Ok, u hit it on the nose about it being like a deasle, thats exactly what its like.

The starter box has a big rubber wheel on it and it turns the flywheel over therefore starting the engine.

The RS4 is a great car for a newbie nitro guy. To be honest im going to push u to get a vision because im sponsored and its my job. However i dont think it is the best choice for u (until the sport version comes out maybe.) The OB4 is a good car, but parts availablity wont be great. If u want a car that u can go into the store and buy parts for, i think its either the RS4 or the NTC3 (which is available in a RTR form with radio and everything.) So, to meet ur criteria, i think its either the RS4 or the NTC3 and my pick of those two is the NTC3. Have Fun.

Steven Stewart,
GS Racing Team

Hey KawadaChump what's a deasle???

Don't you mean diesel???

And Pinwheel I would stay away from the vision for one reason, local parts availability. I would go to your local hobby shop and see what cars they support and then decide between those. Trust me, I run all Losi cars and 99% of my parts have to be ordered since Riders seems to think they suck and won't carry crap for them.

John,

I just ran some numbers on attendace from last year's CRL and posted them in the Carpet Racing League thread. I find it very interesting that the Grand Rapids area sent a good number of guys to at least one race, but not too many ran the whole series.

The best I can figure it is that your guys were afraid of the competition over here on the East side. What's up with that?

Im going to ryders on Sat. (lets hope it doesnt...ra...rai...rai...I cant say it)

I will check and see what they carry. I hate being out of business because of busted parts. (It happens all the time to me now because I have these cars that are about 15 years old.)

The TC3 looks like a sweet car....

The TC3 is a great car and Riders carrys alot of parts for it. Th at is the car that alot of guys run and is easy to get help with. Just be aware that we are only running outside ie. nitro till the end of this month so the tc3 is a great one the Ntc3 is not a good.

Originally posted by PinWheel
Im going to ryders on Sat. (lets hope it doesnt...ra...rai...rai...I cant say it)

I will check and see what they carry. I hate being out of business because of busted parts. (It happens all the time to me now because I have these cars that are about 15 years old.)

The TC3 looks like a sweet car....

Hammy,
I think that many of our racers including the Old one (john) were reluctent to travel to race but as you can see by the MORL race we are now out in force to support racing all over the state as we will with the CRL.

Originally posted by Motor City Hamilton
John,

I just ran some numbers on attendace from last year's CRL and posted them in the Carpet Racing League thread. I find it very interesting that the Grand Rapids area sent a good number of guys to at least one race, but not too many ran the whole series.

The best I can figure it is that your guys were afraid of the competition over here on the East side. What's up with that?

Hey Nitrorod Would I make you feal any better If I told you I wasnt getting it untill late Feb, early March?

I have to build up a stash of $$$

Where can I find a deffinition of parts? Like what they are all called.

I need some parts but I dont know what they are called. I need 2 of those things that have the Axels for the front wheels and attach to the Servo with the turnbuckles. What are those? I also need 1 of the Balls that attaches the turnbuckle to that thingy. It looks like a little trailer hitch. Whats that?

Also One of my Gears...(The Diff. gear?) has a crack so I need another one of those too. (Its plastic)

Those would be Ball Cups and are universal to almost all cars/trucks. The diff gear you will need a part number from your manual.

u mean the thing-a-ma-jigger that attatches to the conect-a-gazoink?

um the first one might be a servo horn?

The other one would be a ball stud (if its the metal part) and the thing that attatches to it is the ball cup, like Mr. Rod said.

I'm just saying that 19 of the 31 point trophy winners were from the Detroit area. I think you guys are just a little chicken of our super speed over here. :)

any of you guys daring to come to Adrian this weekend for the final round of teh MORL at Lazer?

Me.

Originally posted by Greg Anthony
any of you guys daring to come to Adrian this weekend for the final round of teh MORL at Lazer? I'll be there along with Fred Knapp, Brian Jackson, Steven Stewart, Dave Woellper, Dave Walton, Butch Beebe, Tony Raison and Tom Gilhorn just to name a few.

