SCRC proudly presents Comp #4 in our indoor series. This is the season ending comp and we are back where we started.
Naperville HobbyTown USA
2827 Aurora Avenue
Naperville, IL 60540
April 5 2008
Sign-in starts at 12:15
Drivers Meeting @ 1pm with Crawling following after.
The Concrete section has had some renovation (more area to crawl not realy an expansion) and the rock area will be changed for this comp.
As normal this will be a 2.2 comp.
Admission is FREE
The store will have a good supply of crawling supplies and rc4wd upgrade parts.
Please make sure your truck meets tech before you sign-in, I dont want to turn anyone away. (PONCH)
Ponch Wrote:Josh...WTH else is there left to put on that truck? dannnng lol. Body??
The new body turned out OK. LOL. I am not much of a painter....gotta refine that skill, but the body is not a total embarassment. Might post a pic before Wrench Day....gotta find the camera.
In terms of what else I could add....well....I upped the steering servo to a 200oz, and added aluminum C's and Knuckles to support the added servo torque. I also added a simple small little aluminum servo arm for that steering.
I am looking forward to the comp and Wrench Day, but I did NOT like the 1+ hour washing the red off of my tires after practice today. I got it all off. PALMOLIVE DISH SOAP took it off....and now the M3 compound is ULTRA tacky. The new steering servo was definitely nice. 30% more power....NICE.
Jeep_Guy Wrote:I am looking forward to the comp and Wrench Day, but I did NOT like the 1+ hour washing the red off of my tires after practice today. I got it all off. PALMOLIVE DISH SOAP took it off....
Josh (or everyone for that matter)
Found an easy way to get the red off last night.
Take the tires off your rims.
Put in sink.
Put a huge squirt of dish soap in there with the tires and fill with scolding hot water till the tires are submerged completely.
Let sit for 15-30 minutes.
Get in there, rub the tires a little bit and rinse off. The red will be gone.
I don't know if it had anything to do with the soap I used, but it was Ivory Ultra.
1. Plug wheel holes with tape.
2. Get running water warm/hot.
3. Get tires wet and squirt some Palmolive on the tires.
4. Scrub with old toothbrush
5. Rinse.
It all comes off. I think that the dish soap is mild enough to not damage anything. IF I was to remove the tires from the wheels, it would have taken even LONGER. 64 Screws to take them off......64 to put them back. I guess that it is the price to play.
I really need to find the wife's camera to post the "new look". This new body is sharp....if only I had better painting skills.
Yeah.....the MSD rims run 64 screws per set. It takes a while.
Put a Proline Helios on this time. Painted Metallic Black & Metallic Silver. I need to learn to use the liquid mask. The tape was a bit prone to bleeds. IF this was a buggy or monster truck, I would be more concerned, but this one is gonna take a beating, so the flaws are not killing me.
Just finished the little tweak of new AL servo arms on both the dig and the steering. ALSO fixed my ESC programming. I was rolling backwards out of throttle...the brake was not working correctly. A few profile resets on the ESC, and the brakes are back. That should keep me from fiddling on the radio side.
I am looking forward to Saturday....get to fine tune the small changes. I was VERY happy with the results of the bigger changes yesterday. I even felt empowerd since the comp to build some custom brackets. The REIGN chassis really did not have nice places for body mounts...and no real material to drill into.....so I built brackets out of 1/8" aluminum stock. They almost look like they belong on this thing. YES....I actually built something.
you guys cry too much about a little red dust, wait till we get outside and you have mud/clay dog... to deal with...Crawlers are meant to be dirty, its shows you have a good time!!!!!
