Grenade – Good to see you made it home OK. Have you recovered from your RC trek through regional’s and then Nationals? 10 glorious days of 1/12 scale racing! What a dream come true! I used up both of the motors that I had teched for the nationals. I went to true them up and found that the comms were too smal. We’re looking forward with racing with you again! Hurry back to the Plex! Oh, and you can bring the rest of the gang also.

djb

I have to say X 5 for the Niftech tool.

The Unity is a VERY nice piece of kit, but it's three biggest drawbacks are:

1) PITA to assemble/disassemble at race venue

2) Takes up a LOT of bench space once assembled

3) Price ($160 vs. $25)

I LOVE my Unity station as much as anything because I'm a tool whore. The fact is I never use it because it doesn't do anything my $25 Niftech gauge doesn't do equally as well. The Niftech even measures for center as well. The Unity is more intuitive if you've never used the Niftech, but once you figure out how the Niftech works it's faster (MUCH faster counting assembly/disassembly time for the Unity) and you can buy a LOT of cool stuff for the price difference.

In fairness, the Niftech will check camber as well as toe, but I've found it faster to use my $10 RPM plastic camber gauge, so I guess my Niftech/RPM alignment kit is $35 total...

So, why is there no 12th scale setup station like TC's have? If I can some how get the 12th to use my TC setup station that would be a dream:nod:

http://www.lefthander-rc.com/catalog...oducts_id=1248

It's made for 10th scale oval cars, but you could probably get it to work for 12th scale if you shim up the back of the car to make the chassis level.

Because it isn't necessary. Everything you need to set on these can be easily and efficiently measured with the Niftech tool (two precision-scribed bars of aluminum and a stick), a ride height gauge, and a 12" caliper to measure oa width.

And it wouldn't be a dream, it would be a NIGHTMARE. The only thing that takes more time and space than my Unity station is my Hudy AiO station. Like the Unity the Hudy is a BEAUTIFUL tool, but expensive (understandably so) and WAY over-complicated for 1/12. And another reason I HATE touring cars...

Gotta agree on that point, overcomplicating setups take the fun out of trackday :(

You can get them from our online store.:cool:

yes, there isnt much point to get too complex of a setup station, because you will only be adjusting very few things, camber, caster, toe, and that kind of stuff, which is fairly simple with a regular simple station, rather than something like that of Hudy

Yes I had a great time at all the races, made a lot of new RC friends. I'll be back at the plex for the fall race and yes we should have other Colorado racers, just not sure 24 of them will make the trek as they did for Nationals.

Hey is my pit space still there? "Sonic Grenade" Out

I'd agree on the set up station for 1/12 scale. I sold a touring car station that I got with a nitro 1/10 scale after trying to set it up a few times. The Unity was faster and more accurate.

I've never tried the Niftech, but I'm like Scottrick in that I like cool tools. So maybe I'll give one a try.

4 cell saddle packs . . .
 

4 cell saddle packs . . .

Are you guys making your own? I bought a couple pre-made from the lhs but now they say they're having a problem with the vendor. It was a 4600 mah EnerG saddle from Promatch. Don't see it on their site . . .

I just went to their site and under build option you can select saddle pack or side by side.

Ohhh . . . I get it now . . . you build the configuration . . . duh . . .

So is this the best bet for built packs?

A 1/10th scale TC guy at the track sold me a 6 cell pack that he said had a dead cell. $30, good deal cuz my shop sells me the Promatch 4 cell saddle for about $42.

So I'm looking at the 6 cell pack and have seen the solder joints on the two 4 cell packs I got from the track/lhs and the penetration/heat looked a bit sketchy. So I decide to give the 6 cell pack with the dead cell a good twist in my hands. Sure as Shine-Ola one of the battery bars adjacent to the "dead cell" breaks free. Classic cold weld. From the factory.

No prob for me cuz I just got 5 cells for $30 but it does have me looking for single cells and other vendors . . .

I just picked up a Comp Elec Turbo Matcher 4/35 and a Xipp Zapper on fleaBay, I think I want to go with some matched single cells . . .http://66.134.70.69/files/audi/misc/...L/IMG_2644.jpg

Well there was a great setup station for pan cars both 1/10th and 1/12th. It was the Holeshot setup board. It works similar to today's TC setup boards but takes up a lot less space. It's just wide enough to sit the front end of a 1/10th pan car on top of it and only about 4 inches long. It is easy and very fast to use. I still see it listed on their website but I don't think it is produced any longer. After all these years I'm glad I never lost mine.

That KSG one looks interesting...how does it attach to the front axles?

Steve

looked @ the BRCA list but that won't tell us which batteries are in favour for 12th in the USA