17LikesGT8 Class--buggy-based on road electric!
11-09-2010, 09:39 AM
#886
That's what drew me to the Sweeps treaded tires. I like them but I've read on here that the PMTs are much better in regards to performance. I may have to try out a set and see the comparison but you are right, the PMTs are mounted on some really ugly rims. Think I find the link you guys posted and place an order for Corona.
Last edited by FangsCPO; 11-09-2010 at 03:15 PM.
11-09-2010, 09:41 AM
#887
Tech Regular
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This class is heating up big time, now let's work on keeping the momentum going so it doesn't fade out.
11-09-2010, 10:44 AM
#890
Tested the Sweep 45 Slicks.
Track:Surf City Raceway
Dimensions:170'x70'
Surface:Med-High Bite prepped and treated Asphalt
Track Temp:85*F
Car:Ofna Ultra GTP2E
Motor: Speedpassion Cirtix Slotless 2200KV
Esc: Speedpassion Silver Arrow 2
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Test 1
I take the car out for its first run. The month before i tried the Sweep 50's and had a lot of steering, too much but this also was with no center Diff. No center diff for a shaft driven car means if traction is anywhere lower than super high bite, you will get major oversteer on power. Fearing this would happen again, i change my set up for understeer on top of having my center diff installed. The first couple of minutes i was LOVING it. Car cornered instantly and responded to every input. It looked like i was in teh right direction. The later part of the race was different. I was not sure if it was the tires overheating, but i started to get a BIG PUSH off power. ALmost like the tired were rubbing on the front fenders in turns. It slowed my car down about a second each lap. My Looseness was DEFINITELY gone. At least teh car was DRIVABLE!!!
Test 2
So i take the car out again with a few changes. I raised the front ride height by 2 mm so my off power weight transfer would put more pressure on the front tires, assuming my tires weren't getting enough pressure off power and they were not overheating. Same thing happened. After 2 minutes, the understeer offpower came back.
Test 3
I didn't get to run my mains cuz i had to announce, but i did install the swaybars back in. It made a big difference. It did hold the steering in longer. I guess taking away some of the body roll did the track. One thing is for sure, the Sweep tires definitely held their own. I had Steve from SNR try the set and he too found that there was a slight understeer issue with them.
Final Thoughts
With the information given, it is evident that with a few more set up changes, we can get these tires SUPER DIALED. For Hobbytown Corona, I will run the 50's in the Rear and 45's up front to get the car to rotate better. I will probably also need more FINETUNING so i will probbaly order some SNR shock towers so i can lay the rear shocks more as well. All in ALL, Sweep makes an awesome GT8 Tire and you should see more of them at the track in the near future.
Track:Surf City Raceway
Dimensions:170'x70'
Surface:Med-High Bite prepped and treated Asphalt
Track Temp:85*F
Car:Ofna Ultra GTP2E
Motor: Speedpassion Cirtix Slotless 2200KV
Esc: Speedpassion Silver Arrow 2
---------------------------------------------
Test 1
I take the car out for its first run. The month before i tried the Sweep 50's and had a lot of steering, too much but this also was with no center Diff. No center diff for a shaft driven car means if traction is anywhere lower than super high bite, you will get major oversteer on power. Fearing this would happen again, i change my set up for understeer on top of having my center diff installed. The first couple of minutes i was LOVING it. Car cornered instantly and responded to every input. It looked like i was in teh right direction. The later part of the race was different. I was not sure if it was the tires overheating, but i started to get a BIG PUSH off power. ALmost like the tired were rubbing on the front fenders in turns. It slowed my car down about a second each lap. My Looseness was DEFINITELY gone. At least teh car was DRIVABLE!!!
Test 2
So i take the car out again with a few changes. I raised the front ride height by 2 mm so my off power weight transfer would put more pressure on the front tires, assuming my tires weren't getting enough pressure off power and they were not overheating. Same thing happened. After 2 minutes, the understeer offpower came back.
Test 3
I didn't get to run my mains cuz i had to announce, but i did install the swaybars back in. It made a big difference. It did hold the steering in longer. I guess taking away some of the body roll did the track. One thing is for sure, the Sweep tires definitely held their own. I had Steve from SNR try the set and he too found that there was a slight understeer issue with them.
Final Thoughts
With the information given, it is evident that with a few more set up changes, we can get these tires SUPER DIALED. For Hobbytown Corona, I will run the 50's in the Rear and 45's up front to get the car to rotate better. I will probably also need more FINETUNING so i will probbaly order some SNR shock towers so i can lay the rear shocks more as well. All in ALL, Sweep makes an awesome GT8 Tire and you should see more of them at the track in the near future.
11-09-2010, 11:15 AM
#891
11-09-2010, 11:23 AM
#893
Tech Adept
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Tested the Sweep 45 Slicks.