Now, if only I can reconstruct whats left of my NTC3???

hmm, u could use electric tc3 parts and have a regular style right front!hahaha:p

Originally posted by KawadaKid
hmm, u could use electric tc3 parts and have a regular style right front!hahaha:p
So your going to get that jalopy going by Sundcay?

Well there Mr. Knapp, Thanks to Tony R. and his wife, (their driving to the Hobby Hub as I type) I have managed to locate all the parts needed to rebuild my nitro wreck. So.... I'm almost 100% positive that I'll be joining you down in Adrian!!

:wave:

But then again, this is only the first leg of races (other than club) that we'll get to mix it up in. Let's see, there's This last race of the MORL series, then we'll have our end of the season race, then the indoor champs in Cleveland, then we'll start the CRL series, and then.... Oh boy, this is gonna be fun!!

HEY JOHNNY BOY!!! How'd ya like my names for the end of seasen race?

When I was at Riders today they had everything to put it back together.


Originally posted by John Warner
Well there Mr. Knapp, Thanks to Tony R. and his wife, (their driving to the Hobby Hub as I type) I have managed to locate all the parts needed to rebuild my nitro wreck. So.... I'm almost 100% positive that I'll be joining you down in Adrian!!

:wave:

yeah, dave says hes got his back together too. He also told me about a new care hes getting and get this, the guy is sending him an all carbon fiber BMW body! I cant wait to see it dave!

A carbon fibre body will be quite heavy, I would think. But real cool looking though. Hey j-glo I saw your post in the r n l thread in offroad. they used to have more of a regular dirt in there. But they went to the current clay because for indoor it is really good and really does away with all of the problems of ventilation and the dirt getting everywhere. It is so hard packed and sticky like pottery clay almost. the only downside is that slicks work the best down there.

Yeah just hate to see slicks used in "offroad racing". I like a bow-tie type track.

I agree but I think they are thinking more about there ease of maintenance for their building than the true nature of off road racing. Oh well at least it is still real dirt. I will definitely make my way down there this year. Especially after I get my new b4

p.s. for $75 I would like to take that os off of your hands. Is it broken in yet or not?

I see you are selling your xxx.

PS back...you can have it if you want. It has been broke in and has about 2/3 a gallon thrue it. You can have the rest of the gallon also. The crank is cut for an Assosiated though.

I actualy like the idea. Why try and find traction when its already there in the dirt?

eww, os? GET A MUGEN!!! italian stalion baby!

Actualy they both make a darn good engine.

actually steven you would be surprised you really have to read that track sometimes the slicks are not so good it depends oh how wet or dry the track is. That is just like you on-road guys though can't drive unles you have perfect traction:rolleyes: :p sheeeeesh how about a little challenge huh. J-glo cut for an associated is okay I plan on getting a rc10 gt. Yep the xxx is for sale a heck of a deal too if you consider I have 150 invested in just the tires that I will sell with it. What kind of fuel were you using? I will just keep using the same so I can avoid having to do any mini break ins or any of that stuff. Let me know when you want to head to r n l.

Sold...I am using the Odonnell 20% and like I said I have about 1/3 of a gallon left. When you going to be over again?

but thats the key to onroad, its not so much tire choice but chassis setup.

I am not sure j-glo. But I will get with you on that. Ahhhhh steven but the key to offroad is driving. Even if the chassis is not set up perfectly. Learn to drive without traction and you will be 10 times faster when you have it.

i know, that exactly why i started dirt this year. It just turns out our tracks got closed...go figgure. I would run other places like raw roots or something but i have to make nitro onroad my primary racing.

Yeah I hear you there you gotta go where the sponsorship is. You can always check out hesperia on a sunday J-glo knows where that is. And You should definitely hit r-n-l this winter on a saturday.

yeah, maybe. I need to get ready for Cleveland first thow. Which means i need to put out some dough. I need a charger, batteries, spedo and motors of course.

