Preparing for a race – what do I do?

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    • #10538
      DaveF
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      Ok, time for all the experienced racers to tell us what they do to prepare for a race. I’m talking about the cars by the way, not preparing mentally, or listening to “Jesus build my hotrod” :8ball:.

      What do you do to your bit in the last 15 minutes before a race, or even the night before, and how much difference do you think it makes? How do get your battery or motor ready to run faster longer, etc.

      I’m asking because I have a race at 1pm today (2 hours away). 👿


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      Edited by – DaveF on 22 January 2003 10:59:46

    • #42801
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      is it your track that you guys are racing on? if not, look for bumps to avoid, slippery surfaces, make sure no foreign substances on your tires!
      i used graphite powder on my gears once, and this got on my tires, didnt clean them off. boy did i have a fun race with my mates!

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    • #42798
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      Yeah, it’s a race on my track. 😀


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    • #42792
      Cranga
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      cool, do you know what your oppositions cars are like?

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    • #42789
      DaveF
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      They’ll all be 1.0 motors. All Char-Gs. All with standard setups out of the box pretty much.


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    • #42779
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      i would just cycle my car once or twice and have some test laps, find the lines and perfect postions for cornering

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    • #42782
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      The lines I’m pretty ok with now (my track), but last night I had a test spin with a mate and the cars were really sluggish to start with, and the charge lasted 2 laps. After a few races they lasted longer, but one car was still erraticly sluggish.

      I just want to make sure that when I put my car down for the 1st race that it will be performing at it’s best. Full charge, motor running freely, etc.


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    • #42772
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      you should cycle your car first to warm up the motor, i find the car performs a bit better and you could also double charge, wink wink nudge nudge

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    • #42744
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      you could switch the coloured ends of a motor so yours go faster??

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    • #42738
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      Quote:
      you could switch the coloured ends of a motor so yours go faster??

      After seeing the vids of DaveF’s track I think that a faster motor would actually be more of a hinderance, especially in the technical parts of the course….


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      Edited by – Crom on 22 January 2003 14:51:28

    • #42723
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      Yeah. 2.2 motors are over the top on that track. The top you could use might be a 1.6. A 3.0 in the booster car un-boosted is ok, but very hard, so that’s about a 1.5 sort of speed.


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    • #42710
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      well dave did you win ?? Id go a double charge, warm the motor by running it on the charger on the first charger, and listen to some fast and the furious music 😀

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    • #42695
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      try double charging for abit of extra punch…:smiley2:

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    • #42696
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      I find takin it apart and leavin the motor in and running it warms the motor up real good.

      LUKE:evil:

    • #42521
      Mondo
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      well, I think Dave might have got wiped out, of existance maybe:D

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    • #42502
      Shypo
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      i’d definetly use my bus on Dave’s course cos it whipped GT-ahh yes i know u remeber GT-ahh and i reckon it could take some ppl to school…..

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    • #42200
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      I only ended up competing in 1 race. To make it fair on others I decided that to be elligible to win you had to compete in more than 1 race.

      I used a points system, then divided the points earned by the number of races run to come out with an average score.

      1st – 5 points
      2nd – 3 points
      3rd – 2 points
      4th – 1 point

      The idea of the points system being that two 2nds are worth more than one 1st, etc.

      The winner was Chuggy in his Silver Supra. When awarded the trophy he held it up over his head. It went really well. He’ll have to make the trophy for IMBGP2.


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    • #42152
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      yeh go the supra !! 😀 sounds like great fun dave

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    • #42141
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      It was pretty cool, yeah. A bunch of guys that looked like my kids on Xmas morning. hahahahaa. We had fun.

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    • #42097
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      i can imagine it, all these guys hunkered around a gleaming track watchintg there precious BCG’s whizz around, each man vying for glory

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    • #42080
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      Don’t the ZipZap upgrades to Fast and Furious sel;l for about $11 US? There’s one F&F set in there that’s going for $50+ US. Madness.

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    • #42081
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      Why did my reply to the ZipZap rims discussion end up in here? Something funny is going on.

