Hey guys, how do I sign up for this weekend's race? Go there only sign up is it?

Ok, thanks.

If I have an exposed FRP bumper facing the front but it has sponge at the bottom is it illegal? Because I suspect the front part is hitting the ramp before the bottom sponge hits it.

Don't have my car with me (@ work). here's a quick paintbrush job of the FRP bumper I using (sorry for the shoddy job)

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The blue paint is where my sponge is. Red square is the part hitting the track. Comments?

Kantoi... this track... summore just bought a new hyper >< should have invested in a light instead :/

Brakes! Where to get more brakes? This track is fun but need to get me some brakes. Anyone selling?

Hi guys. Testing a bit only the other night, kinda difficult for me since I have crap brakes and very few dampers to play with. Must get more from David XD then see how to do setting. Btw how much weight are you guys playing with? 2 heavy and 2 light mass damper enuff?

Eh eh that night I saw your car got more ^^

Actually at first I thinking of doing it without damper, then crashing repeatedly taught me otherwise

happy Merdeka to all!

So anyone else doing car without mass damper? With hyper inside? So far I tak jadi...

This post has been edited by iDIOT: Sep 1 2009, 09:02 PM

3.5 Big Ones... Hehe I also have a half dead hyper dash. Should I call it hyper-light?

Will keep trying with a lighter setup (no money to buy more mass damper). But of course the top speed is very limited. On the other hand, do you think a heavier car brakes better due to more normal force applied on the brakes?

Thanks for the reply. I understand the concept of inertia. However, I am postulating that the weight of the car, specifically the rear, should add to its braking capabilities. As always, there is a trade off, and in this case its the momentum of the car. The question here is, which one will override the other? Is there any extra braking at all?

@ Apai
Hehe how much ^^

I will Just need to do more test. But my car coming apart, need to buy more bumper etc.

I'm at work
Going TU later

Tried a variety of setups last night, all light cars with minimal damper. Can handle big humps so so... but the 4-in-a-row small hump, all kantoi, except when battery weak lar

Today try new car (thanks Apai for parts), hopefully can do a bit better

Wah... hope it doesn't cost RM6x when it arrives here...

Wonder if it will be heavy...

Hi there

If we're selling ready to run cars, we could probably set up a separate track for them to race in. If not, David will go gila having to face so many kids

However, even if we attract plenty of kids, not all of them can be competitive, or have the budget to spend on competition. Maybe we end up running different class events by then?

Sometimes during competition we can draw a small crowd, we hear their reaction when looking at the cars. Imagine if during grand finals we do it upstairs we can see a lot more people. But at this scale we are doing it is O.K. for a start IMO. If we have more people join, more crowd, then is harder to control the crowd, harder to control the race itself also. Maybe we need some more volunteers eh?

Since every race we have 20+ people the entry fee shall be 1k+ per entry

I think no need for official race every fortnight. Perhaps just shifting the track there every weekend is enuff for publicity. But to do that is a lot of work

















edit-fortnight into weekend

This post has been edited by iDIOT: Sep 9 2009, 03:33 PM

It's for publicity lar... notice more people stop to watch when we put it out there. They oso dun know it's a competition we're having what. We have no signage, no trophy on display oso.

If by showing that we are drawing a crowd every weekend then we are proving that it is progressing well... More competitions don't necessarily show that. In fact, having too many competitions or too often might be counterproductive?

Sorry if you guys have misunderstood me... I'm not asking for trophy and such. My point was that most people don't know if there is a competition or not because those things are missing. Hence competitions affect us who are already
playing mini 4wd, and not necessarily entice more people to participate.

Besides, don't we all race for fun?