joaocvduarte

very nice track

LowClassCC

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There was a local dirt oval that was only 10 minutes away from me. My son raced there with an underdog car and worked his way up to where he was running with the big dogs. Sadly he was being held back due to the overall weight of the vintage rc10 based car I had built him. So I built him a new car over the course of a few months. All that was left to do was to paint the body and he would be racing the new car the next week. The final race night running the rc10 they made the announcement just before the mains that the track was closing down for good. It had been open about 8 months in total.

As much as I enjoyed going to the track and setting up my son's car and my wife's I personally didn't even race their myself. Dirt oval has just never won me over. I started with offroad racing and that's where my love is. I enjoy watching all racing but I enjoy more right turns than oval has to offer.

On another note, when most people think of tracks they envision a flat surface to start with. I do not have a flat spot on my property. There will be a good deal of elevation change on our track. I need to remember to take some measurements to find out the angle the track will be and the elevation of both sides. Until we get it laid out and run on it I am not sure how it will effect things, but I don't seeing any problems other than hauling equipment up and down the hill for guests. That can be easily solved by using our 4 wheeler pulling a small trailer to transport peoples equipment to and from the track.

Once the offroad track s completed we are planning to build a scaler/crawler course. That's in the future though.

Milkdudd

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As I have stated here several times, a large hilly piece of property would be my dream to build a track on. The star of the show would be a 30 or 40 ft downhill drop off jump. Please post some photos once your track is a reality

LowClassCC

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I will post pics when I have some that are worth posting.

Today I finished cutting the rebar. now I have 500x 1 foot stakes. My son started on digging the 4 foot deep hole for the electric meter platform. He hit a large slab of limestone less than 2 inches below the surface. So far is he almost 3 foot deep but we are having to reposition the platform in order to work around the limestone.

I also marked 2 dozen trees that will need to be removed in and around the track. There are quite a few more I am planning to remove but I ran out of marker paint. The largest part of the trees are ash trees that I am removing. The ash bore beetles have wreaked havoc here and killed nearly all of them. The other trees are saplings and damaged/dying trees. There are a few trees that will stay in the track area to help provide shade for the track. these are mostly maple, and persimmon trees.

joaocvduarte

how many centimeters have the black pipe that most use to do the track ?

AHR43

My track uses 10.16cm (4in US). Cheers. 'AC'

LowClassCC

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Yes. and to note that the inner diameter measurements since we are talking pipe and not tube.

AHR43

Greetings, jcd. Went to your album pics and the plat of ground and layout you are proposing both look great. My track runs 1/10 electric ST. What are you planning your track for?
Cheers. 'AC'

Alexv2024

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Please do not use corrugated pipe, unless you want to be on par with tracks. Its easy and common sure, but its not great. They catch your tires and throw your car around.

Most of the tracks I race at use it, but if I built a track at home I'd use some sort of 2.5-3in dia smooth tube of some kind. PVC or something, and heat it up and bend it for smooth bends. The smaller diameter makes it easy to drive over and get your buggy out of the infield or back on track.

Just something to consider.

joaocvduarte

Hi guys.
long time away but keep my cars, have inicial hobao and after buy a Hotbodies d8 both fuel engines . Now i buy the kit to convert Hotbodies in electric buy a new controller , motor ( brushless kit ) and Battery . saw the track that i use to ride but not there anymore unfortunately , so i decide to build a track in the time i wait for the rc parts.
make a inicial track project but the space was not that wide and far, the track is for max 3 cars so i will put 2.5 meters in lane some parts a little more.


the pic is in the left side of the project




so today was 1 day i mark the area and saw what is possible to do. i will take the herbs and after that smooth the area.

what do you think about the project ?

joaocvduarte

ok thanks, i think go to use corrugated pipe but with 4.5mm

joaocvduarte

just to run with a friend so 2 cars 1/8 max 3

LowClassCC

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800' of yellow corrugated pipe

View of the track location. Some more of the trees pictured are slated to be removed.

Here is the design I will be using for the track stakes to hold down the piping.

50x of the track stakes are now welded up.

hole for the platform to hold the electric meter base 4' deep, check

platform for the meter base has now been built and installed.

LowClassCC

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Simply stay off the pipes and this problem is solved.

2.5" diameter pipe is too small imo. 3" is the minimum for 1/10 scale offroad if you are interested in going by the Roar rules. Rigid pvc is smooth for the pipe riders but does not give/flex when you impact it like corrugated pipe goes. Corrugated pipe forms easily in any direction, up, down, right and left to fit to any shape track. If you want to ever change the layout of the track it can be done easily. If the day comes to get rid of the track the corrugated pipe is easily repurposed as drainage pipe. Rigid pvc pipe had the benefit of being smooth, you can bend it with heat. But it will be difficult to change the layout. Disposal I see as another issue being it would have limited uses after being bent and damaged over time. I frankly like the slightly larger size of the 4" id corrugated pipe because it also helps prevent accidental (and intentional) lane cutting.

Just my thoughts.

AHR43

Good stuff, Alexv and CC. Certainly worth considering both options in building a track.

Only use the 4" (10.1cm) corrugated pipe on the outside of my track to prevent impact damage to the truck hitting hard, close-by objects. Gotta really work to pipe ride 4" with a 1/10 ST. Mostly scrub and deflect. Other parts of the track are limited by taller grass impeding progress and preventing strike damage. Use corner dots exclusively to limit course cutting to the infield and on non-piped outer sections. Seems to work o.k. in conjunction with a strict rules package to keep trucks honest in course cutting. My track lays down and picks up piping for every session, so the dots make for less work and less grass damage.

Cheers and keep on building back yard. 'AC'