oldschool77
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Joined: 1/27/2008
From: stratford, CT, USA
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Hahaha and I felt bad about not being able to make it due to wifey reasons...sweet!
Is anything on for Sunday if the outdoor area clears up? I want to give Richa shot at the Magic wheel, if not next Friday should be better for me.
Wifey saw the c.c. bill after we just paid it off...uh oh.
Well the FOC is in my future, HT has it for $11 so I can get rid of the jump jump jump.
So here is waht I have been up to..
Cold weather is killer for tuning. I was dumb enough Thursday to troll around Trumbull/Monroe for bashing in really sub zero windchill sunny weather.(there was a giant dirt area at the corner of basically rt.25 and rt.111...looked like they were thinking of making a mall or something, there was a long hill to the top with 3 bouldrs...I don't know maybe Jombo/X will chime in) Had the Tmaxx ballz on for tuning but it was a little too bumpy up there to get any kind of speed. Brought it over to Indian ledge all the way in the back by the upper ball field and lost the tune in the parking lot. So bad the oneway bearing was coated in fuel after going back to the base tune 3 times so it started to slip like mad. I had to restart it so many times I lost glow on two igniters. By that point I had frostbite and said f*ck it!
So I drove home, saw some RPM goodies in the mail and a ported/polished pro .15 manifold that came in so I spent the night rebuilding the truck with the new alluminum shocks/arms/manifold. It looks/sounds/drives like a different truck. When it gets in the 40's+ I will invest in some warmer plugs as I think they are easier to tune and the $11 forward only clutch will be in as well. That way I can use the good FM/PCM Futaba and put the Traxxas radio in the Magic Wheel where it will be much better suited. The damn magic wheel fires up/tunes/runs 100 times better then the Tmaxx sometimes! I really got to know every screw on this truck so at the very least I can fix just about anything on it at this point. As far as the lurching, I would rather get this gear, lose some rotating mass, be faster off the line and have a more trouble free truck then to have reverse. 90% of the time the truck flips and doesn't need reverse anyway to get out of trouble.
I was also impressed by your fleet Jombo. I can't keep thinking how mean that ThunderTiger sounded! The LST must have had the tune of its life it was running so consistent! Do you dial in a smidge of braking with those nitros so the braking is built into your throttle a bit for the turns?
< Message edited by oldschool77 -- 2/23/2008 5:11:02 AM >
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Probably have no oil in the shocks also haven't checked them ever, and it was given to me so who knows. 
, i will be their friday if it dosent rain for outside racing and still need to stop in the shop for my parts so i can race inside.