More prep for Vegas. Spent the night wiring up both cars and getting them ready to run. Unfortunately I found one of the speed controllers (ESC) in the cars failed. These are AC induction speed controllers that use hall sensors in … Continued
Getting all ready for the IIC race in Vegas. I spent a day at the track already pulling apart and rebuilding the two cars, checking everything. Lots of hardware on the way for the race as well. I have some … Continued
Only 4 or 5 more Thursdays I can make it down to race before Vegas. Lots of setup work going on to try and nail down something in the time I’ll be at the track before October! I made some … Continued
Pictures of my first real competitive Nitro RC Car. A Kyosho FW-05RR. After a couple years of bashing around on tracks with cars that never really worked, I made the decision to buy and build up a real proper race … Continued
Some pictures of various tracks I’ve raced at both indoor and outdoor. I’ve raced at a number of additional tracks, but couldn’t find pictures of them. I’ve raced with a ton of very fun people to compete against and race with. … Continued
Second set of photos… My early entry into R/C with HPI cars, and my early non competitive days of R/C My original HPI Nitro RS4 was beat around, and made stupid fast, but never could turn, handle, or run for … Continued
Posting some pics of days gone by in R/C. This album is specifically my time Racing 1/12th scale on road in WI. I’ve played around with R/C since 1995 when I bought my first HPI Nitro RS4. But in 2003 and 4 … Continued
This is one of the new V-Dezign chassis I am running. Someone wanted pics/info of what the chassis under those bodies are, so I’m posting this. Specs: 1/12th scale Pan car chassis. This one in the pic is for a … Continued
Second 1/12th built up. About a week later than I hoped, but I now have a second V-Dezign CRV chassis and electronics (to be installed tomorrow at the track). Going to be nice having 2 cars to do different … Continued
Now to focus back on other stuff.
I am going to throttle back on R/C a bit after an epic April of racing or practicing roughly 5 days of every week for the last month. Going to go back to a more reasonable 1 day or maybe … Continued