Let The Mardave Mayhem Begin
 

:thumbsup: CONFIRMED! :thumbsup:

Sundays 1730 - 1930 (starting 9th October and every Sunday after)
The Scout Hut on Carpenters Down, Basingstoke.
Timing system will be used (if it ever arrives), transponders available £20.00 RCS
Full members £4.00, Free members £6.00, Juniors if accompanied £2.00
Tuck shop, Spares and Power available on site.

*** Only 3 race meetings without BRCA membership allowed. You are welcome to organise your own BRCA, or you can become a member through our club at at the discounted rate of £13, when you become a full club member £30.***

FANTASTIC!
I'll call you later about the carpet.

Can't wait to get racing.

The banger is looking good..

Excellent Banger is nearly ready:p

Can't wait

Isnt it amazing how we are all so keen to smash up our hard earned cash :lol:

And those nicely painted bodies :p

Hey all,

how complete have your kits been? Mine's missing quite a few bits.

The funny thing is the box and bags were all sealed, and it doesn't look like I'm missing any single bag of parts - just odd bits throughout.

I'll check through my shed tomorrow to see if I can bodge something together, otherwise I think my banger racing debut may be delayed a bit.

See ya soon, davey.

Davey,
As far as i'm aware, just a few self tappers were missing from mine.

The box was also sealed and unopened.

Trevor.

Sorry to here that some of you are having problems :thumbdown:. Anyone else having issues? Can I suggest you contact Mardave direct and let me have a list of the missing parts so that I can contact them as well. Also if you are totally unhappy with your kit, I can send the kit back as long as it has not been built, so please check your parts before continuing to build.

Ian,
Real quick/good response from Mardave tonight.
They are putting the bearings in the post.
Thanks, Trevor.

Likewise, a fast response from Mardave promising parts in the post! Cheers for backing us up Ian, its much appreciated.

All the best, d.

... and a bundle of parts arrived in the post today - that's pretty good service, don't ya think? I hope anyone else with missing parts trouble gets sorted fast too.

cheers, d.

All parts arrived, we live in a real world it's how the problems are dealt with that matters, and Mardave resolved this in an fast and communitive way

I got all my bits today and a few extra's. Well done Mardave for recovering in such a positive way.

Thats really impressive service.

Always good to know the support is there.

Hey all,

been working on the banger today. Made a body mount extender so the rear mount will reach the roof of my shells, made a new narrow front body mount so I can use the morris minor shell (the bonnet on the moulding is too narrow for the standard mount), made a front bumper, made an aerial plate.

All extremely rough and thrown together badly - I can't do any prep over the weekend so I decided speed is of the essence this time - I can always tidy or remake stuff later.

Also, blew some paint onto the Austin shell - just some old paint I had knocking around - didn't do much (any) prep so I think it'll be nasty and flakey. Finished off by fitting the new bearings on the back axle, stripping and fettling the steering a bit (so the old knackered servo will almost actually turn it), and made a few suspension tweaks.

I might actually now have something to run on sunday, but it ain't gonna be pretty!

How you all doing with your creations?

Cheers all, davey.

Davenport if I get time today I will be fitting the body, however first outing I might get the mini running, so lots of soldering for me to do.
I will be running 27Mhz RED

I've had much better luck, I'm up and running and the Capri is looking good.
Not set up, but that'll come over practice sessions.

I just need to learn better spraying techniques to repair the body after tomorrow.

Just as a side thought, yesterday LIDL's had a cordless Dremel type tool for £19.99 that looked pretty good if anyones looking for a cheap cordless option.

Hi guys, bit of help needed please! I'm doing the electrics on the mardave, and it mentions capacitors on the motor. Are they in the can? I seem to remember they were years ago? If not, do I actually need them? I have the standard mardave motor with the esc supplied in the kit.

You don't need them

I've just put the kit together with an ESC and soldered straight to the can and it runs very well at present.

Brilliant, thanks guys!! I just didn't want to blow it up before I at least had the chance to smash it up instead!!

Hiya,

just to let you know our first meeting is tonight, 9th October, at around 7.15ish until we kinda finish (probably about 9ish!).

Its just an informal gathering to check the location out and maybe have a bit of a play with the cars.

The Scout Hut on Carpenters Down, Basingstoke.

Cheers,

davey.

Here's the cambridge - anyone want to argue with it? :thumbsup:

Not me...

I will give it a go :p

Hey guys, that was spectacular! Can't wait until next week when we can share paint again!

Cheers,

d.

Great racing guys, can't wait till next week

hey guys, a good website for mardaves is carpetoval.com, kamtec is also an awesome shop to get your car parts from posted usually within 2 days, anyway if you on sunday will make my way across we have a couple of hotrods and minis if you would be able to cater them, also got a wolsley A15/60 shell with windows cut out if anyone wishes to wreck it just needs cutting out :D anyway have had a few kits with bits missing but mardave is awesome with there service lol, anyway guys hope to see most of you sunday

Hey all,

we're racing the mardave's again on Sunday 16th October, time to be confirmed - please check back at the weekend - but its likely to be 1730 - 1930, at the Scout Hut on Carpenters Down, Basingstoke.

We've got some interest in running Mini Stox and Hot Rods. If we have enough entries and time we'll be aiming to run classes for each of these as well as the bangers. Otherwise we'll do our best to combine classes a bit.

Mini Stox - we haven't established club rules yet - so for now we'll base running on the BRCA rules: http://www.brca.org/sites/default/fi...NRULES2011.pdf If you have any problems with these just let us know here.

For hotrods and bangers we're developing our rules based pretty closely around BRCA. Here's the rules we're working with so far:
http://www.basingstokerc.org.uk/page2.html

We're running similar rules and the same cars for both bangers and hotrods, just with contact allowed in bangers and non contact in hotrods.

So, if you've got pretty bodyshells and want to run hotrods - bring'em along!

Cheers for now, davey.

See you there can't wait :p

I'll be there.

Can't wait to run my car for the first time.

Hey guys,

we're starting as close to 5.30 as we can today. We've got lots of people saying they're coming along and maybe several classes so be as ready as you can be so we can play with our toys (sorry, race our tuned machines!!) as much as we can in our limited time!

Normal racing fees apply:

Adult BRCC members: £4
Adult non BRCC members: £6

Junior BRCC members £2
Junior non BRCC members £3

Juniors - 0 to 16 - adult from first new year after 16th birthday.
BRCC = Basingstoke Radio Car Club.
BRCA = British Radio Car Association.

Raceday fees to be paid cash only. It would be helpful if you had correct change for raceway fees when possible, thanks.

See ya later,

d.

Do you need people earlier to help set up at all?

Thanks very much for asking. Today we're trialling the track and timing system properly so a couple of us are going in early to set that lot up and test, so I think we've got it covered for today thanks.

But, it might be useful to have one or two extra sets of hands in future weeks - when we better know what we're doing!

See ya later,

d.

Another great night guys 4.12 sec and 54 laps to beat:p

Hey all, great night - thanks everyone!

Please could those of you with BRCA membership bring their membership numbers with them next time (or PM / email them to me) so I can update the database, thanks.

Cheers all,

d.

What a quality evenings entertainment!

Can't wait for next week.

By the way Davey, I think I may have some of your paint. Would you like it back?:lol:

Cheers Phil, that's kind of ya... but you keep it - your pretty little merc might need it for next week as a reminder of the colour of its enemy! teehee!