12-20-2005, 05:26 PM
Here's the 10MB .WMV file location:
http://pages.ripco.net/~kenji/mini/
We recently purchased a Mini Cooper M03L to race at IRP. We raced it bone stock this past weekend. We got 13 laps and the guys with the better ones got 17 laps. We met Ken Pepe that day at Intense Raceway Park. He's the king of the Mini's. He's expected to place very well at the TCS race at Trackside in Wisconsin.
IRP is using the same rules as the TCS rules. the 2006 rules can be found here:
http://www.tamiyausa.com/tcs_races/rules.php#mini
Currently IRP is running under the 2005 rules which placed FWD and RWD cars together. That's the only difference.
The TCS rules keep it pretty fair and you don't need to sink a ton of dough into the car to be competitive.
Shane at IRP tallied it up and if you already have your radio transmitter and a receiver it's under 175 bucks to have a car that can be competitive. that's the car and the hop-ups total.
here's what I know that makes the car competitive, anything else is just bling, beefiness, and handling issues:
Do this:
Replace the stock plastic bearings with real bearings
Replace the stock ball diff with either the Tamiya Manta Ray or the TA03 ball diff
Make a paste of Mothers car polish and motor spray, just a wee bit thinner than toothpaste. Use a motor with two cells connected to it and make the stock Johnson/Mabuchi motor a slave motor using fuel tubing connecting each motor together. Jam a bunch of your slurry mix into the motor and run it for 1/2 hour, all the while adding more and more slurry mix. Then when done clean out the motor with fresh motor spray and then blow it dry. Reinstall it.
the difference between the MO3 and MO3L is that the MO3L is less twitchy on long straigtaways.
There's a good forum regarding Mini Coopers at rctech.net
The forum for Trackside in the rctech.net website also has alot of their mini guys posting. Trackside has a lot of mini drivers.
Our new Mini is so fun, I had Shane order me another. I'm also thinking about entering ourselves in the Mini Cooper class at the big TCS race held in March up at Trackside.
I just ordered the TA03 ball diff for mine, I installed real bearings this past Sunday. I did the slurry mix on the comm and brushes too, last night. So I can't wait to get back to IRP to see the performance difference.
with the car bone stock it was difficult to roll it, but I'm geussing next time we run it we'll have a ton more speed and see lots of rolling!
http://pages.ripco.net/~kenji/mini/
We recently purchased a Mini Cooper M03L to race at IRP. We raced it bone stock this past weekend. We got 13 laps and the guys with the better ones got 17 laps. We met Ken Pepe that day at Intense Raceway Park. He's the king of the Mini's. He's expected to place very well at the TCS race at Trackside in Wisconsin.
IRP is using the same rules as the TCS rules. the 2006 rules can be found here:
http://www.tamiyausa.com/tcs_races/rules.php#mini
Currently IRP is running under the 2005 rules which placed FWD and RWD cars together. That's the only difference.
The TCS rules keep it pretty fair and you don't need to sink a ton of dough into the car to be competitive.
Shane at IRP tallied it up and if you already have your radio transmitter and a receiver it's under 175 bucks to have a car that can be competitive. that's the car and the hop-ups total.
here's what I know that makes the car competitive, anything else is just bling, beefiness, and handling issues:
Do this:
Replace the stock plastic bearings with real bearings
Replace the stock ball diff with either the Tamiya Manta Ray or the TA03 ball diff
Make a paste of Mothers car polish and motor spray, just a wee bit thinner than toothpaste. Use a motor with two cells connected to it and make the stock Johnson/Mabuchi motor a slave motor using fuel tubing connecting each motor together. Jam a bunch of your slurry mix into the motor and run it for 1/2 hour, all the while adding more and more slurry mix. Then when done clean out the motor with fresh motor spray and then blow it dry. Reinstall it.
the difference between the MO3 and MO3L is that the MO3L is less twitchy on long straigtaways.
There's a good forum regarding Mini Coopers at rctech.net
The forum for Trackside in the rctech.net website also has alot of their mini guys posting. Trackside has a lot of mini drivers.
Our new Mini is so fun, I had Shane order me another. I'm also thinking about entering ourselves in the Mini Cooper class at the big TCS race held in March up at Trackside.
I just ordered the TA03 ball diff for mine, I installed real bearings this past Sunday. I did the slurry mix on the comm and brushes too, last night. So I can't wait to get back to IRP to see the performance difference.
with the car bone stock it was difficult to roll it, but I'm geussing next time we run it we'll have a ton more speed and see lots of rolling!