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Originally Posted by Andysan
I can see that the consensus then is for a yearly event which is cool if that's what people want I wont try and force my opinion, but I still think the wear and tear on the cars is relatively negligible - sub £40 to replace the belts and stub axles and I'm guessing sub £30 to sort out both diffs. That's £70 split six ways which is less than £13, and if you buy abroad you could halve these costs easily.
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We did three car sets of axles, at £10 a pair = £60, three pairs of diff outdrives at £10 a pair £30, a few uprights and wishbones in the race and testing, rounded a couple of wheels out and trashed two sets of slick tyres, around £100 the lot, I've retired three LiPo packs since the event as the continued cycling finished them off, so abouit £180 perhaps and the bodyshell I had painted is dead so to replace that would be another £30 plus £45 for the painting, I bought several sets of bumper foams to custom make some front and rears, I bought a LiPo protector and some LEDS, a few spare belts and wishbones just in case so abouit another £100 all up, not to mention all the motors (7 in total) which was £70 up in smoke, and a couple of spare ESC's on standby all pre wired up just in case, so another £50 there. Rough total not including the fees for testing and club race days to get it set up, so I blew somewhere in the region of £500 easily, so no matter what car you chose, endurance racing is not cheap.
Have a 6 hour race if you want, maybe a 12 hour race too, but I think 24hrs should be once a year, and that is enough! It was special, let's keep it that way
