petenis: you can find Masami's body on the Yokomo website, it's and MS-1. Part # MS-1 $16.95

The body and the foams you can have your hobby shop order for you just make sure you give them the part number. Beware though a lot of the new products usually are on backorder even though they are said to be released :weird:

Help w/ stock motor, brush and spring combinations
 

Hello I am new to 1/12 scale racing and wanted to get an idea which stock motor works best on a fast flowing track. Can anyone help me with motor, brush and spring combinations? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
F1-Fanatic

While we're on stock motors, which are good on very tight twisty tracks. Is the P2K good? I was thinking of maybe getting a Core or a Reedy?
I have experience with modified motors but have never used a stocker before, what difference is there in wear etc?
Thanks

F1- Don't race stock but I hear that the new Matrix TQ or New Reedy coming out will be really good for high speed tracks along with the standard bearing Green Machine.

Louis- Check out the new Luna Stocker. You can get it at SpeedWorld.

Hey Graphitedust, Glad you found the "rake" problem in your 12th car. I see it a lot, and it can be very difficult to diagnose. Good luck this season.

darnold: i don't really want to make an order from the US just for a motor but thanks anyway.

I got my car today, with plenty of tires and spares. The bodyshells are rather old and battered though so I need to get a new one but I don't know which to get. The ones with it are p35s and are popular at the track but I was thinking about a Bently Speed 8, has anyone tried this body (I like the real car:nod: )

Rev.3 Racer: Thanks for the advice! I have totally changed the way I run this car due to the problems I had. I now measure the tire diameter of each wheel after each run and check the ride height at eight locations. I even developed a little work sheet that I write this stuff down on. Makes keeping track of where everything is much more manageable. Even bought a new $100 digital caliper to measure tire dia. Thanks for the help. LC:D

Everybody seems to run P35s so I will probably get one of those because it's been proven to handle well at the track. I forgot to say that the car is actually a G2 (no instructions but that's what it's supposed to be) and it seems in pretty good condition. Does anyone have any idea on gearing, it came with a rusty 16 tooth pinion and 81 tooth spur but I don't trust the previous owner's gearing knowledge so does that sound about right?

The car has quite a history, it's about 6 years old, has had 2 or 3 previous owners and has won 4 championships!

I was racing at the week-end,& my sponsor was there(modeltech),he said thati was putting to much tyre adertive on,has i was grip rolling,etc,i then said to him that ive started cleaning my tyres with motor spray,he then told me that motor spray is to agressive and could re-act with the foam tyres,i genarally use corally gold rears & silver fronts.But...before knowing this,ive been cleaning my last set of tyres with lighter fluid,if i have time to let them dry,And motor spray cleaner,if i need to clean them quick,and to be honest my tyres lasted a lot longer than not doing them,but i didnt take any notice if it was efecting the tyres on preformance,(has i was using silvers on the rear instead of the usuall gold's),what is your opinion on this..?..?.
stevie

Louis,

That G2 should be a great car for you, I wish I still had mine from '95. Every 3 or 4 race days, you might want to take the front "beam" off and turn it over. My G2 would get a touch slower off the corners if I didn't do this on a regular basis. Other than that, just keep the rear dampener clean and smooth, and you've got a winner.

Trips

Trips: It came with about 4 front beams, 2 T-bars and a spare chassis, so I could just put a new one on and save the old one for later:)

Even if you put a new front beam on the car, turn it over every few race days. I wish I had a solid explanation for it, but I don't. I only know it helped my car stay consistently fast when I did it. When I didn't the car would begin to gradually get slower after about three or four race days.

T

new to 1/12 and tires
 

Hey guys. I am pretty new to 1/12 scale, as I mostly run sedan on carpet on rubber tires.

My track is indoor carpet (ozite), and I need some recommendations on tires and sauce.

I ran some last year, but never got traction figured out.

Cars: crc carpet knife v3.1 and rc12l3. running mild mods (19t down to 13t). I can't seem to handle any more power than that.

Trying to get some new tires for this winter:
1. what is the best compound for my application
2. what is the sauce technique


Thanks,
Ken:p

purple front, gray rears, sauce the entire rear tire, outside 1/2 of front, little less more less steering/more for more


http://www.teamcrc.com/inventory2003/foam_tires.htm

is some good infor on types of tires and applications

I know I've seen it here before....but????

Need some roll-out help...

I am running a CRC bloddy car on a small, tight carpet track..

What are you guys using for roll-out....

I looked back through the thread, but couldn't find the info anymore???


Motors:
MVP
GM3
New Atlas
13t Top Based

I was told around 1.65 - 1.71 to start with by CRC for a P2K...

So, I could kinda guess for the other motors and be close there...


Thanks for any help.....

FYI: Hard to find much of any info on the Luna's....