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Flameninja00
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So, Uh, monkey. Didja Win?:tophat:
HeartBreak
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Yeah monkey; what's the point tally??
I'm getting ready to leave here in about another 30mins - I"ll see you guys up there soon.
-Michael
-Michael
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hb1111
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i think its classified...their not talking
HeartBreak
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Either that, or that bail money wasn't enough!
I enjoyed myself. The track was big and well layed out and there was a huge turn out for it. Also nice being able to meet Jet and Monkey for the first time, always cool to put a face with the people I talk to all the time on here - something I don't get to do very often.
I also managed to bust my FG Monster Truck as well, just waiting for Monkey to send or post his pictures he took!
-Michael
I also managed to bust my FG Monster Truck as well, just waiting for Monkey to send or post his pictures he took!
-Michael
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- #31
Wow, what a weekend! Where do I start?
Got down there about 6:30 AM Saturday morning, got myself set-up and take the truggy out for it's real maiden voyage to do some practice laps and get used to the rig. Second lap around, the flippin' thing goes out of control, WOT, takes the big jump, sails over the outer birm and lands square on the top of some poor guy's E-Z Up. Thankfully, he was understanding, I was apologetic and there was no damage to his stuff. How's that for starting off?
The Saturday races were all qualifying. There were 25 heats with 4 qualifying races per heat. Each race heat was 5 minutes with a 5 minute warm-up round. Do the math, that's over 16 hours right there, not to mention the typical delays and what-not because of transponder problems and Saturday was a LOOOONNNNNGGGG day! I don't think we got out of there until about 2:30 AM and after finally finding a Taco Bell that was open and shoving some tacos down our throats, didn't hit the hay until closer to 3:30 AM.
Sunday's mains went much faster and I was done racing by 11:30 AM. My results: placed in the top 87 in buggies (coming in at 87th) and placed 2nd to last in truggy (only because the last place guy DNS). I believe I was a bit unrealistic in hoping to place in a C or D main! I think my buggy main was the K main and my truggy main was the I main. I did end the truggy main on a high note that Woodie got to see and again it proved a great book-end for the weekend. Come over the last little table-top headed for the turn to the straight away. I'm pointed right at where the scorers are, land off the table-top and then WAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH, truggy goes WOT like a raped-ape right into the scissor lift the scorers were on!
So, let me take just a moment to share some tips for you guys:
1. Mount the ON/OFF switch on your rig the RIGHT WAY! You should move the switch UP to turn it on, not off! Turns out, the reason I lost my truggy both times was because, when I landed a jump, the compression of the chassis was enough to move the switch up and thus, since I'm an idiot, turned the RX off. One of Jet's buddies (who can absolutely drive) pointed it out to me Saturday afternoon and I think, ah, I can make it through the mains and take care of it when I get home. How's that for predicting the future?
2. CHARGE YOUR RX PACKS AFTER EACH HEAT! I did not finish 1 minute of my second qualifier on the truggy because my RX pack dumped and the failsafe kicked in (beats it going out-of-control again, though!)
3. BRING EXTRA SERVOS! Thankfully, I did and I needed them. Truggy ate a throttle servo (it fried a brand-new HiTEC) and my steering servo (HiTEC, but not new) shredded the gears (and it's a metal-geared servo to boot!)
4. If you are bringing any aersol cans, say of JP-1 air filter oil, WD-40 and the like, make sure you put their little caps on. I didn't and something rolled onto the top of my can of JP-1 and I now have a nice coat of air filter oil over a good bit of my other stuff and the back of my Tahoe!
5. Don't be afraid to ask questions. I did and I have no doubt I bugged the poop out of Jet and his buddies, but I learned more in one weekend watching and asking questions than I did in the last year of trying to figure it out on my own. One of Jet's buddies took the time to help tune my buggy and truggy (both run Hyper .21's) and they both never ran as good as they did. I was also turned on to Byrons 30% fuel because the truggy could never get dialed-in until he tried a tank of Byron's and it ran awesome! I am in his debt and Jet's as well. They both took a lot of time to help the short-bus kid get his stuff running right and helped pit me as well.
6. When someone walks up behind you, says something like, "hey, Monkey Wrench!" and you turn around to see a 6'5" guy that looks just like the character Woody from "Toy Story", it's actually our Woodie making a special trip to watch and show off his 1/5th scale monster and then promptly drive it right into the blade of a bulldozer! You know how you kind of get these ideas of how someone looks? Well, I was WAY OFF with Michael! I really appreciate him taking the time to make the trip! It was great meeting you, Woodie!
Overall, I give the weekend TWO THUMBS UP, even if I didn't perform as well as I had hoped! Sure, by Sunday my head was pounding because of all the nitro fumes and the sounds of all the engines winding up. Sure, I was covered in nitro exhaust and oil and dirt and sure, it was cold BUT MAN WAS IT FUN! I had a blast start-to-finish and I cannot thank Jet and his buddies ENOUGH for putting up with my silly ass all weekend! I have no doubt on the ride back to Indy those guys were grilling Jet on why he invited me because it's not like I made any real contribution! Let's put it this way, I have a way to go before I can apply for membership to "Team Stanglehold Racing"!
