:thumbsup:What h.o slots do you race ..home ..track..and..club..I ask because i was recently alerted to the fact that most people in my area race..tyco pro's and super two's(now they tell me) and swear up and down they have mag's and no mag's(afx) that are faster than super g plus...they confused me and schooled me at the same time!Tell me anything H.O....RE:super two's..tyco pro's and on..

Mostly AFX magnatractions though I had a bunch of tjets. Now some 25 years later I am a tjet addict with a bunch of magnatractions. Always raced on mine and my buddies home tracks, there wasn't any commercial tracks near us. Also, I didn't have the "technology" for the tjets until my second go around.

my favorites :

1 magnatraction/xtraction
2 "low tech" magnet cars (slow lighted tomy turbo +standard hard tires, tyco 440x2 with standard hard tires)
3 tjets, and experimental cars (magnetless projects, etc...)

MagnaTraction/X-Tractions with 70's sedans (on short, flat & dirt tracks) and winged superbird bodies (on big or banked tracks)...Can Am/GTP bodies on road courses
T-Jets with Dash Sopermodified bodies
JL Tuff ones with mixed bodies
AW Tuff ones with corvettes
Tyco 440 X2 pan chassis with 40 Ford coupes
LifeLike M Chassis with wide body stocks
LifeLike T chassis with COT bodies
any LifeLike chassis with lowered sprint car bodies
Tyco off road trucks with knobby tires on off road track
Tyco Aero hoppers & Turbo hoppers on off road track
Tyco 440x-2 chassis with HEAVY die cast dirt late model bodies
Marchon Monster trucks
Tyco narrow 440 X-2 chassis w/o/ magnets with Lexan Supermodified bodies
T-Jets with HEAVY die cast fat fender late 40's & 50's bodies
and I think that's it!
We've been racing every other week for 28 1/2 years now. Variety of classes & tracks keeps it from getting dull!!

Home and commercial tracks...league racing...

G3 with Double dot tractions hardbodies w/ slipon's..(Vintage Trans-Am Class)
G3/Slottech T1's Hardbody Poly-Stock Class (ceramic Motor magnets/Level 10 tractions w/ slipon's)
G3 Spec class 905's w/ rubber tires
SRT/R (restricted) independent fronts, 37 spinner armature can motors, slipon's w/ hardbodies
Super Stocks on occasion w/ Lexan bodies


Yo!

Stock T-Jets, Fray style T-Jets [super stock], AFX magnatractions/ JL X-Tractions. Once in a while we run G-Jets.

eastside,

"every other week for 28 1/2 years"

I am soooooo jealous.

That is great that you have such a slot following in your area. I seem to be the oddball around here that doesn't follow sports and doesn't play video games!

I just joined Eastside Johnnies club recently.

Good group of guys to race with!

Very laidback.

I can understand why they been together as long as they have!

Wayne :thumbsup::thumbsup:

Club: G3 G-Jet, Super-Stock, open box stock

Home: see above + fray, MT, LL, super G+, G+, pretty much whatever the heck I feel like :)

eastside,

"every other week for 28 1/2 years"

I am soooooo jealous.

That is great that you have such a slot following in your area. I seem to be the oddball around here that doesn't follow sports and doesn't play video games!

We've been very fortunate in the area here (very north, central Ohio) with a LOT of very competitive slot car action and a LOT of quality tracks. In the later '80's & early 90's during the traditional cold weather season we often were racing 3-4 nights every week between various track & series and all within reasonable drives. Everything from box stock to unlimiteds was going on too so you could fine enough to your liking. It also helped that there was local access to quality parts in addition to mail order, etc.BUT......a lot of racers have come and gone though after spending bunches of bucks and not being able to crack into the mains which is why our group now runs on the "low end" of the spectrum with box stock, super stock level classes augmented by IROC type "House Car" classes. Not as much need to get into a spending war and a lot less tension and a lot more fun. Ultimately that's what we are doing this for, to have fun & not to prove that we are the fastest on the planet, just the quickest that night. If the time come that guys aren't having fun then there's no need to continue.

Amen...that's exactly what I'd like to get going around here!

That is an excellent point east side johnny! The how fast do you want to go adage only really works for the Roger Penske's of life. Us mere mortals with a pitance of a slot car budget will get a lot more FUN for the buck in a low cost environment. You can always have select events for the guys who really want to challenge at the National Level - they have to keep their skillz sharp or they'll lose da edge. Embrasing the needs of the many while catering to the needs of the few is the balance we all need to strike with our racing programs. Elsewise, the many become the few...

