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Old 03-20-2005, 07:17 PM
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Jason and Wayne, thanks for designing and building a great kit!

My son ran his BMI L4 for the first time on Sat. and the car was a dramatic improvement over the stock L4. He finished second in the A main and had the lead for a while before a hitting a corner dot. He was able to pick up 4 laps over his previous best.

As fatdoggy said, the car can carry a lot more corner speed and it seems easier to hold a clean line. My son was a lot smoother around the whole track. He was thrilled with the new car (now I just have to convince him to let me try it once in a while.)

Keep up the great work guys and thanks again.

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Old 03-20-2005, 07:28 PM
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Rick S
Jason and Wayne, thanks for designing and building a great kit!

My son ran his BMI L4 for the first time on Sat. and the car was a dramatic improvement over the stock L4. He finished second in the A main and had the lead for a while before a hitting a corner dot. He was able to pick up 4 laps over his previous best.

As fatdoggy said, the car can carry a lot more corner speed and it seems easier to hold a clean line. My son was a lot smoother around the whole track. He was thrilled with the new car (now I just have to convince him to let me try it once in a while.)

Keep up the great work guys and thanks again.

Rick
[/QUOTE Wayne ran great with the BMI conversion car today he was fastttttt wow!!!!!
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Old 03-21-2005, 03:56 AM
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Rick S...
Thanks for the kind words... Glad your son likes the kit. Call Jason if your interested in one for yourself. I know he's gonna be running more off here shortly and he has a small list of people starting again!!


Tony,
I think it was safe to say I was fast... lol... I wouldn't have been that fast without the power of POWER PUSH batteries

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Old 03-21-2005, 04:58 AM
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A 9 turn in a 1/12th scale car? Yeah, I can say that will be fast...lol
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John F...
Your stuff is in the mail!!

JohnB...
Your stuff went out priority mail!!

Fatdoggy...
Your stuff went out priority mail too!!!

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Old 03-21-2005, 05:08 PM
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Thanks Wayne
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Old 03-21-2005, 05:46 PM
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Hi
To the BMI guys, how much would a L4 conversion kit + shipping to Canada would be?
Thanks
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Thanks Wayne
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Old 03-21-2005, 07:53 PM
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Well, I got the kit from Yang (theisgroup) like he said he would sell me and here is the finished product.
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Old 03-21-2005, 07:57 PM
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Looks great. Good job on the electronics, looks clean. Only problem I see is that capacitor on the speed control. Most of the time I run my batteries all the way forward. You may want to relocate that so you have the full range of adjustment.

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Well, I got the kit from Yang (theisgroup) like he said he would sell me and here is the finished product.
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Won't be a problem. I put the batteries all the way forward and still had room for clearence.

That does bring up a question. Are there suppose to be something to use for battery locators or just use the tape to keep them in place?
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Old 03-21-2005, 08:18 PM
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Oh ok, just looked that way in the picture.
I just use tape and it's easy enough to get each side equal if when I mount them back a little. I have not had them come loose yet. The chassis is super easy to tape the batteries in.

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Old 03-21-2005, 08:38 PM
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With as much steering as this thing has now, I can't imagine running the batteries forward for even more steering though.
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Old 03-21-2005, 09:17 PM
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John,

You were right, the cap was in the way. I had to move the esc forward to get the full adjustment on battery location. One of these days I will buy me another esc to replace the twister.
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