Yeah...it was good to get back on the carpet and to see everyone again. And the new Fastrack carpet is SWEET ! There's plenty of traction and yet I don't remember seeing any traction rolls. I don't know if going the other direction has anything to do with it or not. And I really like the new layout, Rick - you did good. It seems made for the BuRPs! Do you have one of those drawings of the layout you can post here?

I'm VERY impressed with the V2 chassis as well. It seems to change direction much quicker and smoother than the old chassis. And it was hooked right out of the box. I didn't change anything all day. I'm not saying it won't go faster, it just felt real good, and I know my driving is abit "rusty" so I'll do alittle tweaking next time.

I know we'll have at least one more new racer pretty soon....Santa said so! :)

Sounds good out there in PA!!!!!!!!!!
Yes the V2 does work well, thanks K1M :)

Glad you like the new layout. Hope I get to try it this week! :) I like the looks of the new V2 and might have to do a little "upgrade" to my Fun One here soon. :) How about I do one better and just post a pic of the track? :thumbsup:

Looking good Rick!!!!

I see Mcallister has made a late model and EDM bodies for the Mini-T and SC18. Check them out! http://www.mcallisterracing.com/racing/page13.html

Without looking at the link. Are these the same bodies somebody just posted recently (at least the late model) and said were to big for the SC18?

Thanks Bud! Looking to please as many as I can. :)

Sorry, Ovalman, guess I was a tad excited about the late model body and wanted to share.

I was the same way, Don. I thought the added width would be the tits for Fun Wons, but it's WAY too wide. In fact, the dang thing must be almost square...it does look cool on a mini-t though. I'll bet Canbquick will have one on his before long!

No other road course cars this week so we ran a little oval with the BuRP cars. Oh what a feeling fresh off the summer break dried out foams are! :lol: A little FX2 for the main and things were hooked up pretty well again. K1M was smokin' fast and I might have to try some of those GP1100s too. :)


-- Fun BuRP - A Main --
Pos Car Laps time name id avg.mph
1 7 60 5:00.13 Kim Fortner 22 18.40
2 0 57 5:02.08 Rick Morgan 14 17.37
3 8 56 5:06.57 Mike Button 17 16.81
4 6 54 5:00.01 Joy Fortner 23 16.57
5 5 53 5:00.95 Don Weimer 8 16.21
6 4 39 5:02.30 Matthew Weimer 10 11.87
7 9 36 5:06.01 Barb Morgan 15 10.83
8 3 16 2:25.81 Logan Tilley 20 10.10

Gotta love oval racing no matter what scale! The new carpet is ALOT smoother and it seems much faster. Not sure, but I think 68 laps was the old record with a mod motor and I'll bet we can come close to that with a stock V2. It really hooks up in the turns and it never rolled once, even with a road course setup with a ton of steering.
Speaking of tires, I'm working on a selection of compounds from several different manufacturers so everyone should be able to find something that works for them. The pile of black dust in my workshop is evidence that
Fun Wons Rule at Racers Edge!
:D

Sorry guys, no results until Tuesday when I go back to the track. Flobby disks suck! :mad:

Sorry guys, no results until Tuesday when I go back to the track. Flobby disks suck! :mad:
Uhhhhh..... flobby discs ??????:lol:

Ok so I got a couple upside down P's in there, give me a break. :lol: So you're going to be there this week right? :)

He ran the new V2 in the first heat.....He'll be there! (He did pretty well with it too)

New record by K1M with his new V2 this week. He continues to be fast with it. I'm still trying to get my tires worked in from sitting all summer. Wasn't bad in the main but boy is it different driving the opposite direction than we have in the past!

Kim Fortner - 31/5:04.82


-- Fun BuRP - A Main --
Pos Car Laps time name id avg.mph
1 7 31 5:04.82 Kim Fortner 27 9.36
2 0 30 5:01.65 Rick Morgan 3 9.15
3 8 29 5:01.31 Mike Button 9 8.86
4 9 14 4:57.54 Barb Morgan 2 4.33
5 6 12 5:11.02 Matthew Weimer 21 3.55

I don't know if this has been posted before but it's new to me.

#210 Mini EDM Body--
Fits Mini -T Chassis 1/18th
This body is designed as a direct fit
or the Mini T Chassis.
No modifications necessary.
Has one-piece formed center section.
Includes roof kit with instructions
and window paint mask.

Yer a little behind the times SD. :jest:

SD, where were you?? :)

Johnqpublic turns right!!! :freak:

I get a track record!

