Gex_61

well mine is perfect, my local hobbie shop is to big of a track and the battery will go dead on my mini-t after about 5-10 laps around.

On mine I can get about 30-40 (just guessing). It depends on what you like. I'm a pretty good intermediate driver so I have made some of my tracks about 3 feet wide in some spots but I usually try to keep it 5-6 feet wide. I like technical stuff though.

I've never measured mine, its about 35X20 which is plenty of space to get a good mini race. It fits 3 good size lanes across. The straits unless you have a modified motor don't need to be big otherwise they're boreing.

The jumps (in my opinion) shouldn't be big at all. The ramp in my above picture is the tallest jump yet and its only about 1.5 feet tall. The angle is a little steep for it and it will break your car if you don't hit it right but I plan on makeing another side so It will be a smoother table top. Keep them small and they are fun.

Tomorrow I will have pics and you have to see them I have changed my track a little.

I see this is your first post sluggonaut, are you makeing a track.

Gex_61

Also check this out if you have not seen it yet, its my mini crowdpleazer body and it looks like a clone of my xxx-t. I just couldn't find the exact stickers in tiny size.

outtakontroll

I am also interested in making a track this year and was wondering about track specifications as well IE: lane width, turn diamiter,jump height/legnth etc. So anyone who can help with track specifications for 1/18th scale would be appreciated.

Also I was trying to think of a way to make wooden jumps so that they are movable. I was also thinking of making the surface of the ramp with carpet instead of wood. Possibly flip the carpet over using the back of the carpet for the surface of the ramp. I know I will have to use more cross braces inbetween the sideboards. My reasoning for this is that the flimsy(er) carpet will contour to the ground better where the carpet meets the ground.

I plan on cutting carpet lane width (x feet wide) and just laying the carpet on the ground giving an offroad contour to the track and possibly using garden hose for the berms and screwing it to the carpet.

I figure this would be my cheapest alternative being that I have endless supply of scrap carpet. and garden hose is fairly cheap.

Any Ideas?

...............Outtakontroll

furnaceman

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I made mine last year. I will be doubling the size this year to run some 1/10 stuff and mini nitro cars. I plan on a total layout of 20x60 this year right now its 18x26.

Bill

outtakontroll

Furnaceman, WOW That track looks about perfect. May I ask how wide those lanes are?

........outtakontroll

furnaceman

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lanes are 4 foot wide ecxept for the middle its 3. We built that with no plan just started building one day, I even installed lights for night racing. the new track we designed is going to have five foot lanes, table top, step up, bigger double, a pit with a single before it, rythum section and a couple of small doubles. That thing took a lot more work than we ever thought it was going to take, this year I'm actually buying dirt and might even have acsess to a front end loader too. I can't wait for spring this year, LOL All your tracks look great too! It's amazing what we can all do in our yards when the scale gets smaller. I can't wait to get my nitro micro buggy I have to sell my rc18t first( or so says my boss/accountant/WIFE!)

Tigger N. Bennie

First, I would check http://www.roarracing.com/rules.php and review the minimum barrier specs for both 1/12 and 1/10th on-road electric and 1/10 off-road electric and fuel. Second, I would check out the Surfaces section which also shows the minimum lane width--myself I would use at least 8 feet or even 10 feet if brushless was used. And since the straight on my RCP Track was 43 feet and I was only running 1/28th scale RCs with modified motors, I would make the straight even longer on an 1/18th-1/16th scale track. The lanes on my RCP Track also varied from 100cm ( @ 40" ) to 150cm ( @ 60" ) and larger near the pit area. To be comfortable--around 80 feet x 40 feet. Of course, everything could be reduced if fewer RCs ran at one time. However, since you mention that space was not a limitation, I would plan on running at least a 10 car qualifier and over plan rather than under plan.

mariodx3

[font="Times New Roman"][font="Arial"][size=1]THIS IS A LAYOUT OF MY TRACK. ITS A L SHAPE. WITH 6 JUMPS SO FAR.
WE START AT THE SET UP AND GO CLOCK WISE. HERE WE GO
THE STEP UP JUMP IS : 6 IN AND THE TOP IS :12 IN high
THEN ON TO A 12IN HIGH HUMP THEN a right hand turn
THE BIG BURM THAT IS : 4 FEET HIGH
THEN A 6IN JUMP THEN
A SMALL HUMP THAT 3IN HIGH
THEN ANOTHER 6IN JUMP THEN
LEGNTH OF THE STRAIGHT AWAY: 20 FEET
THEN a right hand small burm thats :15in high
then a 7 in high jump then
a straight away thats : 15 feet
then a right hand burm thats 12in high
then in to a 6in high and 3 feet long table top jump
then a short straight away thats 8 feet
then in to a small left hand burm thats about 7in high and
back to the step up.
WIDTH: 4FEET
HEITH OF MY HIGHEST JUMP : 15IN
THE BIG BURM IS : 4 FEET HIGH
THE SMALL BURM IS :17 IN HIGH
THE TINY BURM IS : 7 IN HIGH
THE STEP UP JUMP IS : 6 IN AND THE TOP IS :12 IN

