacuase of opposite of above reasons, 1/10th electric 4WD off road was never a popular class and lots of ppl thought if the AE built one they will come but that didn't happened, also we all noticed 1/10th gas TC race getting smaller every season but 1/10th off road 2WD been popular till today.

with very sophisticated suspension logics and tires/chemicals available today I do believe we will have enough traction in any surface that we been run with 2WD tranny.

actually that remind me I drove my novice buddy's car fine around a track when he asked me to drive cuz car felt weired, I found a problem for him, his car lost a spool and had only rear wheel drive in that run.

there is lots of opinions on the web about how we can rejuvenate this once was popular class .

ppl talking about eliminated few class , such as killing the 13.5, entire foam or they even talking about folding the Mod class!

or there is idea about going to 1 cell on all sedan to replaced all our recently purchased 2cell Lipo!

to me that don't make much sense at all

so in my opinion this class can attract more racers and live longer with 2WD chassis.

My guess for Black Diamond by Advanced Electronics

My guess for this ESC algorithm is this ESC monitor how much amps draw and see if amps draw increased or decreased on throttle position.

when throttle getting pumped or at high position and amps draw dropping than it increase timing.

like when you drive a 1:1 scale car, when RPM gets steady you will changed to next gear.

current Tekin software increased Timing (RPM) after set delay and that only works if you hitting same line every time coming in to straightway.

but with amps sensing, as soon as top speed is reached with fixed timing (1st gear) it kicks in with higher timing right away to reach faster speed sooner.