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lincpimp · 11.11.2009, 02:50 AM

Nice looking truck.

Just a tip here, get your radar guy to stand where the truck will max out and just point the radar gun at where it will start. Closer to the ground is better. I can see him moving the gun as the truck goes by, this will produce false readings.

When I was testing my 10th scale tc for speed, I was doing the same thing, and got readings all over the place. Put the radar girl (my wife!) at the very end of the run and told her to just point the gun at the starting line. Worked like a charm, as long as I shut down at the same point readings were about 1 mph off, so very repeatable. I use the same gun you have, BTW.

I also found that moving her around would allow me to squeeze a few mph out of the car. Best run was 68mph, but I had her move about 300ft father away (more for saftey purposes) and gave the car about 50 more feet of full throttle run, gained 6mph in just 50 feet!!!!. If I had more room the car should have done 80mph easy. Don't laugh, it is a bone stock tamiya tt-01 tc with a feigao 380c 6s motor, MM, and at the time I was running maxamps 4000 20c (my ass) 3s lipos (had about 350 bucks in the whole deal). I need to rebuild her and try it out with a good lipo and more room.

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lincpimp Check out my huge box! Offline Posts: 11,935 Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Slidell, LA	11.11.2009, 02:50 AM Nice looking truck. Just a tip here, get your radar guy to stand where the truck will max out and just point the radar gun at where it will start. Closer to the ground is better. I can see him moving the gun as the truck goes by, this will produce false readings. When I was testing my 10th scale tc for speed, I was doing the same thing, and got readings all over the place. Put the radar girl (my wife!) at the very end of the run and told her to just point the gun at the starting line. Worked like a charm, as long as I shut down at the same point readings were about 1 mph off, so very repeatable. I use the same gun you have, BTW. I also found that moving her around would allow me to squeeze a few mph out of the car. Best run was 68mph, but I had her move about 300ft father away (more for saftey purposes) and gave the car about 50 more feet of full throttle run, gained 6mph in just 50 feet!!!!. If I had more room the car should have done 80mph easy. Don't laugh, it is a bone stock tamiya tt-01 tc with a feigao 380c 6s motor, MM, and at the time I was running maxamps 4000 20c (my ass) 3s lipos (had about 350 bucks in the whole deal). I need to rebuild her and try it out with a good lipo and more room. Alot of Savage parts for sale!!!