Morgan Johns

Hey All,

Wondering what the general concensus is or reccomendations for Offroad carpet / astro turf tracks

We have to use Spiked tiers!!

Thanks for all your help

FastCats going Offroad!!!!!!!! WWW.FASTCATS.CA

schmelme

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Is it a combination of astro turf and carpet?

Morgan Johns

No Just Carpet but not Ozite more burly/dense/industrial carpet trying to best simulate dirt.

Not the soft carpet in your house

WheelNut

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Could you mabye post a pic of it? I think the carpet at our tack here is similar by the sounds of it. We use M3 holeshots exclusively, with hard foams.

Morgan Johns

Best I can do

http://www.fastcats.ca/sneak_pics.htm

theanimaleide

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maybe a Team Losi X2000 or X3000

chewiefttc4

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taper pins or switches id suggest
its a reallly short pin.

hell if your on carpet. just run switches with the outsides ground down to almost slicks. less wear and tear on the carpet

p.s that timing system is TRICK

Morgan Johns

Thanks for everyones input...

Im new to Offroad...Mainly concentrate in 1/10th Nitro touring so bare with me but what are switches...LOL

And yeah John Catricala and Co. who built fastcats come up with some amazing ideas, look around the site we even have a giant projection screen that posts live laptiming and scoring its pretty sick, 4 Linked XBOXs, outdoor paved track, and the touch screen personal fastlaps kiosk is a great way to egg on ur fellow racers, I would just leave my times up on the screen after a practice run ..hehehehehhe

chewiefttc4

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umm.. panther switches..

google them.

or red taper pins

either of them shaved down on the outside.

i know what type of carpet your using . my father was a carpet layer and we have done several jobs with that type of carpet..

ever thought about running foams???

Morgan Johns

We thought about it but dont want tires to ruin it, as we saw at some other tracks trying or using carpet for indoor offroad it became a money game, I would love the foam tires I got tons a sets of rm goo GQ the one and only.

But Anyways the track has decided that all offroad classes will have to run offroad tires.

Thanks Ill look those up

wyl03

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that's a very nice track

i hope to be able to race offroad in an upcoming ozite carpet local track. will be able to provide some feedback in 2 months' time!

WheelNut

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That carpet looks like the same stuff to me, only our's is green. I don't have any good pictures of the surface, but I've attached one none the less. I've tried quite a few different tires on this carpet and M3 holeshots are by far the best. I would normally see around 50-60 minutes of runtime on them before the lap time would really start to drop off hard. Most mid level guys were getting over 2 hours run time on the rears. Front tires would usually last about 2.5 months. Traction compound never made them any faster. You do need the Pro-line 6196-00 hard inserts, or Trinity TK1522 hard inserts though or you will not have any grip at all. I never liked the micro pin tires on this type of carpet, just to much wear. You need something to dig into the carpet a bit anyways. Thats all on my T4 though, I was finding that with 1/10th buggy tire wear is a lot higher, but holeshots are still dialed.
We didn't run jumps last year so my setup from last year wouldn't help guys a ton, but I'll attach it anyways. We are gonig to be running jumps this year though so I would be interested in seeing some setups from you guys! Although our track here is very tight.

BuggyKing

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I take it u guys run this up un Canada.

chris c

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Ever think of running panther slicks?????

Jan Larsen

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Try Schumacher Stagger Rib for the front and Mini Pin for the rear, thats what people use on carpet/astro turf.