Track:Surf City Raceway
Dimensions:170'x70'
Surface:Med-High Bite prepped and treated Asphalt
Track Temp:85*F
Car:Ofna Ultra GTP2E
Motor: Speedpassion Cirtix Slotless 2200KV
Esc: Speedpassion Silver Arrow 2
---------------------------------------------
Test 1
I take the car out for its first run. The month before i tried the Sweep 50's and had a lot of steering, too much but this also was with no center Diff. No center diff for a shaft driven car means if traction is anywhere lower than super high bite, you will get major oversteer on power. Fearing this would happen again, i change my set up for understeer on top of having my center diff installed. The first couple of minutes i was LOVING it. Car cornered instantly and responded to every input. It looked like i was in teh right direction. The later part of the race was different. I was not sure if it was the tires overheating, but i started to get a BIG PUSH off power. ALmost like the tired were rubbing on the front fenders in turns. It slowed my car down about a second each lap. My Looseness was DEFINITELY gone. At least teh car was DRIVABLE!!!
Test 2
So i take the car out again with a few changes. I raised the front ride height by 2 mm so my off power weight transfer would put more pressure on the front tires, assuming my tires weren't getting enough pressure off power and they were not overheating. Same thing happened. After 2 minutes, the understeer offpower came back.
Test 3
I didn't get to run my mains cuz i had to announce, but i did install the swaybars back in. It made a big difference. It did hold the steering in longer. I guess taking away some of the body roll did the track. One thing is for sure, the Sweep tires definitely held their own. I had Steve from SNR try the set and he too found that there was a slight understeer issue with them.
Final Thoughts
With the information given, it is evident that with a few more set up changes, we can get these tires SUPER DIALED. For Hobbytown Corona, I will run the 50's in the Rear and 45's up front to get the car to rotate better. I will probably also need more FINETUNING so i will probbaly order some SNR shock towers so i can lay the rear shocks more as well. All in ALL, Sweep makes an awesome GT8 Tire and you should see more of them at the track in the near future.
Track:Surf City Raceway
Dimensions:170'x70'
Surface:Med-High Bite prepped and treated Asphalt
Track Temp:85*F
Car:Ofna Ultra GTP2E
Motor: Speedpassion Cirtix Slotless 2200KV
Esc: Speedpassion Silver Arrow 2
---------------------------------------------
Test 1
I take the car out for its first run. The month before i tried the Sweep 50's and had a lot of steering, too much but this also was with no center Diff. No center diff for a shaft driven car means if traction is anywhere lower than super high bite, you will get major oversteer on power. Fearing this would happen again, i change my set up for understeer on top of having my center diff installed. The first couple of minutes i was LOVING it. Car cornered instantly and responded to every input. It looked like i was in teh right direction. The later part of the race was different. I was not sure if it was the tires overheating, but i started to get a BIG PUSH off power. ALmost like the tired were rubbing on the front fenders in turns. It slowed my car down about a second each lap. My Looseness was DEFINITELY gone. At least teh car was DRIVABLE!!!
Test 2
So i take the car out again with a few changes. I raised the front ride height by 2 mm so my off power weight transfer would put more pressure on the front tires, assuming my tires weren't getting enough pressure off power and they were not overheating. Same thing happened. After 2 minutes, the understeer offpower came back.
Test 3
I didn't get to run my mains cuz i had to announce, but i did install the swaybars back in. It made a big difference. It did hold the steering in longer. I guess taking away some of the body roll did the track. One thing is for sure, the Sweep tires definitely held their own. I had Steve from SNR try the set and he too found that there was a slight understeer issue with them.
Final Thoughts
With the information given, it is evident that with a few more set up changes, we can get these tires SUPER DIALED. For Hobbytown Corona, I will run the 50's in the Rear and 45's up front to get the car to rotate better. I will probably also need more FINETUNING so i will probbaly order some SNR shock towers so i can lay the rear shocks more as well. All in ALL, Sweep makes an awesome GT8 Tire and you should see more of them at the track in the near future.
11-09-2010, 12:04 PM
#894
They work good around here you just need to put some heat in them, when they get into the track you'll here them screech.
11-09-2010, 01:04 PM
#895
Flights from LA to Mexico City aren't too much, hotel is $95 a night tax included, food is pretty inexpensive and the track..... well lets just say, they don't get much better.
You guys should represent, we're talking "Big Boy" racing and a whole lot of it.
You guys should represent, we're talking "Big Boy" racing and a whole lot of it.
11-09-2010, 01:10 PM
#896
Are they racing any electric powered cars down there in Mexico or still all Nitro?
That track is simply world class awesome!!! We need something like that here in SoCal for sure. I still can't understand with so many RC companies located here we still don't have a world class on-road track.
That track is simply world class awesome!!! We need something like that here in SoCal for sure. I still can't understand with so many RC companies located here we still don't have a world class on-road track.
We invited GT Electric cars at our USGT Nats event in Chicago, but not one racer registered. If there's a group of a few Electric guys that want to run with us I will open the class for you.
