NIRC. Chit Chat

[thzero]

Since my one servo blew up with a cloud of smoke, think I am going to try this one...

Savox SV-1272SG Digital "Monster Torque" Metal Gear Servo (High Voltage) [SAV-SV-1272SG] | Radios & Accessories - A Main Hobbies

416oz of torque, speed is good, and it has waterproofing... and 50 bucks less than the 7950 from Hitec, albeit with a bit less torque.

[badhoopty]

Originally Posted by Die-Laughing

I just found out!

badhoopty! Jason wins the Class2 NIRC Top Truck Trophy! A 4th place C2 finish is pretty impressive! you earned it man!



Johnny with the 6th place finish! Very nice!
Rick with the 19th place finish! Awesome!
Chris with the 20th place finish! Sweet!
Trey with the 23rd place finish! Coool!
Robert with the 36th place finish! Radical!

thx buddy! me and liz left at 8am, had bfast at bob evans, then took non-toll roads all the way back, and made it home right at 4:30. not at all a bad trip for how epic that spot was.

ps. if i could go back and do one thing differently... i wouldnt have smoked before course 3 & 4...

gonna start a teardown of timmy tonight, need to read up on the 4link thread and see if i can tune my geometry a little bit better. seeing ricks and kano's jeeps work like they did with the upper chassis link mounts raised up made me a believer.

epic fun times.

[badhoopty]

Originally Posted by johnnyh66

Wow, I'm just now getting out of bed!

i just got home!

its gonna be interesting to see how.badly i lunched the ring and pinion on mintberry crunch. hopefully its just the inner bearing, if not i at least have the gears here at home that i didnt pack because i thought "naw, i wont ever need ring and pinion gears..."

;)

NOT AT ALL liking being back here in chicago. me and liz drove through alot of sweet little towns on the way back that are much more my speed. too bad there ain't any big time ad agencies around those parts.

[sally1800]

Originally Posted by badhoopty

NOT AT ALL liking being back here in chicago. me and liz drove through alot of sweet little towns on the way back that are much more my speed. too bad there ain't any big time ad agencies around those parts.

Was there any in Co. ?

[Mega Fattie]

Originally Posted by badhoopty

gonna start a teardown of timmy tonight, need to read up on the 4link thread and see if i can tune my geometry a little bit better. seeing ricks and kano's jeeps work like they did with the upper chassis link mounts raised up made me a believer.

epic fun times.

Care to share a link to that thread?

[Die-Laughing]

Originally Posted by Mega Fattie

Care to share a link to that thread?

3/4 Link for Dummies

[thzero]

Originally Posted by Die-Laughing

3/4 Link for Dummies

Thanks... I'm a dummy on that.

[Mega Fattie]

That is an informative read.

I messed with my links and got everything sorted out. I also have some new ideas for the chassis because of the links for dummies thread too.

[sally1800]

Any of you guy s win any cool prizes

[Die-Laughing]

They did a raffle and everyone there won a prize until all the tickets were called, and then they put all the tickets back into the bucket and then everyone won a prize again. Few people won TF2's, rc4wd trailers, mayhem wheels, light bars, t-shirts, all the sponsor supplied stuff.. Trophies.. Shit load of prizes.. A shit load.

[thzero]

Originally Posted by sally1800

Any of you guy s win any cool prizes

Nope, not at all... no prizes were given out!

[Mega Fattie]

What did you guys win?

[Die-Laughing]

Chris won a new GelandeII truck and a rc4wd motor, I won a crawlerdad led light bar, t-shirt, stickers.. Jason won pit bull tires, rc4wd wheels, etc.. Trey won decals, shirts, gripfab spools, scale parts.. Johnny won mouse pad, etc

I forget.

We all got driver bags with decals, lanyards, diff. cover key chains, etc.

[Mega Fattie]

Man! Those are cool things to get. That comp seems like it was legit.

[Die-Laughing]

Yeah, it was legit.

They gave away prizes for at least 2 hours straight. Like I said, they pulled 2 rounds of tickets. Everyone literally won something twice. What they gave away was random. One guy pulled something out of the pile of goodies, another guy called a number and that person won that prize. There were a lot of vendors that gave $250 & $500 worth of product and title sponsor (rc4wd) had $1000's worth of stuff and all of that was what was given away. Tons of stuff.

The did a great job with the whole thing. Pig roast one night that was well worth the money. Pizza night was good. Everyone there was like minded cool people. The terrain was insane. We were in like a huge rock/forest canyon looking thing that was like 100ft to get to the top.. Flowing stream, huge boulders.. Nice weather all weekend. It was the shit.

[Mega Fattie]

Meanwhile....Illinois remained one huge stinking garbage pile. Welcome back! Obama wants his money.

[BAD 1]

Man I had a BLAST! It was so cool watching you guys participate in some Kick Ass events and drive through the most EXTREAM courses known to man. I know I did not do good but I felt like a winner by just being a part of NIRC. Thanks for the experience.

[badhoopty]

the spot was epic. big canopy above and just beautiful everywhere you looked.

[Die-Laughing]

I'm sure we all have our battle scars. I know of a few bombed differentials, busted axle shafts, broken outputs, grenaded bearings, etc.

Here's mine.. This body was un-run before this event. Many scratches, busted fender, gouges, etc.


Drove off a cliff at one point while Jason, Liz & I were putting a beating on our trucks on sunday. Took a hit on the rear spare tire cage work. I like the battle scar, might keep it like that.


I sheared an axle pin half way through the final C2 course, 3 wheeled it as far as I could from there. Good times.

[Mega Fattie]

How are you guys liking the curries? Does the aluminum get hung up at all on rocks?