wdavidhicks
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Kwong and I were the odd couple today. We wanted to run nitros but his only running vehicle was an NTC3 and I only own the Maxx.
He suggested an upper parking lot by the Aquatics Center in Federal Way. A nice long stretch of flat parking area for his road car and a steep rutted hill that runs up under the power lines about fifty feet away where I could run my truck.
He had a minor electrical problem with his starter box, but nothing that couldn't be fixed with a trusty pair of needlenose. The parking lot was okay but it would have been a lot better if four guys with brooms showed up about an hour ahead of time. The car would hit small pebbles, making a pinging noise, causing it to pitch and yaw as he hit speeds around 40mph.
I practiced some hill climbing with the stock chevron tread tires. I still have stiff bashing and jumping springs on the shocks, and even though I had moved the shock mounts to the outer holes for a lower ride I was still all over the place trying to make high-speed hill climbs. The suspension just wasn't articulating enough. It was still a lot of fun. And it always impresses the bikers, hikers and dog-walkers.
We left that place and went over to a business park side street to see how fast Kwong's NTC3 could really scream with his super-modified Novarossi.
I didn't get the camera out until this point. He wanted a few tuning passes before I got some video footage of a blur. He's got the Venom speed meter on it. It says 55mph. Sweet! One more needle tweak and one more pass without the body and he's ready for me to take some moving footage.
This street is perfectly smooth with very few stray pebbles or imperfections. One place in the road had been trenched across for a sewer and then patched. The car would get squirrelly over this patch if you hit it in the right place.
I got the camera in hand waiting for Kevin to put the body on. He's lookin' for a good reading from the Venom speed meter before we roll the take.
A block down the road he turns the car around and nails the gas. No sluggishness, no bogging, no misfires or detonation. Just the satisfying scream of a well-tuned nitro.
As he crosses a bad spot in that filled trench the car pitches up and sideways, then grabs a corner and does a spectacular sixty-foot cartwheel past us to land on the sidewalk.
The engine was still running. The cooling head didn't get scuffed up all. (Even without zipties.) Critical damage, though, has indeed been sustained.
Oh yeah... 57 mph!
Once he gets his truck going again we'll have the famous Truckzilla vs. SuperMaxx competition.
He suggested an upper parking lot by the Aquatics Center in Federal Way. A nice long stretch of flat parking area for his road car and a steep rutted hill that runs up under the power lines about fifty feet away where I could run my truck.
He had a minor electrical problem with his starter box, but nothing that couldn't be fixed with a trusty pair of needlenose. The parking lot was okay but it would have been a lot better if four guys with brooms showed up about an hour ahead of time. The car would hit small pebbles, making a pinging noise, causing it to pitch and yaw as he hit speeds around 40mph.
I practiced some hill climbing with the stock chevron tread tires. I still have stiff bashing and jumping springs on the shocks, and even though I had moved the shock mounts to the outer holes for a lower ride I was still all over the place trying to make high-speed hill climbs. The suspension just wasn't articulating enough. It was still a lot of fun. And it always impresses the bikers, hikers and dog-walkers.
We left that place and went over to a business park side street to see how fast Kwong's NTC3 could really scream with his super-modified Novarossi.
I didn't get the camera out until this point. He wanted a few tuning passes before I got some video footage of a blur. He's got the Venom speed meter on it. It says 55mph. Sweet! One more needle tweak and one more pass without the body and he's ready for me to take some moving footage.
This street is perfectly smooth with very few stray pebbles or imperfections. One place in the road had been trenched across for a sewer and then patched. The car would get squirrelly over this patch if you hit it in the right place.
I got the camera in hand waiting for Kevin to put the body on. He's lookin' for a good reading from the Venom speed meter before we roll the take.
A block down the road he turns the car around and nails the gas. No sluggishness, no bogging, no misfires or detonation. Just the satisfying scream of a well-tuned nitro.
As he crosses a bad spot in that filled trench the car pitches up and sideways, then grabs a corner and does a spectacular sixty-foot cartwheel past us to land on the sidewalk.
The engine was still running. The cooling head didn't get scuffed up all. (Even without zipties.) Critical damage, though, has indeed been sustained.
Oh yeah... 57 mph!
Once he gets his truck going again we'll have the famous Truckzilla vs. SuperMaxx competition.
