TORCH Winter series supported by X-Factory UK Round 4 Sunday 2nd March
 

Looking forward to TORCH Winter R4 this Sunday. For me it will be first race of 2014 and first since November. Looking forward to a good turnout and great banter as always.

Looking forward to catching up pal.

See you on Sunday,
James.

Same for me. First run of the new year. Certainly looking forward to it.
See you all there.

weather is looking promising too

Book me in - LOL
:)

im planing on being there just cant marshall still on crutches after knee op

Ill do a couple of marshall stints for you martin :) .

I also can't wait till sunday , cars now had a proper full strip down ( after my dissapointing drive on sunday !:( ) needless to say it should be back on form , hopefully less crashing from me !!.

Are there any shops going ?:)

Martin be good to see you back this quickly since your op!

Is the fact that you are on crutches going to make a difference?:p:woot:LOL

It will if I give him a nudge during our qualifiers.:drool:

Will we be able to buy tyres and burgers on the day? :D

^^^ what steve said , will there be any tires available this weekend , just reallised its another all day meeting :)

If the weather stays dry who know we may need BB Whites! :o

i ran schumacher yellows yesterday in the final on my DB1 even got some grip roll lol

Gents there will be the normal food vender on site from 7am.

I spoke to Chris and he said he was on Schumacher yellow. Do not forget though that the all day winter rounds are control tyre of Ballistic Buggy tyres wet or dry.

Hi Shaun

Probably best to PM Steve so he can put some aside if he has any.

Cheers

Rob

Can we make a heat of trucks,? I've managed to fix my short course and is ready to go. So come on and bring them trucks out.

I will bring mine out if you bring yours :thumbsup: Truck that is. Triple class time!

will do cheers rob :thumbsup:

Good luck with that mate.

I will beat you all with my new toy:-

http://rcracingtv.net/wp-content/upl...olled-1102.jpg

I've decided to close the shop and come down for this one. So all you 2WD guys can be safe in the knowledge that you will not be last :D

Looking forward to this one.. hopefully my driving is better than the last time I was down. But not so hopeful as not raced in a while! fingers cross the weather is half decent!!!

Can anyone recommend a Battery I can use for Charging on site? I figure I may need it on Sunday :)

I've got rid of the nasty rtr rubber and got the Schumachers yellows you recommended Tony so I'll be there with with the ST ready to race! Andy's just gone out and got himself a truck as well... We'll have more trucks than buggies if this carries on! ;)

What tyres were you guys saying to use in the wet? I thought you'd said losi but can find any on t'interweb...

Hi Andy, on the truck we were using Losi step pin in red compound in the wet or damp conditions, I have a brand new pair in my bag ready for you on Sunday.
Don't forget that this Sunday is control tyre on the rear of your 2wd buggy, ballistic buggy greens when wet and ballistic buggy white's when dry.

Hi

If you are buying new you ideally you want a leisure/marine battery with a deep charge/discharge cycle. Standard car 12V batteries aren't really designed for the continuous discharge we impose on them whilst charging our cells from them and don't tend to last very long.

Anything from around 80A/Hours upwards will be more than enough for a days racing. If there are more than one of you using it you might want to go a little bigger just to be on the safe side as 110A ones are not a lot more expensive. I find caravan shops often sell them at a decent price or plenty of on-line places. Halfords do them but I have always found them more expensive. You will need a proper charger for it though as a standard car 12V charger will kill it fairly quickly.

However if you have a old 12V car battery lying around then I would use that until it dies.

Rob

Thanks Rob, will go hunting for one this afternoon :D

Am looking forward to Sundays races will be cool to see if there is SC stuff racing.. kinda fancy getting myself one :D

I did hear talk of the ballistic on Sunday Tony... Should of been paying closer attention, I've only got ballistic greens! Doh! I bought some whites from a Steve on Sunday but I thought they were Schumacher, I'll have to check!

I'm Dean btw... Andy is the other one! ;) I had the truck on Sunday!... I'm gonna start signing off on my posts to prevent confusion! :)

Squidzilla, I've been using a secondhand battery I got from Silverlake for £20 for almost six months and is been fine... Never managed to run it down, but I think you can pick up leisure batteries for about £80 so depends what you prefer.

Dean! :)

Loving the springy bumper Fribbers. Should it not be green though?

That's the attitude. Y'know, out of the 4 times I've taken my truck, could you guess how many times I've been the only one with their truck? If I sound like it pissed me off, then I sound correct.

Don't fret though, the truck is undergoing a mod or two and shall return to give you bastards a mobile chicane, the likes of which you've not known since last I attended.

Ha ha, don't think we've met yet I assume you're Lionel, you won't miss me I'll be the unintentional second half of that mobile chicane due to being lapped by Dan and Steve! and Andy won't be there this week so I should be more easily distinguishable! ;)

I thought you guys were like Ant and Dec - you only ever see them together and no-one knows which one is which:p:p:p

You should worry - somebody mistook me for Mikey Scott once:o

Hopefully see you tomorrow

Rob

Have a great time everybody - I can't make it - Enjoy

That I am.

I won't be there this week either, I have a big split in my windscreen, So, until that's done, I'm going nowhere.

Truck mod should be done by next weekend though, and It'll want testing :lol:

Yeah yeah, I know what you're all thinking, Why bother? Believe me, that thought has crossed my mind.

Keep the faith Lionel and push on with that mod... I might not be
around next week but there seems to be a few of us now so it will happen at some stage!!

Also would any of you good men be able to show me how to break in/set a ball diff in my 210 buggy tomorrow as I have taken out the RTR gear diff as I have a sneaking suspicion that it may as dry as a nuns ***** and I have no diff oil or seals (Will be visiting MB models shortly after writing this) :)

hey dean :woot:, i have some diff oil in my hauller , if you want some , if soo come and see me in the morning

Hey Shaun... Somebody knows my name!! :thumbsup:

I've put in the ball diff but if for some reason that doesn't work could attempt filling the gear diff... cheers buddy!

cool :thumbsup: , who could forget you dean :woot::p