patelladragger

yeah, they will buy it. And the lhs will display it on the front door cause they know they will double their engine sales once people start hacking them up trying to become "'lil' Ritcheys"

But hey, even if you don't tell us any "crucial secrets" I'd be the first one in line to get it.

jason102276

i would love to know the basics i kinda know whats going on inside the engine and i have seen the inside of rtu but to be able to know the hows and whys means everything

i know some guys near me that do mods but they will only tell me so much

slammer

Hey bob, i'm thinking of dusting off the yoke and coming to larry's on friday. Whats the turnout been for 1/12.

GREGG L.

RCsilly

Hey Gregg,
I didn't make it last week ( sick ) . but I think like 5 , the week before 7 or 8 , I'm goin friday for sure , so bring it on G- LOVE.

" 2 laps down" Bob

tennessee

Merry Christmas Dennis from all of of us at Brads house.

Hows the new MTX-3 coming around.

See ya at the Speedline race in april.

Dan

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Dennis, quick question if you don't mind:

Is there a reason why the inner bearing is placed the opposite way compared to the stock setup? (With the thin shield facing outwards.) I noticed this on both Richey's and how it was different compared to my other stock MT12 and SX .15

Reason being is something is wrong with the bearing on my Richey and I removed it to swap it with my stock MT12 bearings. Just wondering if changing sides affects anything for the bearings...

Motorman

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sparksy

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Surely limiting fuel tank capacity, and the exaust stinger inside diameter would help to level the field a little..... as these rules are already in place. At larger events and clubs that adhear to the Ifmar/ roar rule set, multi port engines and big carbs shouldnt pose a real problem. And realisticaly, at the non affiliated clubs, is it realy that much of a problem? I'm sure if a post race tech was carried out on the winners vehicle, and it was found to be illegal, it wouldnt take long for the word to get out that they were stripped of their win.... it would be a deterant for others to "cheat"

jason102276

i perfer racing 1/8 buggy now because there arent any engine rules it just seems to over complicate things

engine tech doesnt seem to be carried out correctly anyway at nats only once did they check my carb and never looked up exhaust port and the only thing i saw them do to the engines at the end was check stroke or at least thats how it seemed

at my regionals this year the post race inspection was a removal of engine head then David Lee measured the stroke on my mt-12 only whats the point i could have been running 5 ports a 6.5mm carb 5mm exhaust port turbo plug and he probably wouldnt have noticed

i dont know why we need all these restrictions engines rarely win races alone in my opinion

patelladragger

I've been screaming this the past year but it hasn't seemed to me ROAR thinks 200mm should be anything but a novice class so they don't want to entertain changes.

The way the rules are now it IS moving toward the electric nonsense. It's only because of modifiers like you Ritchey that the situation in nitro is not as bad as electric - at least we can get access to engines on par with factory stuff. We'll NEVER get factory cells or motors though.

Still - the costs are quite high and if they would open up the rules the off the shelf outlaw engines would be sufficient to keep anyone in the hunt with the hand modifieds....

The rules are costing the racers money and they're not slowing anyone down except the ones who can't or won't drop the big $$$ on engines.

I'm all for starting an organized ROAR email campaign - maybe Rick is more prone to listen than others have been in the past.

Cartman

in the Uk we can only have 5.4mm carb hole and 5.2mm stinger

jason102276

if they put a restriction on carb size, stinger size and fuel tank and dropped all other restrictions the cars would be easier to tech 100% and therefore making it the most fair

Motorman

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Cartman

Denis would you kindly reply to the pm i sent you??
thanks

Mark

Dan

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Ok, thanks Dennis!