Hi
A few friends and I raced x-mods every week for a few years. We rented a banquet room at the local community centre every week and split the cost.
This is truly buget racing, a $30. car and a handful of AAA's and we were good to go. That is after a lot of stroking and modifying the first generation x-mods. We are talking- resistors in the servo wires
- different springs
- different tires
- carbon fibre driveshafts
- spinbrush motors, thanks to Scotty
Now we are having fun.
When the generation 2 cars came along, we could not believe the difference. This car goes fast without changing the motor and gearing. It steers as it is and handles pretty good right out of the box.
The only reason we are still not using these great little cars is that the radios are so crappy. I still have 4 new cars that I cannot use because the radios wear out prematurely.
X-mods put everyone on a level playing field. We all had to deal with the lack of response from the crappy radios. We were all handicapped the same.
Htown Xmods was probably the longest running group of x-mod racers ever.
We ran on 3' lanes with a 30' x 16' layout. Changed tracks every week and in between, ran in my rec room on a 12' x16' roadcourse with 2' lanes.
I still feel that X-mods gave you 90% of the fun for 10% of the cost.
regards
P J Lee
Htown X-mods