There is one great story that I want to share, though. One of Jet's buddy's lost the use of his left arm and leg due to a motocross accident 14 years ago. Guy is one of the nicest guys I've ever met, personally. He runs a Mugen MBX5T with a V-Spec engine and this thing runs like a spotted dog! What really impressed me, though, is the man has to drive with a stick controller (think RC plane TX's) and he can flat friggin' drive! Left stick is throttle, right is steering. It was just amazing to see how an individual took a possible negative situation life dealt and made it into such a positive one! I just wished he'd of told us he was making a McDonald's run when he did, though! He comes back with a bag of food, we're all starving to death and he just sits there munching on a quarter pounder!
Just a great time, overall! Racing with Jet is always a good day and I always tend to learn something when I'm out with him. I also learned that, next time I do race with him, I'm bringing a huge jug of Beano because next to the nitro fumes burning my eyes and giving me a headache, the man makes it a point to rip spectacular farts that burn your eyebrows off!
Oh, and I will post some pictures tonight when I get home. When I got back to the house, I unloaded the Tahoe, took a shower and laid down on the couch. Next thing I know it's 7:30 PM and the wife is bitching at me to go get the pizzas she ordered (because we can save a whole flippin' dollar by not having them delivered!) Ate and then crashed again!
Got down there about 6:30 AM Saturday morning, got myself set-up and take the truggy out for it's real maiden voyage to do some practice laps and get used to the rig. Second lap around, the flippin' thing goes out of control, WOT, takes the big jump, sails over the outer birm and lands square on the top of some poor guy's E-Z Up. Thankfully, he was understanding, I was apologetic and there was no damage to his stuff. How's that for starting off?
The Saturday races were all qualifying. There were 25 heats with 4 qualifying races per heat. Each race heat was 5 minutes with a 5 minute warm-up round. Do the math, that's over 16 hours right there, not to mention the typical delays and what-not because of transponder problems and Saturday was a LOOOONNNNNGGGG day! I don't think we got out of there until about 2:30 AM and after finally finding a Taco Bell that was open and shoving some tacos down our throats, didn't hit the hay until closer to 3:30 AM.
Sunday's mains went much faster and I was done racing by 11:30 AM. My results: placed in the top 87 in buggies (coming in at 87th) and placed 2nd to last in truggy (only because the last place guy DNS). I believe I was a bit unrealistic in hoping to place in a C or D main! I think my buggy main was the K main and my truggy main was the I main. I did end the truggy main on a high note that Woodie got to see and again it proved a great book-end for the weekend. Come over the last little table-top headed for the turn to the straight away. I'm pointed right at where the scorers are, land off the table-top and then WAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH, truggy goes WOT like a raped-ape right into the scissor lift the scorers were on!
So, let me take just a moment to share some tips for you guys:
1. Mount the ON/OFF switch on your rig the RIGHT WAY! You should move the switch UP to turn it on, not off! Turns out, the reason I lost my truggy both times was because, when I landed a jump, the compression of the chassis was enough to move the switch up and thus, since I'm an idiot, turned the RX off. One of Jet's buddies (who can absolutely drive) pointed it out to me Saturday afternoon and I think, ah, I can make it through the mains and take care of it when I get home. How's that for predicting the future?
2. CHARGE YOUR RX PACKS AFTER EACH HEAT! I did not finish 1 minute of my second qualifier on the truggy because my RX pack dumped and the failsafe kicked in (beats it going out-of-control again, though!)
3. BRING EXTRA SERVOS! Thankfully, I did and I needed them. Truggy ate a throttle servo (it fried a brand-new HiTEC) and my steering servo (HiTEC, but not new) shredded the gears (and it's a metal-geared servo to boot!)
4. If you are bringing any aersol cans, say of JP-1 air filter oil, WD-40 and the like, make sure you put their little caps on. I didn't and something rolled onto the top of my can of JP-1 and I now have a nice coat of air filter oil over a good bit of my other stuff and the back of my Tahoe!
5. Don't be afraid to ask questions. I did and I have no doubt I bugged the poop out of Jet and his buddies, but I learned more in one weekend watching and asking questions than I did in the last year of trying to figure it out on my own. One of Jet's buddies took the time to help tune my buggy and truggy (both run Hyper .21's) and they both never ran as good as they did. I was also turned on to Byrons 30% fuel because the truggy could never get dialed-in until he tried a tank of Byron's and it ran awesome! I am in his debt and Jet's as well. They both took a lot of time to help the short-bus kid get his stuff running right and helped pit me as well.
6. When someone walks up behind you, says something like, "hey, Monkey Wrench!" and you turn around to see a 6'5" guy that looks just like the character Woody from "Toy Story", it's actually our Woodie making a special trip to watch and show off his 1/5th scale monster and then promptly drive it right into the blade of a bulldozer! You know how you kind of get these ideas of how someone looks? Well, I was WAY OFF with Michael! I really appreciate him taking the time to make the trip! It was great meeting you, Woodie!
