Originally Posted by
Granpa
Yeah, agree with you. BL has many advantages, the main one is that there is little variation in performance going from motor to motor. With a Silvercan a thousand rpm variation is not unusual depending on the care the motor received. And that's in Mini. What the TC and F1 guys do to it can only be classified as cruel and unusual punishment.
Nice work winning your series. We don't race much anymore only cause there just aren't that many races anymore here locally. In fact, I don't remember winning for several years now. Oh, I don't feel too bad about this. The group I race with has won the last 6 TCS National championships and we have 2 TCS TC champs who race Minis from time to time. I have tho, at one time or another, finished ahead of all of them, at one race or another. Unfortunately, haven't managed to finish ahead of all of them in one race.
Information in this group is freely passed from one to the other as are parts etc. I do post some of the info on this thread to assist some of the racers who may not know this stuff. Unfortunately, some of the set up tips only apply for TCS racers due to the Spec tire.
Not a big deal, but it was my entry in the racing world. More like work than talent as I was still learning.
Don't race at all these days, though I build the odd car every now and then hoping one day I'll have the time to race again.
I never quite understood what can be done to a silvercan to make it more powerful apart from lining up the bushes correctly and perhaps a bit of comm cleaning when it got too grotty. Running in the bushings, breaking in the brushes may help on a good one, but I never had the desire to bother too much. I don't know what else can be done, and I remember you asked the question of whether or not it was legal (philosophically, because ultimately it is up to the scrutineer to decide regardless of the rules) which made me think if indeed it was or not. It was too much trouble for me for sure and in TC you can push the motor hard and bin it when it's done. Like I said, the quality is not the best so most of them suffered all sorts of problems before they overheated. Some lasted a while (surprisingly), some not so much.