NIRC. Chit Chat

[bronc4now]

Pics from scale nationals in denver ..
outdoor concert pavilion in red rocks ..girls working out during the day

[badhoopty]

gary from what i saw, if you used half the throttle 90% of the time you would do better.

i improved my driving a ton by adjusting my throttle expo to have a much more forgiving throttle curve on the bottom end.

did gary tell anybody he drove his c2 off a 10' cliff? i also saw sczerba accidentally launch his c3 off about a 20' cliff and i shrieked like a little girl.

courses were neat, but absolutely brutal. to make time (6 mins/10 gates) you really had to be fast. i chose to just forget at all it was a comp and just try to get through as many gates i could before timing and pointing out, and more times than not i was relieved when the judge said i was done. ;)

[bronc4now]

Ya I'm thinking of going back to brushed in my c2 ..the speed kills me more then helps i think ..and the expo on my remote i can never get right ..lot of things to change ..
i have to take my truck apart and see how bent the rails are from that drop
i beat the crap out of all 3 rigs

[bronc4now]

Another thing the radio strap has to go .went to put winch back on truck with radio hanging strap hit throttle and flew truck into reverse to hit the gate i just tryed so hard not to ..i flet so amateur

[sally1800]

Originally Posted by johnnyh66

R.I.P. N.I.R.C.

Originally Posted by bronc4now

Hey i wanted that sled a while back...why is nirc dead ? I need to comp more going to Denver made me realize how much real practice i need so ..

Originally Posted by bronc4now

As I was taking to the the guy who kicked ass in denver i figured he must be a local..nope MG200 from Oregon..said he comps once a month back home ..i said I wish we can do that back home in Chicago i just go to other people's comps ..sucks....we don't have the spots or people.. nwittc is fun but lacking the proper rules / difficulty to get ready for big comps...all I know is guru's is next and i hope I do alot better there then denver !

I get out and crawl at least two times week. Once is always on my way home from work. Busse is right on the way.

Then I get out into the back yard. Sometimes hit the roselle trail too.

Trenton "MG200" has been this way for a few years. He is also the reason the rules have changed more and more. He is the king of the gray line legal. Lol

[badhoopty]

trenton can also drive... i saw alot of what i consider to be cheater rigs and all the guys running them knew how to drive.

if i was gonna get serious into scale comps, id be building new trucks that push the rules as far as possible.

[badhoopty]

and by cheater rigs i dont mean anything bad... i just mean rigs built more to comp than be totally scale. some of my fav rigs were cheater rigs.

[sally1800]

Originally Posted by badhoopty

and by cheater rigs i dont mean anything bad... i just mean rigs built more to comp than be totally scale. some of my fav rigs were cheater rigs.

Cheater is kinda extreme. I look as scale as there is three ways to build a truck.

Push every rule to the max to make a truck that has a change at winning.
Build a truly scale rig and drive it to have fun. but know your not threre to win

Third build a rig that can a compete with but is still as close to scale as you can but still crawls great.


Alot of guys that bud these comp scale rigs where at one time comp drivers.

Thats where this pushing the rulea come from. No one is cheating. Just shearch for gray spots in the rules to take and push to the max...

[cjanderson3]

"At some point in every racer's life he has to make his peace with cheating. I do not approve of cheating ... at all. Of course, like every successful racer, I differentiate between taking advantage of loopholes in the regulations, stretching the grey areas and outright cheating. In any given racing series I will not start the cheating. If someone else starts it, I will appeal to them and to the officials to stop it. If my efforts do not succeed, then I'll show them how it is done ...."
-- Carroll Smith, Drive to Win

[talmond]

Originally Posted by badhoopty

and by cheater rigs i dont mean anything bad... i just mean rigs built more to comp than be totally scale. some of my fav rigs were cheater rigs.

There fun trucks to drive big 1.9 trucks with narrow bodies and minimal bumpers and over hangs are the best.

[bronc4now]

I did have a good time rock racing in denver my yeti did me good except my esc setup issue that I fixed now..so now I want to build a soild axle racer I have some parts sitting around i was collecting for a rock bouncer that i lost interest in.. and i won a set of voodoo tires so it was meant to be ..looking forward to making a new cage




yo todd any more word about a rock racing track in rockford ?

[bronc4now]

U4RC 1.9 vs 2.2 soild axle ?
thinking 1.9 would be cool for g6 type stuff also ...i have some research to do....i also have xr width axles waiting so I'm not sure where that would fit best under ? 1.9 might work?

[johnnyh66]

I was thinking of putting longer shocks and different tires kn my foff rig to run the U4 in Denver.

[johnnyh66]

I'm out for ECSC.
Zero, we need to talk about the camper...

Kinda doubt I'll make GURU's either

[talmond]

Originally Posted by johnnyh66

I'm out for ECSC.
Zero, we need to talk about the camper...

Kinda doubt I'll make GURU's either

Dang Johnny your Rc mojo is gone. Pretty sure you need to come drive trucks in Rockford to just have fun

[johnnyh66]

Yeah, I think I'm pretty much done.
I have no plans on finishing Hera or the other 3 new rigs I started this season anytime soon... maybe over the winter.
I'll probably still go to the lakefront with Melons but other than that... I doubt it.

[JHTreyIII]

Originally Posted by johnnyh66

Maybe we should do a gtg before you leave Trey and I can return the sled.

Yeah sounds good. Maybe we could just do like a Saturday evening thing, meet in rosemont at the Hofbrau House and eat and drink some cold beers? It doesn't have to be a toy truck GTG. I bet ol Ricky-poo would drive down and meet us. I haven't seen that guy in a while. He might not be the only one interested in beers and brats, heck any NIRC folks could come and chill for a bit. Whatcha thinks?

[johnnyh66]

That sounds good... but why Iowa?

[JHTreyIII]

Because I live in Kansas.

[JHTreyIII]

My house is 49 miles from Evanston according to google maps. I was trying to think of something between us.