help! getting started in dragracing
08-06-2007, 02:51 PM
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help! getting started in dragracing
I am wanting to start racing my buddies they are running 10th scale cars but no dragsters they also all run gas. I am willing to do electric but all my experiance has been with gas cars. We run in a long parking lot well they do I am not crazy enough to put my turmoil up against a road car. average speed is in the 100mph range I want to go out and kill the competition so I need to be getting around 115 out of the car. I will get a distance on the p-lot so you know what I am working with. I have no idea where to start wiith a dragster so what do I need and what kind of cabbage am I looking at forking out?
08-06-2007, 03:41 PM
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RE: help! getting started in dragracing
Contact Mike at Grand Motor Sports,, He will help you out... Also RAE Roy Anderson... Both of these guys Are the Best and will help you get what you want....Let your Buddys know a 1/10th scale Drag strip is 132 feet long...I hope this has helped...John from Nitro Rage RC and Founder of the Midwest RC Drag Racing Series...
08-06-2007, 06:06 PM
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RE: help! getting started in dragracing
this is more of an unlimited run what you brung type of thing. nobody looks inside your car and your only idea of what one will do is watching them race. You have to line up and run hoping your car is faster than the other guy. your post helped alot thanks
08-06-2007, 11:23 PM
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RE: help! getting started in dragracing
Welll....
If you build a 4-cell Lipo dragster with a Mamba Max 7700 motor and esc, you're pretty much guaranteed to have the fastest thing on the block. The trouble will be in hooking up all that horsepower on an untreated parking lot.
If you build a 4-cell Lipo dragster with a Mamba Max 7700 motor and esc, you're pretty much guaranteed to have the fastest thing on the block. The trouble will be in hooking up all that horsepower on an untreated parking lot.
08-07-2007, 02:48 PM
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RE: help! getting started in dragracing
The usual deal is to go buy four or five bottles of Grape soda, shake the heck out of them, and spray the track thoroughly, especially the launch pad to get it all nice and sticky. Then, put Koford traction compound on your tires (it's actually a slot car product).
You got to have a clean, sticky track to get a dragster to hook up. No pebbles, no sand, etc...
You got to have a clean, sticky track to get a dragster to hook up. No pebbles, no sand, etc...
08-07-2007, 07:42 PM
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RE: help! getting started in dragracing
If you really want to go fast, and not want to have to engineer anything (like Nic Case did) that's the way to do it. Jimmy Schauer has gone 108 with his dragster with pretty much off the shelf components.
Other than that, you're either looking at a 1) shorter wheelbase electric lipo powered car or 2) a nitro powered car, of which only two or maybe three in the world have ever hit a real 100 mph, and those were high-dollar purpose-built unlimited speed run cars. Fact.
Other than that, you're either looking at a 1) shorter wheelbase electric lipo powered car or 2) a nitro powered car, of which only two or maybe three in the world have ever hit a real 100 mph, and those were high-dollar purpose-built unlimited speed run cars. Fact.