I saw your post in the offroad swap and sell j-glo. Yeah the buggy is my pride and joy. 2wd buggy is like the formula one class for electric racing. And I do love the buggies. But never fear I am not done with buggies NEVER. Just going home to associated the part # for the b4 is already out and I already have one on order.

You runnin' mod steven? I know they have handouts in stock.

Its possible. Most likely stock but i still need brushes. for all my motor work , i just give them to my "sponsor" hyena motors and let jeff deal with them.

hyena motors? who the heck is that?

A Mr. Jeff Hirdes. He builds a killer motor. We started calling them hyena motors (his nick name is Hyena boy, u would know if u ever heard him laugh) and it stuck and Hyena Motors was born. Hyena Power baby!:thumbsup:

Ohhhh isee he is not necessarily sponsoring you then he is your wrench/tuner. I see:eek:

yeah, thats why i said " "sponsor" "

So ur getting into this nitro game huh? Me and j-rock had a looong discution about the whole nitro VS eletric thing.

Yeah i am playing with a nitro truck. It is pretty cool. I just got bored with electric truck and was looking for something else to do. After you drive electric buggies trucks are just boring. I still think that on the club level, electric produces the best racing and the best chances for new racers to learn how to race. I have been racing since 97 and am just now even looking at nitro. I think that anybody looking at racing nitro should have at least 3 to 4 years of racing experience in electric before they even consider racing nitro. this year I held back from nitro truck early in the season because I did'nt know who was gonna run it and if there would be anybody to race against but between the guys at raw roots and the guys at hesperia there is getting to be a nice knowledgeable competitve group of about 8 to 10 guys that I think will be fun to race. And it looks like that next season that raw roots and hesperia will get together and have some kind of series, which I think will be cool so I think that I will do the nitro truck thing there next year and maybe the mexors next year if I have time. I don't know if I will get super serious because to be honest if you get really serious in nitro you will be running some 30, 45, min mains and you need 2 people to pull that off with pit stops and everything. Which is another advantage to electric, you don't have to have a pit man to go racing. Nitro is fun though. so what did you and j-glo discuss about nitro vs electric?

Hello JOHNNY!!!!!!!! RU GONNA SAY SOMETHING OR ARE YOU JUST ASLEEP AT THE KEYBOARD AGAIN?:confused: :rolleyes:

Let's see... East Vs. West.

We have Dave Johnson, you have Apple Head.
We have the Redwings, you have the Griffins.
We have the Tigers, you... you... well you can have the Tigers if you want them.
We have the Lions, you... well same story here.
We are the Motor City, you make desks and chairs.

We have a lake you can swim in.....you have...the Detroit River

Originally posted by Motor City Hamilton
Let's see... East Vs. West.

We have Dave Johnson, you have Apple Head.
We have the Redwings, you have the Griffins.
We have the Tigers, you... you... well you can have the Tigers if you want them.
We have the Lions, you... well same story here.
We are the Motor City, you make desks and chairs.

Don't forget J-rod, WE have the states best Hooter's Girls, they have what's left over :p

And also I won't be making down to the mars race today, I haven't been feeling good the past few days. That and I made my way down to the paint store yesterday and found out it's going to around $400 just for paint and stuff for my truck, so I need to save some dough.

We have the Bruise Brothers, who will throw you in the Detroit River...:p

WoW! Now I've heard about people going in
that river and never coming out, YiKeS!!

Fred??? Haven't seen you here lately,
where is it your hiding!

He's in a van,

down by the river...

psycho02 when you say r n l do you mean R&L Hobbies in Portage (Near Kalamazoo?).
I just started racing there (new to this forum too), I race an Ofna 1/8th 4WD nitro buggy, this winter I will be doing the indoor 2WD elec stadium truck (stock class).
I love their tracks (indoor and outdoor)
Thinking of putting a Big Jim MVP in my truckAnyone else run one of these, is there a huge difference between that and a P2K2 Pro (untweaked).

Thanks,

Jerrit
:wave: