12-23-2007, 05:13 AM
Eddie F Wrote:touring cars are expensive now, and were back in the day, tire/liner of the week, fresh motor if u ran stock, if u ran mod u pretty much got spanked but the factory drivers, battery wars, all that turned me away from carpet. Offroad, build a car, get a decent setup and tires, pretty much dont dont hit shit or do donkey flips and you do well .
Sportwerk's Recoil, 170 bucks and you are competitive for smaller scale.
At Undergound the track is about 120 feet so mod doesn't help. The best racers in 10th scale are winning using Tamiya silver can motors.
One of our regulars just ran electric at Leisure last week. The first time he's ever run off road. He's only been racing for about a year and it's been all parking lot and carpet for him with sedans. We gave him the advice to do the oppposite of what he does with on road...."Go slow". He came in 10th in the A main out of 20 racers. Now he's hooked.