5LikesAlex Racing Barracuda R2 & R3
11-03-2003, 02:35 PM
#6454
Hey KO, you're a bad omen 
You break your first Cuda part, the next race day I break my first Cuda part
Was having just a few practise laps when a guy walked up the steps to the rostrum, so I decided to be nice and shuffle along. This is of course when I'm going along the straight, and I take my mind of driving for a second, then realise I'm getting very near the end of the straight, so I brake but it's too late. I manage to start steering but I'm already wide and onto the dust, I slide sideways into the wall. Car drives away and I find I've broken the left rear hub
Of course this is the kit hub with lots of toe in and I don't have a spare in my pit box, jus the one with less toe in I only had time to change the broken hub and so spent the rest of the night with different toe in on each side 
Didn't drive too well all night, saved the night on the last qualifier and got into 5th place in the A final. Then the sound was lost for our final and so the race director had to say go instead of having a count down, after a stupid kid mucked it up the first time we were waiting to go, the second time I was totaly unready and the first thing I knew about the start of the race was 6th and 7th passing my on the grid
Final kind of went down hill from there, drove like a monkey and not helped at all by tyres that are now past there best, with the rears practicly bald Had one lap where I managed to crash/roll about three times 
With the bald rear tyres I just couldn't put the throttle down out of corners, although it was suprisingly good at half throttle, just not my style of driving
You better drive like a god next week KO, or I'll be paying EA to give you some lessons 
You break your first Cuda part, the next race day I break my first Cuda part
Was having just a few practise laps when a guy walked up the steps to the rostrum, so I decided to be nice and shuffle along. This is of course when I'm going along the straight, and I take my mind of driving for a second, then realise I'm getting very near the end of the straight, so I brake but it's too late. I manage to start steering but I'm already wide and onto the dust, I slide sideways into the wall. Car drives away and I find I've broken the left rear hub
Of course this is the kit hub with lots of toe in and I don't have a spare in my pit box, jus the one with less toe in
I only had time to change the broken hub and so spent the rest of the night with different toe in on each side Didn't drive too well all night, saved the night on the last qualifier and got into 5th place in the A final. Then the sound was lost for our final and so the race director had to say go instead of having a count down, after a stupid kid mucked it up the first time we were waiting to go, the second time I was totaly unready and the first thing I knew about the start of the race was 6th and 7th passing my on the grid
Final kind of went down hill from there, drove like a monkey and not helped at all by tyres that are now past there best, with the rears practicly bald Had one lap where I managed to crash/roll about three times With the bald rear tyres I just couldn't put the throttle down out of corners, although it was suprisingly good at half throttle, just not my style of driving
You better drive like a god next week KO, or I'll be paying EA to give you some lessons
11-03-2003, 02:46 PM
#6455
Originally posted by Herminator
Hey KO, you're a bad omen
You break your first Cuda part, the next race day I break my first Cuda part
....
Hey KO, you're a bad omen
You break your first Cuda part, the next race day I break my first Cuda part
....
Good thing I carried alot of spares to continue racing for the day.
11-03-2003, 03:02 PM
#6459
Originally posted by ImGoinRCn
I really just have one thing to say...
I really just have one thing to say...
His eyes look like he's being drinking aviation fuel too
11-03-2003, 03:22 PM
#6461
Sorry herm ........... man next week will be better so count on a good race in the UK with the cuda
Man I wish steve would answer his phone
you have a email steve
so count on a good race in the UK with the cuda Man I wish steve would answer his phone
you have a email steve
11-03-2003, 03:24 PM
#6462
Originally posted by ImGoinRCn
I really just have one thing to say...
I really just have one thing to say...
heath.......... isnt that the picture of you before you went to weight watchers
11-03-2003, 03:48 PM
#6463
Originally posted by rc-zombies
Gee...that sound familiar... my first race with the R2 Web... I broke the right suspension arms, hubs, c-blocks,..etc...
Good thing I carried alot of spares to continue racing for the day.
Gee...that sound familiar... my first race with the R2 Web... I broke the right suspension arms, hubs, c-blocks,..etc...
Good thing I carried alot of spares to continue racing for the day.
11-03-2003, 03:52 PM
#6465
what size sway bars do the web edition comes with and what number size springs?
just want to get a basic setup to start out with.
Thanks
just want to get a basic setup to start out with.
Thanks