Mararita powered Hutt :drunk::hat::freak::dude::tongue:

Winter series Club, Home track w/kids. Plastic Tomy track & Buck Scorpion. Cars - T-jet narrow tires, T-jet Indy body 1 5/16 wide open ceramic,SRT W/slipon silicone rears, & S/S Ceramic magnet cars Lexan body. Kids cars are Patriot P2E's & P3E's GTP Lexan.

blubyu, I'm curious regarding the T-Jet Indy body. Are these the original T-Jet Indy car bodies or something different?
Thanks

a lot of racers have come and gone though after spending bunches of bucks and not being able to crack into the mains which is why our group now runs on the "low end" of the spectrum with box stock, super stock level classes augmented by IROC type "House Car" classes. Not as much need to get into a spending war and a lot less tension and a lot more fun.


you're right, slot racing NEED box stock classes, magnet AND magnetless cars. IF people (whatever the scale) runs only 150-200USD cars with lot of racing parts on it, there will be no place for new beginners.


One thing I noticed, I found (from my little hole here in France) almost no information on competition racing with magna-xtraction cars. When I read club competitions, we see tjets, gjets, a few box stock magnets (tomy turbo, but sg+ mostly often), and hi end magnets cars...

But no magna-xtraction :confused: Strange as this chassis is easy to tune, cheap, and fun ?

Regularly Run:

1) Superstock TJets (fray/vhors style) with any Aurora/JL/AW stock parts legal, any body, any wheels, stock arms (Aurora or JL/AW)
2) Magnatraction/XT with any wheel/tire combination (incl. sili-sponge)
3) Box stock magnet cars: Includes any Tomy SRT with stock tires, Tomy SG+ with stock tires and black mags, LL M/T with stock tires, Rokar M car with stock tires, MegaG with stock tires, Tyco 440-X2 wide or narrow with silicone slip-ons, Tomy Turbo with silicone slip-ons, AW SIII with stock tires, any body on any brand
4) Superstock magnet cars - HOPRA/UFHORA rules (all brands represented) - teched
5) Tomy SuperG Plus w/any front end, slip-ons, black magnets, open wheel body

Occasionally Run:

1) Stock vintage TJets with skinny slip-ons (more like slip-offs!) teched
2) Superstock TJets (fray/vhors style) teched
3) Modified magnet cars - old HOPRA/current UFHORA rules - teched
4) Pro Stock Tyco - X2 with Phase II tractions

Rarely Run:

1) RO magnet cars
2) Neo modified magnet cars

Popular in My Basement: (in addition to above)

1) Original A/FX
2) Box stock Aurora/JL/AW TJets and MTs/XTs with slip-ons
3) Aurora G-Plus with silicone tires
4) Retired Superstocks (all brands represented)

Seriously Tried Them - But Failed Miserably:

1) GJets and ThunderStorms

Not HO: (split venues)

1) 1:32 non-mag with lexan bodies
2) Various magnet equipped 1:32 hard body classes

Original, lowered & lightened.....Plus the Harvey & Willard by American Line I think.

1) AFX G-plus, Turbo, SRT and Mega-G
2) Xtractions by Johnny Lightning and Auto World
3) Original Aurora AFX Magnatractions

Jim Norton
Huntsville, AL

1. skinny tire t-jet,double flange rims silicone tires
2.mod t-jet aurora,aw/jl weighted fronts wide sip-on rears
3magnatraction slip-on tires
4thunderstorms

I don't get a chance to race with my friends as much as I'd like too, but when we do get together.. we like to keep it classic. T-jets, Magnas, GPlus, Tyco curvehugger.
Once we set up a few heats based on time eras...

example: 60's... t-jet's, tycopro, riggen, cobramite, lionel, marx, faller, atlas...
anything made before 1970 could all race in the same race.

70's heat... AFX, tyco curvehugger, tycopro II, Cox, Amarac, Ideal, etc.
we raced gplus, but since they were a such a huge step beyond everythig else, they had their own heat.

we all had the newer cars and we ran a few laps with them,
but we all liked the idea of one brand racing another brand from the same era.
I think that's what really turned me onto collecting. I love to see what each brand brought to the table and to see the evolution, and sometimes de-evolution of the hobby.

And I learned that a well kept lionel can beat most t-jets ... and Faller pancake chassis from that era could beat them both, easily.

Wow is a understatement! i'll have to print this and make this a standard on what people race an how to start a racing club...but feel free to add more..:thumbsup:

In the 12 years I've been racing here's a list of what our grouped has raced.

Currently racing: TYCO 440-X2 Box Stock
Life-Like M-Car(ROKAR), Fast Tracker Box Stock
Above Cars in Super Stock
Magna-Traction
X-Traction
Aurora Thunderjet 500
Autoworld/Johnny Lightning Thunderjet

Past Cars we've raced: Tomy Super G+
Tomy Super G+ Sprint Cars with Lexan Body, AST, and gear changes.
Open Wheeled Magna-Traction Lexan Body and polymer Magnets
Open Wheeled Johnny Lightning Thunderjets Cut Hard Bodies
Vintage Stock T-Jets Cut Hard Bodies and Larger Wheels
Life-Like FT and TYCO 440-x2 Hard Body INDY CAR

Randy.

Locally we race T-Jets in various configurations along with stock Magnatraction in winter and super-stock Life Like (M and T chassis), Tyco 440X-2, and SG+/G3 in summer - 2 separate groups but some of the same racers. We average about 12 per race and race 16 times per year on several home tracks here in Kentucky.

1. AFX Mega G
2. AFX Super G+
3. AFX SRT
4. Tyco440X2/AFX RT
5. Life Like FT
6. AW Super III

In order of preference. I do run and enjoy them all. I wanted to try them all out. I'll be sticking with AFX from here on out. I have no desire for the super high end cars. I have a 70' two lane home track. Soon to become a 50' four lane.

DesertSlot, could you explain what you are calling super highend cars? And why are they super highend cars? Thanks.

I'm not real knowledgeable about them. I mean like the BSRT G3's or Wizzard Storms and some of the cars that the guys race and put a couple hundred bucks into. I'm sure alot of guys that read this can elaborate. They have hopped up armatures, custom wheels and tires, upgraded gears and some, lexan bodies. The T-jet crowd I think do a lot of mods too. I spent $26 on one of my Mega G's and a few cars I have where around $23 but all the rest were had for $10-20. That's plenty good enough car for me. I think SG+'s are about the best value if you shop around.

I run BSRT G3's & Storms & T2's, but the highest priced parts in them are the Rear tires @ about $8.00 a set. Motors are stock Tyco or SuperG & some $5.00 Wizzard Vortex(stock red wire) arms, Gears are $1.00 each for pinions & $2.00 each for crowns (all BSRT delrin). Lexan bodies are 2 bucks or less plus some decals and cheap hobby lobby paint or Parma Fastcolor, all and all I'm under a couple hundred bucks by a hundred easy. Now on the other hand Unlimited cars will set you back a couple hundred but not S/S ceramic.

1. Tyco 440x2
2. AFX Magnatraction
3. LifeLike M chassis
4. Tyco HP7
5. Tomy Turbo
6. Micro Eldon SuperMag
7. Marchon MR1
8. Tomy SRT
9. AFX SuperG+
10. Ideal TCR

I run BSRT G3's & Storms & T2's, but the highest priced parts in them are the Rear tires @ about $8.00 a set. Motors are stock Tyco or SuperG & some $5.00 Wizzard Vortex(stock red wire) arms, Gears are $1.00 each for pinions & $2.00 each for crowns (all BSRT delrin). Lexan bodies are 2 bucks or less plus some decals and cheap hobby lobby paint or Parma Fastcolor, all and all I'm under a couple hundred bucks by a hundred easy. Now on the other hand Unlimited cars will set you back a couple hundred but not S/S ceramic.

I guess you are one of the guys I mentioned, knowing more than me. After I posted, I thought that may be the case. At first I thought you were asking because you didn't know. In the meantime I looked at the G3's and they might be something I'd like to try sometime. Like a G3 Modified chassis with a nice GTP body. I don't like the lexan. I must have been referring to Unlimited cars before.

MAGNETS!!!!that's whats up!Non magnet's are what's up too! :thumbsup::wave::thumbsup:thanks all!

Super stock lightbenders...

Any make...

Super Stock,G-jet,and Box Stock.

We started out w/Tyco X-2 about 25 yrs. ago & went to Tomy G+ when they
became available. Our rules have been consistent for G+ in that anything is
legal as long as stock arm, motor/traction mags are retained. This keeps cost down yet allows builder to use Lexan body, any axle, bushings, wheels/tires, gears, & chassis upgrade. Occasionally, someone will run a Patriot or Storm. No formal racing w/ T-Jets or J/L other than a few guys taking a few laps before or after. I would like to begin a brass weighted class w/o traction mags, but as yet there isn't enough interest.
My Max-Trax 6 lane @ 6x19 is one of the 3 track layouts for next season. We have a T shaped Tomy 6 lane @ 22 ft. long that has been revised from previously having 8 lanes. Our original layout & still going strong is a 4x20 AFX track of 4 lanes. This layout has been up and running w/ no problems for 30 to 35 yrs!!! The only major change to this track has been a recent wall hung flat screen for computer lap/timing. All tracks are road courses. :)

lot's of good ideas,,,BUMP

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Hornet-- How many guys are racing these cars in your group? Also do you have pictures of some of your cars for this class? I recently built a p3 with kj 3/8 by 3/8 by 1/8 for the motor-- they fit like a glove although bigger air gap on arm was needed. Tractions and motor I think were under $2 total. I agree that this is the direction to go.

...glue them to your privates if you think it'll make you faster we don't care.

I think you're going too far here... tech inspector's job is tough enough already. :)

All kidding aside, though... Smart way to contain price and availability issues. :thumbsup:

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Anything with a pancake motor, on my home track or brother's track. Just messing around with 1/32 on routed wooden tracks, trying to get some friends together for that.