Paul L

Im off to the Gas Nats this week so i will be back around early next week to catch up with any questions.

Thanks

Owen RaCing

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What Speed Control is that Paul?

Fred Hubbard

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Since Paul is incommunicado at the moment I'll chime in for him. One of the great traits of TPRC is that they don't "rest on their laurels." With that being said, it's a proto speedo

Owen RaCing

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Awesome, Thanks Fred.

UrabusDenis

Hello Paul !

I'm looking to buy the 2012 Xray when it comes out . Since all my cars are Xrays ( 1/10 touring with a T1 , 1/10 T1R"ally" , M18 ) I'd rather keep using these splendid machines but the problem is that these cars are a very rare sight these days at my track , since everybody else is running mostly AE cars . This means that the closest I can get to parts is in a neighbouring country . My question is , which parts do you reccomend buying with the kit , just to be safe ? Also , what can I expect from the 2012 kit ?

Denis

bertrandsv87

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Shouldn't the capacitor be glued to the chassis ???

bertrandsv87

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If Tp could come with a speedy capable of running 2.5t motors with some timing, that would be great ! Right now, Novak , lrp, and speedpassion are the only real choice for mod motors faster than 4.5t ....

StarrRacing

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Paul,

I hear guys talk about switching their chassis over from Summer Asphalt to Winter Carpet.

Question #1: What kind of changes should I be looking at to make the change from Asphalt to Carpet.?.?.?

Question #2: I am building an XRay T3 2010 and am just getting ready to build the shocks. Can you give me any helpful hints on how to build my XRay shocks? I have heard they can be tricky to build.

TheZoof

Paul - I was doing a search on the forum for Jaco blue tires on carpet and how to prep. I found you answered someone with that information.

Could I also ask if you do anything to the jaco blue tires before this step(file them etc) and I have heard these tires take quite a few runs to get to optimum. Do you find this to be the case?

I am heading to IIC and heard JACO will be the handout tire. I never used this brand before so I thought I would get your experienced input. Just need to know if one set of tires will be enough or should I plan to practice with a set and race with a few sets...

Thanks for your time.

Paul L

Hi Dennis. The Most common thing to break on the Xrays are the steering knuckls so i would go ahead and get 2 or three spairs of those, i would carry a spair set of hinge pins, suspension arms and rear uprights also. it is very rare to break a suspension arm or upright but it could happen. on the secondary parts I would carry spur gears (obvious) and a pair of shock bodys, after that you should be pretty good.

Im not sure what the new car will bring us yet but i do know now that it is in the works.

The speed control in my car is really just a skeleton for testing software. I have more production hardware to test now along with new software so we will see. I truley think that their is no need for a 2.5,3.0 or 3.5 in racing or anything at that, I always use a 4.0 and with the right speedo have never lacked for power or top speed on even the largest tracks. a speedo that would handle a 2.5 turn in all situations would be Very hard to make and manufactures dont have a huge need to focus on such a task BC of the 4.0, 4.5 being so fast already.

Thanks

Paul L

I find the shocks to be pretty easy to build, here is what i do.

fill the shock. pump the piston and return the piston to the bottom, (air comes up from under the piston.), re fill the shock to the very top. Put bladder in, push down on the center of the bladder with a tool to extend the bladder in the oil (oil bleeding out the side of bladder.) Screw on cap.
Then i flip the shock upside down and let it sit for a minute or two, (any air will now come to the bottom of the shock.) With the shock still upside down i now remove the bottom cap and push the piston slowly down all the way, when the piston is all the way down i then turn on the bottom cap on.

99% of the time when bleeding it this way the air will bleed out as you push the piston in and it will result in a fairly dead shock with no air.

Thanks.

Paul L

At handout races it can be tricky, at a club level i find that Jacos can be faster the older they get. In Vegas for instance Old tires will be best at the begining of practice for sure, as the track gets grooved in the newer tires will begin to perform better. Every year seemd to be different also.

I would for sure prep the tire, New tires i would clean with motor spray then sauce for atleast 1hr before running. on re run tires i would clean them with sauce then sauce 30min before you run.

All in all i think that you will definately want more than one set. To be safe i would run two sets in practice, one set just run once then put them away, continue to run the other set. from their i would ask around and moniter the situation to see if in the end of qualifing you want to use those scuffs that you saved or not.

see you in vegas..

TheZoof

Thanks for the information. That's a great idea. One follow up question... I will be running a couple of sedan classes. Do you think it would be a good idea to run one set of tires on both cars during practice. That would mean I have one really worn set that potentially could perform better and a few one runs, if needed.

I have never seen a tire that reacted that way. I am used to the 2nd run being the fastest and after that performance going down...

Yup... see you at Vegas! should be fun...

Kevin K

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Thanks Paul....

http://www.rctech.net/forum/wisconsi...ml#post9711028

jake95

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hi,
paul i was wondering if you knew what the new T3"12 will be like when it comes out some people are saying it will be like the 2011 with updated parts was just wondering.also do you use some sort of shock slime to built shocks.also for the gear diff do you use and sort of grease on the outdrives.
thanks
jake