BrianMSmith

I want to build a street course in front of my house for 1/10 electric buggies. Saves a drive to the track, gives my son a chance to practice a lot.

Has anyone build jumps and obstacles out of wood structures? Can anyone recomend some designs that work well for these cars, such as ramp height, angle, dimensions, materials, etc?

I am guessing that ramps between 8"-12" in height, ramp angles between 15-35 degrees would be about right. I would have a couple "table tops" structures on the larger size, 10"-12" high, with the steeper ramp angles, and a takeoff and landing ramp as one obstacle on a short section of track. And for the straightaway I would have a couple or several obstacles of the smaller size, 8", lower ramp angles, strung together for a rythm section.

Thanks.

rcwheelsandprops

You should visit [link=http://rcwplubbock.com]RC Wheels and Props Raceway[/link] down in Lubbock, Texas, they have a brand NEW indoor offroad track on carpet and they have alot of wooden jumps and table tops. It is awesome to race there!!!!! www.rcwplubbock.com >>RCWP Gallery>>RC Wheels and Props Raceway.....or 806-797-9964

nitrozach54

you could get some small ones on tower
http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...&I=LXUB32&P=ML
not quite 12" tho

Chris_RC

Or those 12" kicker ramps.

EDIT: What I used to do was to put something really high below the ramp to make it high, then the same thing on the other side of make the landing steeper. It really helps with throttle control in the air.

e123

Yeah, thats a great idea. Instead of building a course in front of your house you should drive down to Texas instead. Way to pimp your track threadcrapper.

SlashBasher

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+1 the guy lives in washington!!!!!just build some wood jumps and have fun in your yard

Access

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBbIL5wKWT8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsJX3WUbFsw

I already posted these vids in another thread, one of the tracks I go to does this for the slash racing. They are maybe 1 foot tall, 25 degrees I'd guess, and the jumps rarely go above waist level. If you want I can try to get some pics of them next time I'm at the track (could be a while though).

I have a really big ramp which I use for big jumps but I wouldn't recommend it, it breaks just about everything given enough time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnYS6o6TFlY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngBmzGFMYSI

I can send you some close-up pics of that, the structure works pretty well, but I don't think you'd want one like that, especially for street. You'd be breaking stuff left and right (I think).

MHall

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A friend of mine and I have built 3 table tops for our road track. Everybody loves them, but watch out for the bigger jump!! There are several pic's of them at- http://www.speedworldraceway.com/SLA...E_PICTURES.cfm
The big one is 18" tall with 32" ramps and 48" center section, the ramps are at 25deg's. The 2 smaller jumps are 8" or 9" tall with 32" ramps and 32" center sections, the ramps are at 15deg's. All the jumps are 48" wide and we set 2 side by side for 8' of total width. We built the frame work out of 2x4s that we ripped in half and 4x8 sheets of 1/2" OSB. They are strong enough for several adults to stand on too! We are designing more fun stuff that will be added to the mix soon...