mariodx3

HERE IS ONE PIC OF MY TRACK ITS THE BIG BURM THATS 4 FEET HIGH

outtakontroll

WOW mariodx3 thats nice ! Any more pics? Are 4 foot lane widths wide enough to race 2 cars on? My cousin and I are the only two who have minis so it will be only me and him racing and we do have limited space.

..........outtakontroll

mariodx3

Yea look at this pic three cars. this is a pic right before the step up jump.. What part of my track do you want to see ??? just ask me.

Tigger N. Bennie

My minis in the photo are shown on 150cm ( @ 60" ) worth of RCP Track, which may help provide some idea of lane width and minis.

mariodx3

Thank you. outtakontroll. here is pic from ground looking at the step up to the big hump then big burm then the two small jumps that are 7 in high.

mariodx3

ok this is my bubby's car its a 1/18 scale vendeta. OOOOOOO yea he broke his dog bone to day. He was trying to drive his car up the burm. It was cool a few times when it would get a high vert. and turn in the air and come back down nice and smooth. but then he said ( OK JUST ONE MORE TIME ) then he broke it. ha ha .... we went to ultimate hobbies in ca. But no luck out of dog bones.




ok here is the pic

mariodx3

here is one more pic . this is mike's car

Gex_61

I have been busy for a while but I now have pics of my new track. I got carpet for my jump landing till I get the other side done. Made a bunch of jumps and mobles to. The tri-oval was just to boaring, I like the technical stuff as you can see.

Also got some in action pics.

Gex_61

sweet

mariodx3

That tracks looks so much better now. You did a good job andy on that track. It just looks like you need more room... ask your dad if you can take over the hole back yard.

Gex_61

lol, well my dad is thinking about getting a mlst, he already sold the other mini-t. It's my mom that doesn't want the track bigger. I'm going to have to find an empty lot somewhere.

I like that little jump though. I just staked down a 2X4 and sloped the dirt up. The mobles are cool to, if you don't hit them right it flips over. Also it flies off the big jump and hits the very edge of the carpet and you can tell by all the dirt at the end.

I think i'm going to leave it like this for a while, its perfect.

mariodx3

yea that 2x4 jump is a good jump. I'm going to put some of those in .... At my track thanks for the tip

Gex_61

Hello everybody. How are the mini-t tracks going?

I have new pics of mine, I changed it quite a bit. It's going to be good for my buggy's to. Me my cousin and grandpa are going to run the associated B3, Losi XX buggy, and Losi XXX- bk2 on it. Along with my mini-t.

Gex_61

These are a week later (today) lol. As you can tell it rained like crazy this whole weekend. So I have pictures of it underwater.[] No bashing today. I have been literaly shouvling the water out. The one on the right is the 9th bucket.

At least you get some more depth perception and I got to do some maintinance on my cars.

Also my LHS races have been cancelled for about 2 months now. Bakersfield is freaking wet right now.

outtakontroll

I did the whole carpet thing it works pretty well ! At least until i get some nice wheather to start shoveling so I can turn it into dirt...........Enjoy

outtakontroll

Ok I thought I saw someone on this thread asking about how to make portable jumps but after skimming the thread again I couldnt find it so here is how I made mine. I cut 2 triangles aproximately 9 inches high, and 4 1x2's 4 ft in legnth,and 1 piece of quarter inch luan (plywood) 4ftx2ft and started about 2in from the top point of the triangle and attached a 1x2 to the triangle with 1 drywall screw in each end and 1 to the bottom of the triangle (where the right angle is) and the other 2 in a slight curve to secure the plywood to to keep the curvature of the ramp and secured the plywood to the cross braces (4, 4ft long 1x2's). I kept the top of the triangle sticking up approximately 2 inches from the surface of the ramp so that my 4ft wide strips of carpet would keep from sliding off of the sides of the ramp. It works perfect ! I have made more of them since I took the above pictures. I also have aquired more carpet also. But I have had miserable wheather here so I have not had a chance to mess with it further. Attached is a generic 3d picture I drew up real quick with paint to give you an idea of how I made the ramps. Its kind of the way you would assemble launch ramps for shateboarding except not as drastic. hope this helps.

-Inverted-

This man is a pro, he makes paint look like CAD!