I hope for your sake that your club chooses to run rubbers as foam are a pain in the jacksy.

Biggest issue is that the 28mm wide ones (which are the common American size) are not an easy fit on quite a few of the chassis out there, you have to cut things up of swap parts over (most of the Japanese cars except the HotBodies need a lot of tweaking for foams to fit well).

Second nuisance with foams is that as they wear they decrease quite significantly in diameter, throwing your gearing and suspension settings out all the time.

Rubbers are a shade slower around the track but still grip, feels just like tarmac racing to me. I much prefer them.

Apart from the wheel fitting issues, foam-spec cars tend to have stiffer chassis and springs to make best use of the extra grip, and tend to run a front diff also. But most UK clubs on temporary tracks never get up to the level of grip that the foam cars are built for (ie permanent US tracks soaked to the skin with additive), so rubber spec cars will be just fine for most people.

So I would wait until the announcement on tyre rules before splashing the cash. The good news is that pretty much every car on the market right now is good enough to compete.

Get a Ta-05 or a TC5, both work really well and hardly brake. for cobra you dont need the newest thing as the club aint that strong.

TC4 ran the serpent into the ground at teesside warehouse:p and it costs alot lot less lol

i i'll 2nd that gaz :p

Can't go wrong with a hopped - up Tamiya TA-05 - or the MS

The Ta05 is a great car for Carpet/foams. Its fast / tough and really well balanced I quickly went from being a novice to getting in the A's with this car. After trying some other cars (serpent / Xrays) I recently upgraded to a Ta05ms and its amazing! The handling is spot on. The steering is faultless, and the overall balance is fantastic (I race a team orion 19t v2). With this car (and a bit more practice) Im sure I can win that A final. ;)

Also when racing on Foams, the best tyres are the Gecko's. They have amazing grip, Life and they dont chunk (I raced a set for 6 months and they never chunked) I had some Jacko (Spelling) ones that lasted about a month

I actually used to run a ta-04 in the welsh league, and in the super mod class of the eurocup.

twas a great car - but the price of spares and hopups was crippling.

I've done the tamiya thing i think :D

i'm more or less settled on a tc5. I was considering the serpent s400, but i've got doubts over spares availability.

can you PM me a link of where to buy the Gecko's please mate.

My Jaco's have chunked after a few races :cry:

I got a setup that i used at cobra for my Tc5 if you want a look at it?

http://www.microtechracing.com//prod...e=X&Name=GECKO

I run 35 front 32 rear

cheers pal

If your running it at Teesside i would use 40 front and 36/38 rear as you may be grip roll city with any softer :p

I'm racing with Xray T2008 (raced with T1FK04, T2 and then converted T2 to T2 '007) and I must say that Xrays are really good handling cars (at least on rubbers - we don't run foams).

settled.
 

I just won a brand new tc5 on t' bay, so I guess that's what I'm getting. :)

Nice one
i currently use the tc5 and it excellent car for me as my last car is tc4 so no lookin back now :thumbsup:

Which version you get? The rubber or foam version

good question :lol:

I should find out tommorrow when it (hopefully) arrives.

there are no wheels or tyres with the kit, and it'll probably be quite a while before I actually assemble it, as I'm enjoying the B44 too much.

send it my way, i'll assemble it for ya :thumbsup: :p

Noooo, let dime bar do it, it'll be lighter than kit because he'll miss most of the screws out :p only joking dimey.

If ur going to run lipo you will need up to 300g to put on the car. My bog standard outdoor car needed 218g on it for BRCA nationals, and when i used my lightweight mod car i needed over 350g!