Overall, I give the weekend TWO THUMBS UP, even if I didn't perform as well as I had hoped! Sure, by Sunday my head was pounding because of all the nitro fumes and the sounds of all the engines winding up. Sure, I was covered in nitro exhaust and oil and dirt and sure, it was cold BUT MAN WAS IT FUN! I had a blast start-to-finish and I cannot thank Jet and his buddies ENOUGH for putting up with my silly ass all weekend! I have no doubt on the ride back to Indy those guys were grilling Jet on why he invited me because it's not like I made any real contribution! Let's put it this way, I have a way to go before I can apply for membership to "Team Stanglehold Racing"!
There is one great story that I want to share, though. One of Jet's buddy's lost the use of his left arm and leg due to a motocross accident 14 years ago. Guy is one of the nicest guys I've ever met, personally. He runs a Mugen MBX5T with a V-Spec engine and this thing runs like a spotted dog! What really impressed me, though, is the man has to drive with a stick controller (think RC plane TX's) and he can flat friggin' drive! Left stick is throttle, right is steering. It was just amazing to see how an individual took a possible negative situation life dealt and made it into such a positive one! I just wished he'd of told us he was making a McDonald's run when he did, though! He comes back with a bag of food, we're all starving to death and he just sits there munching on a quarter pounder!
Just a great time, overall! Racing with Jet is always a good day and I always tend to learn something when I'm out with him. I also learned that, next time I do race with him, I'm bringing a huge jug of Beano because next to the nitro fumes burning my eyes and giving me a headache, the man makes it a point to rip spectacular farts that burn your eyebrows off!
Oh, and I will post some pictures tonight when I get home. When I got back to the house, I unloaded the Tahoe, took a shower and laid down on the couch. Next thing I know it's 7:30 PM and the wife is bitching at me to go get the pizzas she ordered (because we can save a whole flippin' dollar by not having them delivered!) Ate and then crashed again!
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I'm sure they were happy to have entertainment!
Sounds like you guys had a great weekend, can't wait to see the pics!
Sounds like a great time actually! I wish I lived closer to you jokers so I could actually meet you for a race. Monkey Man... I would definitely be in good company if you were there. I can't drive a lick either! LOL I have all the nice equipment.... but when you have a CRT and a guy in a TMaxx is running better lap times than you..... you need hire a driver. LOL Glad you guys had fun, and can't wait to see the pictures!
Tom
Tom
TalonOne
Hardcore RCTalk User
Sounds like a great time!!!
can't wait for the pics.....Monkey you sound like me....everytime I go to do something....I have forgotten something....and it turns into something else...
At least your a good sport......for a short bus kid.
can't wait for the pics.....Monkey you sound like me....everytime I go to do something....I have forgotten something....and it turns into something else...
At least your a good sport......for a short bus kid.
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hb1111
Guest
oh my god WOT 2 times thats like a nightmare it self....with any kind of racing you'll always have to get the bugs out sounds like eveyone had fun....when i saw the results about the truggy i was like hell yeah he finished 2nd... then i read on...lmao well at least you finished i had the same prob. losing power...it sucks big time...Damn Woodies 6'5 damn i wonder if he can fight...ufc...lol
jetmechG550
RCTalk VIP
Good time was had by all. WoodiE it was great to meet you. Sorry I was a little wound up, I get like that when I'm not running well. I had a less than stellar run but will say this, the competition was tight. In 1/8th there was like 60 buggies within 20 seconds of one another. In truggy the top 10 were within like 7 seconds of each other. The track was great, just took too long get groove up.
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I got side-tracked dealing with the wife's laptop, but here's one to wet you're appetite.
The story behind this one: one of Jet's buddy's dropped his modded 528 (check me if I'm wrong, Jet) into his MBX5T for the main he was in. The goal was a back-flip off the big jump.
He didn't quite make it, but not because he didn't have enough clearance. He thought he had enough backwards rotation so he let off the throttle! Had he not, I assure you, he could have easily pulled it off, then some!
I'll post the rest tomorrow. It just takes me some time to pull them off then put them on Photobucket.
The story behind this one: one of Jet's buddy's dropped his modded 528 (check me if I'm wrong, Jet) into his MBX5T for the main he was in. The goal was a back-flip off the big jump.
He didn't quite make it, but not because he didn't have enough clearance. He thought he had enough backwards rotation so he let off the throttle! Had he not, I assure you, he could have easily pulled it off, then some!
I'll post the rest tomorrow. It just takes me some time to pull them off then put them on Photobucket.
TalonOne
Hardcore RCTalk User
Great first pic....thanks for alll your efforts to share this with us.....lemme go dig up the laptop thread and see if I can help out so you can get to the rest of them...;
jetmechG550
RCTalk VIP
That was Steve and his you are correct modded Novarossi 528. The stock 528 is insane in it's own right, but the mod is rediculous! I have video of him toying with it and kept wondering when he was gonna just do it. Once he got squirrelled at the beginning of the race he figured time to play. He actually did a reverse Monkey there, landing upside down turning the switch off!
