Ok guys Motorama is finally over! It was a long weekend. The track was really loose and loomy while also being super super rutted up from the 8 scales. So the first practice, I went out and found out that I forgot to put one of the bearings in the rear tranny so my rear top shaft was wiggling and I ended up stripping a spur. So that ended my run with less than 1 lap. Once I fiquired out the promblem it took me hours to find another spur. Not one hobby shop had one, thank god a fellow racer had a spare or I would have been done for the whole weekend. So for the secound practice, it didnt really go any better. The track was 3 times worse and rutted then before my first practice run. I had no rear traction and the rear end constantly washed out, I also had to really "feather" the throttle to get around the track, while the losi's where full throttle everywhere even through the rough stuff. I switched to blue rear springs and to the 3-3 block and I gained my traction back. But by that time it was after 10:00 PM and I wasnt staying till 12:00 PM to get another practice run in. By the end of qualifying on Saturday I was about 30th out of 165 drivers. But I still couldnt "push" my truck hard enough like the losi's where to get into the bump up spot I needed to get into the next main today. There was two table tops about 5 feet apart. The losi's could hit the first table and clear the whole thing landing on the downside of the 2nd table. So the next lap I tryed it and was pretty unsuccessful, I was loosing time in that section but could not clear it for the life of me. I guess on big, rutted 8 scale tracks the losi does have an advantage on the AE. My truck was bouncing around through the rutted rough parts of the track when I tryed to push it even though I added 3 ounces of lead weight. The rear end still wanted to come around as well. I guess the center diff will help.
As well as getting punted into pipes because the losi would come and plow me out of the way.
Just wanted to share my experience! Wasnt to bad of a day but not as I expected it to be.