      Uh, just incase this reply ends up in the right place… The GP was fun. I won the race I went in by the way. We had about 15 people through the room on the day. I’ve got some footage, but Most of it is stills, and the editted movie is about 12Mb

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    • #42072
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      Have you uploaded the movie? Wanna see wanna see!:D


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    • #42069
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      Nah, I don’t have anywhere to store the movie on the web. To be honest it’s pretty dull. Mostly stills of the guys standing looking at their cars on the track (in race). very little actual moving footage, and 11 seconds worth. Not worth it for a 12m file.

      I might try and just trim it to the 10-15 seconds of race footage if I get time next week. See if I can get it down in size.

      Also, most peopl were unexperienced drivers, so there’s a lot of barrier scraping going on. Didn’t get to have the 4 top drivers in one race – ran out of lunch hour. Maybe next time (once I do up my BCG some more too).

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    • #42030
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      whats wrong with barrier scraping:D:D

      yeah i noticed how expensive some stuff is

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    • #41957
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      double charge,cycle, check gears and axles for fluff build up( and clear the fluff with fine tweezers and a razor), i use high speed lube(skateboard) on my front axles and susp. parts.
      mini-vacuum the track.

    • #41959
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      The skateboard lube I’ve been thinking about for a while now. i wonder if sewing machine oil is a similar viscosity? mind you, the Skate board stuff is less of a dust colector I think.

      I’ve learned that plastic tweesers might be best too, for when you’re fiddling with your steering spring. 😀

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    • #41930
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      buy some world industries skate oil… “to keep your stick slippery”
      look for that slogan or soemthing like it cos i used to use that on my skateboard and it made my board crazy fast, ima track down some more and i’ll give u sum results soon

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    • #43706
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      nah dave, those metal tweezers are your steering springs best freind. get a lighter heat them up and melt the plastic that holds the coil in place a little bit so that it will never fly away again.

      shypo im pretty crap with internet skills but if you want da phat avatar of wet willy pimp style go check out the world industries website.
      my tracks got world industries sponser logos i got from the site. my rep points better go up for this one, the tech deck stickers are awesome too,just the world and darkstar ones. if only someone would put my pics on their site.

    • #41771
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      i may see what i can find, im used to my avatar so it means evry1 knows it, how could u miss it-its evrywhere on the forums!!

      i may need to find a new one

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    • #41752
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      The problem I had with the metal tweezers was trying to get dust off the steering coil just next to the magnet. I didn’t lose the spring, but I had to put the magnet back on the steering knuckles again. I just wasn’t thinking. Tweesers are good, but I think I’ll get me some plastic ones for the Bit tool kit.

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    • #41743
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      i snapped a pecie of plastic off a old model and use that to attach things otherwise evrything gets a bit to hard

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      it takes a while to scan thru em all shypo but its worth it

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      yeah theres like 100000 of them, ah i see it, i used to have that as a sticker on my old deck. that is a cool pick, check out my profile pic. thats a Pimpin pic:smiley16:

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    • #41737
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      wheres da gold? or da phat rocks. man you probally gave the rocks away….. all for da nookie ‘ite… yeah i know ’bout that.. i had so many bitches, but they were so fine they took (almost) all my ritches.
      your avatars got a kewl hat but no Boppin’ stick.

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      that sounds like its from jenny from the block, well the first line

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    • #41713
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      jenny who?

    • #41701
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      j lo’s new song lol

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    • #41681
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      how low?

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      i had the Boppin stick at my formal last year. i was tappin asses left right and centre:D:D

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    • #40777
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      hope you were talkin ho’s

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      I dont need anymore of dem, i gots dem coming out my ears LOL

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    • #40570
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      igotmoregoldanu! how did i do that?

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      i am not sure how the gold works to be honest and im not sure about rep points either yet.
      i got gold after looking thru the tech section of this site

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    • #40516
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      i got lots of gold…

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    • #40511
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      yeah, but how?

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    • #43626
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      i have a feeling its how many hits u get at ur website from ur signature cos u 2 are the only ones with links in ur sigs and u both hav massive gold

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    • #40503
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      Could be, but I think I got mine in one big batch, not a steady trickle. one day I had about 100, then a few days later had over 1000, and it hasn’t changed much since.

      Where’s Admin when you need him?

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    • #43622
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      lol, i know how but i dont wanna spoil your fun..

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    • #43767
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      Yeah, sure.

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