I don't own an electric GT yet, but I believe in the class very much. This is a great opportunity for companies in this class to show the world their R/C products in a true racing enviroment. It doesn't get any better than this guys.
Hope to see some of you'll this March in Mexico!
11-09-2010, 03:13 PM
#897
Charlie, were you testing the EXP's or regular Slicks? With my setup I am running treaded EXP 45's and love them, but have yet to try them against more than 3 cars on the track, and I have not tried the PMT tires yet. Trying to decide if I should continue trying the Sweeps or switch to the PMT's.
11-09-2010, 05:46 PM
#898
Charlie, were you testing the EXP's or regular Slicks? With my setup I am running treaded EXP 45's and love them, but have yet to try them against more than 3 cars on the track, and I have not tried the PMT tires yet. Trying to decide if I should continue trying the Sweeps or switch to the PMT's.
These were the EXP Slicks. The PMT tires work really well but the way i am, i wanna get these Sweeps to work the way i want them to so 1. i can learn how this car's suspension behaves and 2. i dont want to rely on JUST one set of tires because if the "good Tire" ends up being discontinued, i don't wanna be SOL.
11-09-2010, 06:17 PM
#899
I was running the center spool in my GT8 car last time out in corona with PMT 20's. Initially, jumping on the power after a corner would result in a spin. However once the tires were up to temp, the lap times began to drop and driving consistent times was easier. HOWEVER, now that all of us are running center diffs, I am certain that we'll be on the pace next time out.
If you watch the video of the last corona race....The white car (Eric) and SNR were the only 2 cars on the track with a center diff mounted. They were turning in the faster times of the field. Eric, running PMT 20's in all 4 corners lapped the field. SNR is running 20 and 10.
I've got sets of Ipanema's, PMT's and EXP's. I'll try them all out and decide from there. The EXP wheel is so much nicer, as the dish on the PMT's are fugly, but with Charlie's wheel decals, the PMT's will be acceptable. The Ipanemas also work great, but I have had a total of 3 wheels crack around the center hub, which is very diappointing.
just my .02
-- GT8 - A Main --
Pos Car Laps time name id avg.mph
1 1 24 6:01.10 Eric Cunamay 46 14.95
2 2 23 6:03.78 Steve Nguyen 14 14.23
3 5 23 6:18.12 Jai Cunamay 28 13.69
4 10 22 6:05.45 charlie b 1 13.54
5 4 22 6:11.87 Anthony Dunn 12 13.31
6 8 21 6:09.08 Dan K 31 12.80
7 6 20 6:07.66 MARK WOLF 40 12.24
-- 3 --- DNS --- dave starks 15
-- 7 --- DNS --- steve d 22
-- 9 --- DNS --- RAMAN DOOMEN 36
-- 11 --- DNS --- oMAR CONDE 37
Last edited by kcunamay; 11-09-2010 at 07:42 PM.
11-10-2010, 03:16 PM
#900
Originally Posted by kcunamay
Quote: Originally Posted by FangsCPO Did you say the PMTs are hard?? Were you touching the 10s and 20s?? I can't see a hard tire providing much traction unless its a physics things that I'm missing. Someone please educate me. Initially the tires are hard to the touch....but once heat is in them, they are great. Feel the tires after a heat/race and you'll see that they become "gummy" for lack of a better word. I was running the center spool in my GT8 car last time out in corona with PMT 20's. Initially, jumping on the power after a corner would result in a spin. However once the tires were up to temp, the lap times began to drop and driving consistent times was easier. HOWEVER, now that all of us are running center diffs, I am certain that we'll be on the pace next time out. If you watch the video of the last corona race....The white car (Eric) and SNR were the only 2 cars on the track with a center diff mounted. They were turning in the faster times of the field. Eric, running PMT 20's in all 4 corners lapped the field. SNR is running 20 and 10. I've got sets of Ipanema's, PMT's and EXP's. I'll try them all out and decide from there. The EXP wheel is so much nicer, as the dish on the PMT's are fugly, but with Charlie's wheel decals, the PMT's will be acceptable. The Ipanemas also work great, but I have had a total of 3 wheels crack around the center hub, which is very diappointing. just my .02 -- GT8 - A Main -- Pos Car Laps time name id avg.mph 1 1 24 6:01.10 Eric Cunamay 46 14.95 2 2 23 6:03.78 Steve Nguyen 14 14.23 3 5 23 6:18.12 Jai Cunamay 28 13.69 4 10 22 6:05.45 charlie b 1 13.54 5 4 22 6:11.87 Anthony Dunn 12 13.31 6 8 21 6:09.08 Dan K 31 12.80 7 6 20 6:07.66 MARK WOLF 40 12.24 -- 3 --- DNS --- dave starks 15 -- 7 --- DNS --- steve d 22 -- 9 --- DNS --- RAMAN DOOMEN 36 -- 11 --- DNS --- oMAR CONDE 37