Another week of racing has come and gone and once again the BuRPs did fly. Everybody seems to really like the new track layout. It's REAL tight for TC but 1/12 and 1/18 have a good time on it. K1M handed the driving duties over to Johnqpublic for the main and once he figured out he had to turn more than just left he did just fine. :) Maybe we'll have a new 1/18 scale racer soon? lol Like K1M says, there is still plenty in the track but at least for this week I managed to get a good run and break his record.............for now. lol

Rick Morgan - 31/5:04.56


-- Fun BuRP - A Main --
Pos Car Laps time name id avg.mph
1 0 31 5:04.56 Rick Morgan 1 9.37
2 2 27 5:06.19 Joy Fortner 34 8.12
3 7 21 5:06.36 Kim Fortner 33 6.31
4 1 21 5:13.73 Mike Button 28 6.16
5 3 19 5:11.42 Logan Tilley 15 5.62
6 6 12 5:15.77 Matthew Weimer 17 3.50

Nice run Ovalman! I do think we can do better than 31 laps, but it's going to take a nice clean run. I just couldn't seem to get it together on the road course yesterday, in one heat I managed to crash twice on the back stretch on the same lap! Even when I could manage to hold a good line I seemed destined to tangle with some of the slower cars. JohnQ was just standing around anyway, but I didn't have to twist his arm too hard to stand in. Just hope he's not in the dog house now because he got a phone call just before that and he said he was heading out the door then. :rolleyes:
I'll tell you who's getting faster all the time...Michael B! He was blistering up the track the first heat, I think I'll loan him a battery next week - he may be able to knock Ovalman right out of the record book.
The track is awesome, it's smoothed out pretty well and the layout works great for BuRPs.

What happened to all the mini-t's?

You aint just a kidding Mikey is getting fast! The first week it seemed like we couldn't get away from each other and he took the first heat handily on Sunday. Could be he finally figured out how to drive the "wide ride"? :)

Is was pretty funny when you managed to run into the wall twice that one lap. Matter of fact I think I ran into the wall at the end of the straight because I was wondering what you were doing on the straight. :lol: Tried a set of those tires on the rear this week that you trued up for me. Holy traction batman!! Until I get the fronts rubbed in a little during the race I have one heck of a push with them. :lol:

What happened to LLB is what happened to the Mini-Ts I think. She hasn't been there so Joy's probably the only one with one there. Still trying to talk Porkies ol' lady into running hers. Joy keeps working on her but she's a tough nut to crack! LOL Knoxville has the one he got from Puddin' but he's not racing that either. Shawn Tilley has one but not racing either. I don't really know what happened with the Mini-Ts. Seems like they were here and now they are over already. Tom and Denny want RC18Ts but I can't get them yet.

It just seems as though something was.........missing this week. :(

Oh yea, that's it, no BuRP racing. :cry:

Hey, hey, we had some BuRP racing today! Our first look at the new Assoc. 18th truck and I was pretty impressed. The 18T appears to be what the Mini-T should have been from the get go. Stock for stock the trucks aren't even comparable as the Assoc. has oil shocks and is much faster. First small scale vehicle I've seen that can run with the BuRPs! If I get a little off roader, I think it'll be a RC18T. Finished 1st and third in the BuRP class this week.


-- Fun BuRP - A Main --
Pos Car Laps time name id avg.mph
1 2 28 5:04.60 Tom Himes 23 8.46
2 0 28 5:04.69 Rick Morgan 1 8.46
3 6 21 5:07.49 Ronda Himes 25 6.29
4 4 17 5:10.82 Jeffery Kinney 9 5.03
5 1 9 4:20.76 Drew Teclaw 10 3.18
6 9 3 0:52.21 Barb Morgan 3 5.29
-- 3 --- DNS --- Mark Tilley 11 0.00

You got that right Mini T gone. The RC18T kicks.

Mostly mini off roaders this week as the BuRP cars were outnumbered. Do we need separate classes? Kind of like the extra competition myself. Maybe a class name change is in order? We have 1/12 scale so maybe 1/18 scale?


