Touring Car ROAR event minimum weight
 

I'm curious as to what everyone thinks the minimum weight is for touring cars at ROAR events? 1350 or 1380?

Yeah, what he said

Anyone affiliated with roar care to chime in? Everyone I know thought it was 1350, but someone sent an email to roar, and got the answer of
​​​1380.

If only ROAR had a website with the rules published on it...

I can see no advantages, only disadvantages-- the main one being expense, just as you stated. Every time the weight drops, the wallets open. That's never good.

Every TC I've built in last couple years was way under the current ROAR min (Except the TA07 LOL). A lower weight limit would have saved me money. No need to buy fancy brass centre wieghts and inner suspension holders etc.

I have to agree, adding weight to my touring cars has become an annoying obsession lately, even with an 8400mah battery and a boat anchor speedo i had to put 10g on my T4'18 to make 1350

Tc7.1 hobby wing justock esc/motor combo, 6k Reedy lipo, Tamiya Gt body, Ko low pro servo, Solaris wheels and I added 60g to make weight.

I say lower it.

Really? I do have alum screws in the car, protek low profile servo, and my motiv mc2 is a pretty light motor, but even with the 320g battery I had to add 10g
trying to think if i have anything else on the car to lighten it, standard flex alum chassis, it does have lightened hinge pins, but that's like .8g each, hardly anything.....

I double checked my Destiny RX10SR with solid aluminum chassis and std weight body... race ready it still needed 50g to reach min. I am using Sorex on Schumacher rims.

Sorry make that 65g... TSR 17.5 motor, Tekin RS Pro Black, Motiv DefyG6000, R1 fan, Futaba S9551, Xray Saver, Xray hard bumper, bumper brace, stock steel screws.

I had to add a ton of weight on my Awesomatix A700 and Xray T4 18 with aluminum flex chassis.

About 50g added to my old HB chassis to make 1350

I’m guessing the difference is in the premount tires. The gravity wheel combo is one of the heaviest out there.

or heavy body with lots of paint

ROAR needs to stop being lazy and update the rule book. The site only will give you the 2013 version and then you have to hunt for rule changes randomly posted. Its long over due being it has been 5 years since the last full write. I've emailed them about it before sent a Facebook message its like the only response you get is that nice plastic card in the mail after you send the $35 on signup.

Any rumors of 1320g from ROAR in the future?

Still 1350g on the Roar site....Maybe they'll do 1320g next year....

Weight is staying at 1350g

EA

I wouldn't mind it at 1320. I don't mind it at 1350 either but buying those dam brass weights get's old for all your competitive cars. Motors are lighter 142-150 grams average vs older 160gram motors, bodies are lighter, by 8-12 grams, Chassis kit's are lighter by a bunch etc etc...

Can someone please post an update to this thread for us morons that don't know what we're doing I did a quick Google search and find 1380 1350 and 1320 I go to roar site and it's a pain in the ass I swear they just deserve to die and go away I emailed the administrator saying how hard would it be to make one page with the rules like VTA does that you can just click on and there it is . This is just stupid ridiculous thanks for reading my rant

it isn’t hard to find at all. Click rules, then click rule book, find the class you run then click the page in the table of contents. I found it in 5 seconds even though I didn’t know the exact location on the site.


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thanks, I do not have acrobat on my phone so I could not do it like you. Thanks again

Acrobat? Pretty much any browser can open a PDF.

Not in america my friend....They want you to pay for Everything.....We do not have the laws you guys do...Its ALL about the money here....like when I took My M3 in for service, got the car back, My Gforce would work and My heated seats would not work and my wifi would not work. But it all worked before service and I get a pop up on the display asking if I would like to add these features for 19.99 per month or 99.99 for the whole year......WTF AND they Would Not remove the Update....Even though I Owned the car. That is what they are doing now.....keeping the americans so busy over the political nonsense and in the background passing all the bills to rob them bit by bit and they do not even realize it .....I would not pay the .99cents for the download on my s3+ when It had it 1 year ago....

Er, the two leading smartphone brands are iPhone and Android. Both support PDF natively and both are American designed.

As for the M3, that's German.

Small correction: Android is not really a smartphone brand but an OS for smartphones (developed by Google, and used by most manufacturers other than Apple) - as iOS is for iPhones. But I agree: reading/viewing PDFs should be possible with pretty much any device as a basic function. Being able to edit these files, however, is usually not free.

Android is also a Trademark and is itself a brand, even if it is just the OS.