THUNDERDROME 2004 – Coburg, Melbourne VIC

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- February 8, 2004 at 12:10 am #10938
  PandaBear
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  Heads up folks.
  
  Its on again this year… on 28th Feb.
  
  If you’ve never seen an RC car go 100km/h++ (true Radar checked speed, no josh) ya don’t want to miss THUNDERDROME 2004!
  
  Place is Coburg velodrome.
  
  Come & watch or better still, come and take part! Bring your RC car – electric & gas, set it up for ultimate top speed. Even if there’s no suitable racing class for you, you can try the Top Gun run – the ultimate no-Rulez dash for glory.
  
  Instructions, directions & Entry Form is right here –> KROMA website (PDF)
  
  Who’s gonna be there??!! :):):)
- February 8, 2004 at 3:49 am #37074
  jamiekulhanek
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  Not me.
- February 8, 2004 at 1:04 pm #37069
  merc-blue
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  grrr if only i had my B4… 🙁 i would kick all u guys whooo yeah
- February 8, 2004 at 10:25 pm #37064
  ph2t
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  yo Panda, you going man? Let’s see if any of the Melbourne crew are interested. If the numbers are there I might come as well..
  
  cheers,
  
  ph2t.
- February 9, 2004 at 6:28 am #37058
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  Yep definitely have chalked it up for an appearance at the least.
  
  Undecided still wether or not to run… maybe I might try wangle an ‘outlaw’ entry into mod. Car/s setup is pretty much spot on and pretty much on par with last year’s pace – saw 70-72km/h this morning.
  
  uA/ph2t:- any ideas of some electronics magic to make a “Top Gun” entry??! Fastest spot speed by the gun takes bragging honours.
  
  Have a TA03 here that’s itching to have a PAIR of hot motors chucked in for a shot at 100km/h.
  
  Nothing planned for next w/e if you care to meetup somewhere & swap notes.
  
  If I had serious dough, this would be it:- 🙂
- February 9, 2004 at 5:18 pm #37052
  jamiekulhanek
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  Why not rig up a few G-Type Estes motors, they have like 7kg of thrust.
- February 9, 2004 at 7:15 pm #37050
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  There was talk about rocket cars in 2003, but none turned up. Pity!
  
  Also for the Top Gear run, they expect you do do a test lap first and the car has to be controllable around the bend too. So need something with 30-40secs of burn time minimum.
- February 9, 2004 at 7:21 pm #37049
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  Hey Jamie – aren’t you coming over for the F1??
  
  You might be able to make it to Thunderdrome… bring that Mini Z along & we’ll clock it for you. 🙂
- February 12, 2004 at 12:53 am #37004
  micro_Amps
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  Sorry Panda I missed this thread.
  (I am just wondering what happens to the car in the second pic, when the cord on the hairdryer gets pulled out)
  Seriously though, I am interested. I have always wondered what kind of speeds a decent brushless powered car could obtain, no doubt there will be one there on the day.
  Are you serious about competing?
  The 28th is a Saturday which makes it tricky for me, but I sure as hell am interested.
  :DuA
- February 13, 2004 at 1:54 pm #36988
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  The 28th is a Saturday which makes it tricky for me, but I sure as hell am interested.
  
  Yep… its a Sat EVENING too, so we’ll have to skip the boozing. :dead:
  
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  (I am just wondering what happens to the car in the second pic, when the cord on the hairdryer gets pulled out)
  
  Dunno, get a longer extension? :p
  
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  Seriously though, I am interested. I have always wondered what kind of speeds a decent brushless powered car could obtain, no doubt there will be one there on the day.
  
  Brushless is about on par with what the best brushed 540-sized motors
  can do today, so its not anything eyeopening. The main benefit is
  that BL usually runs bit cooler and needs a lot less (barely any)
  maintenance – ie its performance does not drop away after 2 runs.
  
  Saw a peak of 72km/h last Sunday, but someone else has already
  reported 74km/h just running a brushed motor. (these are the race
  cars btw, need to run nonstop for 4 mins = ~16-20 laps not just 1)
  No doubt there’ll be others going quicker again.
  
  Hey, if you guys like we can get together and swap notes before the day! :smiley16: Either weekend is good, drop me a line.
- February 17, 2004 at 9:39 pm #36861
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  I’ll be there to defend my velodrome mod title this year!
  
  I managed to get my poor little Evo 3 to 75km/h last year with some conservative gearing, hoping to do more (damage) this year 🙂
- February 17, 2004 at 9:51 pm #36862
  Aaron
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  Is this where I suggest a very much lightened RWD M-01 chassis?
  
  That’s gotta be one of the lightest and most ‘basic drive trains … maybe some extended arms to giove a wider track and a little more length? *ponders*
  
  A.
  
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- February 17, 2004 at 10:04 pm #36860
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  Is this where I suggest a very much lightened RWD M-01 chassis?
  
  That’s gotta be one of the lightest and most ‘basic drive trains … maybe some extended arms to giove a wider track and a little more length? *ponders*
  
  Still nowhere as ‘basic’ as a Direct-Drive Formula-1 or Pro10 pan car.
  Motor pinion straight to spur on axle! 😀
- February 17, 2004 at 10:07 pm #36863
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  Welcome over, Itchy!
  
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  I’ll be there to defend my velodrome mod title this year!
  
  I managed to get my poor little Evo 3 to 75km/h last year with some conservative gearing, hoping to do more (damage) this year 🙂
  
  And the ghost of that very same Evo3 is still haunting the ‘drome, hahaha…! :smiley16:
- February 17, 2004 at 10:25 pm #36859
  merc-blue
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  i recon one of the top line tourer with a novak brushless and the whole sustetion tweaked and stuff would be a great car. the new assasin or sumthign i recon would be great
- February 17, 2004 at 11:36 pm #36858
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  Just thought I’d drop by and see what the fuss is all about 🙂
  
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  Welcome over, Itchy!
  
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  I’ll be there to defend my velodrome mod title this year!
  
  I managed to get my poor little Evo 3 to 75km/h last year with some conservative gearing, hoping to do more (damage) this year 🙂
  
  And the ghost of that very same Evo3 is still haunting the ‘drome, hahaha…! :smiley16:
- March 2, 2004 at 10:44 pm #36450
  PandaBear
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  Cameras and speed radars… yep, it can only be Melbourne. 👿
- March 3, 2004 at 4:25 am #36435
  jamiekulhanek
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  Hey Jamie – aren’t you coming over for the F1??
  
  You might be able to make it to Thunderdrome… bring that Mini Z along & we’ll clock it for you. 🙂
  
  I would have loved the thunderdrome day, just my cuppa tea, anything with wheels and a motor of some sort does it for me.
  
  I feel like an idiot now, i an going to make sure i go to the F1 next year, But this weekend ill be watching it from home :dead:. Are you going?
  
  However, I am coming over to melbourne with a friend in 1 month, so Zed will be there for a fang 🙂
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