-- Fun BuRP - A Main --
Pos Car Laps time name id avg.mph
1 0 30 5:05.77 Rick Morgan 33 9.03
2 7 29 5:05.26 Kim Fortner 31 8.74
3 2 28 5:02.21 Tom Himes 22 8.53
4 3 21 5:08.01 Joy Fortner 32 6.28
5 9 16 5:10.82 Barb Morgan 35 4.74
6 1 7 5:15.62 Jenna Anderson 3 2.04
7 4 2 1:26.30 Jeffery Kinney 2 2.13
-- 6 --- DNS --- Dennis Himes 29 0.00

Since it's a new year might be a good time to start a new thread.

Geez I dunno Hank. Was beginning to think with the amount of posts I'm getting, I might just let it drop off. :(

We all read it Ovalman !!!!!!!!!!!!

I think it's time for a 1/18 scale truck class. When the mini-ts finally came out last year, we ran them a few times in the BuRP fun class and then when there got to be more than a couple, we experimented with their own class jumps and all. As it turned out, there wasn't much of a following - partially because we couldn't get parts to keep them running. I think we all had hopes for a mini truck class that carried throughout the summer dirt season. Try as we might though, there was never more than 2 or 3 of us willing to run them. Even at Da track in Ohio, interest in racing the mini-ts seemed to drop off by the time we made it out there in September. Now there's a renewed interest with the release of the RC18T and maybe some of those who have Mini-ts will join in and have some fun with them.

I really can't explain the drop in BuRP racers on the track or here on Hobby Talk. I don't see much sense in changing the name or the rules (http://www.racersedgerc.com/rules.html) of the class though, I seriously doubt that would help the problem.

Next question. So do we really want to make separate classes to dilute the field? I'm looking at it as last week we would have only had three cars running BuRP (6 running 1/18 truck). The week you (K1M) weren't there we only had myself and The Cook there to run BuRP............we didn't run. :( What ever happened to the Open BuRP class everybody wanted last year? Mike showed up all ready to run it and there wasn't anybody else to run. Canbquik and LLB both have their cars set for oval I believe so they won't be running Fun BuRP. Are we to make the 1/18 truck class a off road type class if we make one? My only problem with that is we don't really have any room to store more items (jumps, bumps, etc). I hate to add one class at the expense of another. :cry:

-- Fun BuRP - A Main --
Pos Car Laps time name id avg.mph
1 7 34 5:01.25 Tom Himes 23 10.39
2 6 34 5:06.34 Justin Johnson 25 10.22
3 0 31 5:07.30 Rick Morgan 4 9.29
4 9 18 5:04.95 Barb Morgan 6 5.43
5 8 12 5:23.87 Jeffery Kinney 8 3.41

Anybody want to run BRP's on the oval? Stock or Mod?

i would want to run on the oval cause thats what my truck is set up for.

Set up??? Ya mean thats why your wheels are on inside out? :p Ok, man...maybe we can get a few others to race with us too.

I think there were 4 BRP's and 4 trucks in the Fun BuRP class this week and the BRP's kicked butt! In fact, I think acouple of the trucks looked alittle rough when it was over and the smoke cleared. :drunk: Poor little fellas!

If I can convince enough BRP racers to race again, maybe the trucks will run in their own class. I figure it's worth a try.

-- Fun BuRP - A Main --
Pos Car Laps time name id avg.mph
1 0 32 5:08.62 Rick Morgan 2 9.54
2 4 29 5:09.14 Kim Fortner 35 8.63
3 3 25 5:22.62 Justin Johnson 38 7.13
4 6 18 5:00.19 Ronda Himes 33 5.52
5 9 17 5:05.05 Barb Morgan 4 5.13
6 1 11 5:38.33 Jenna Anderson 11 2.99
7 7 10 1:38.80 Tom Himes 17 9.32
8 2 9 4:42.12 Jade Anderson 13 2.94
-- 8 --- DNS --- Jeffery Kinney 12 0.00

I got my brp back together and ready to roll this sunday but I'm all road course when It comes to brp unless my fan cools my motor fast enough to run both heats.

Why separate them? I thought the whole idea of this class was for fun. If so the more the better. If the BRPs are kicking butt, then that's just more incentive for the truck drivers. The truck drivers just need to keep an eye out for those BRPs with reverse. :) We'll see next Sunday. :thumbsup:

I think some are looking at it from the way I originally set up the rules, stock BRP cars only. I personally LOVE racing with a full field of little vehicles out there and I just don't see that happening anymore if we separate the class into 1/18 truck and BRP. :cry:

ahhhh...nothing like alittle smack talk to liven things up abit, huh? Didn't take long either.

