I tried racing mine this weekend for the first time, wasn't overly sucessfull, but most of it was my fault. Should say that I decided to run it for the first time at a BRCA end of season final.
I bought Fastrax wheels for it, unfortunately fitting them makes the wheelbase to wide for BRCA events.
I then bought Kyosho wheels, which meant width was OK, but the front wheels did not clear steering track links. Had to put washer inside wheel hex and move link to inner hole on knuckle.
Stripped car down to do some work and forgot to put plastic bit back in motor mount which wrote of the spur gear.
Luckily I go racing with someone who is very inventive so I'm now using an Associated spur gear with a little modification to make it fit.
On the day I managed a practise and 4 minutes of one heat as slipper clutch was too loose and final. The only race which I completed was the final and to be honest it went well considering it was on the wrong tyres and had way too much grip.
I'm not ready to give up on it yet, going to try some mods and see how it goes.
Steve
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