Looks like racings cancelled for tomorrow...must be this cold Pa. weather got to the buildings pipes. :(

On a lighter note, my mini-t has some new skin:

Nice k1m.
Hopefully the pipes thaw without too much damage...

You thinking about getting an RC18T?
Several racers here in Columbus have gotten them and
upgraded them to run with Castle Creation Mamba 2500 brushless setups.

RAFster
David

That's one SEXY Min-T...........;)

That looks pretty sweet K1M! Must be you decided to try out the airbrush again huh? You said after the last time you were almost afraid too. :lol:

Yeah, I've been having trouble with my airbrush the last couple of times I used it. It's like the paint wants to "sputter" (the best way I can describe it). It doesn't come out smooth & even in a fine mist, at times it even shoots little gobs. I've tried everything from thinning the paint to more or less air, I've cleaned it thoroughly and even replaced the needle trying to get it straightened out. This time I tried replacing the tip as well, and that seemed to help but it's still not right. One thing I did notice was that even though I've been having alot of trouble using it with the acrylic Fascolor paint, when I switched to the Spazstick chrome paint on the blower & pipes it seemed MUCH better. The chrome paint is alot thinner than Fascolor but I never had to thin Fascolor before. Any suggestions would be appreciated, as I'm planning on painting another body soon.

:confused:

I dunno what to tell you as I've started having the same problem. Most of the time it seems the paint is drying before spraying out the tip (especially white). I tried somebodies suggestion of using alcohol to thin the paint. It seemed to make things MUCH worse like it was causing it to dry even faster while sraying. I've heard another suggestion of using windshield washer fluid to thin and I think that will probably be my next experiment. What needle are you using? I've been using a #5 as it's all I had and I'm almost half afraid to try the new #1 and #3s I just got for Christmas. :(

Could it be because it may be like -25 degrees there !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

The number 5 is the biggest needle for the Paasche H type airbrush and spraying Faskolor is difficult for some airbrushes; Testors Aztek especially.
Maybe get ahold of the Createx Retarder. A good art supply store that carries Createx (an art acryllic paint similar to FasKolor) should have it. I got mine at Dick Blick's Art Supply.

White is very heavy in pigment, so it will provide the most challenge. Being drier air at home in the winter also contributes to it drying faster. Relative humidity will play a role in the tip drying also. So, while a rainy day in summer can cause some painting issues on a snowy or rainy day in winter it hasn't for me.

The lexan laquer paints by Pactra can be sprayed with a #3 needle. I don't think you'll have much success with them using acryllics. I've not been able to.

RAFster
David

Bud brings up a good point, warming the paint can help with flow and be sure your body is warm as well. If you heat it too much it will dry faster but if the body isn't warm enough it can have paint adhesion problems.

Bud - We all know you're envious of our lovely winter weather. :) It was only -6d this morning. That's like a heat wave around here.

Yea it's supposed to be in the neighborhood of 15 - 20 below tonight! Gotta love the Pa winters. :thumbsup:

I originally sprayed the Fascolor paints with a #3 tip and don't remember as many problems as I'm having now. :confused: So this Createx retarder......how's it dry after you put the paint on with it mixed in? I normally run a coat of paint and then dry it with a hair dryer. Will this stuff make that harder? I quit using the lacquer based paints because even in good ventilation it gave me a headache at first smell. I think Pactra has killed to many of my brain cells over the years! :lol: Of course on the other hand, I just can't get a good fade job with an airbrush like I could with Pactra spray bombs.

K1M......you were a first tester of the Pactra water based paints. Do you remember what kind of "consistancy" they had? Has anybody had any experience with this?

I've been having trouble with the Pactra. I used to use a Testor's Aztek airbrush I had for several years. It had to be replaced and the replacement from Testors seems to have quickly developed the same problem. They are replacing it again.
I've been using the Pactra acrylics for quite a while and lately have had trouble getting good results. It isn't from new paints either. Some of the bottles I've used before.

The Createx retarder works well and slows the drying a little unless you spill and add way too much. It only takes a few drops for the small batches I use. I still use the hair dryer.

I'm glad you got the #3 to work. I wasn't able and went to the #5 tip.
I don't like thinning more than about 5-10% of volume.
Some of the paint adhesion problems I've had are the paint coming
off in flakes after the body has hit the boards/pipes/other cars. The
solution is don't hit anything of course. :D
But, I've also fought with the same problems with drying and splattering
on both the Testors and the Paasche H model I picked up after the Testors died. Typically thinning and changing air pressures as well as going to the retarder helped.