New toy!!! Good... and bad. ;)

[glassdoctor]

Originally Posted by jhautz

Downside to racing it in nitro form is if you dont win then they will for sure say you are only winning cuz of the brushless setup. It works both ways. If you are gonna race it nitro. Win or your you could be opening pandoras box.:p

True... I was a little concerned about that, lol. Racing results? :013: :017:

Just what I hoped for :027:

I qualified pretty well with both the BL buggy and nitro truck. The competition is always tougher in buggy, btw. I'm guessing there was 30 buggies and 15 trucks.

Qualified 4th in buggy and 3rd in truck... very good for me. I beat out some fast guys in buggy mainly due to consistency in all three quals... so I overachieved there. In truck I could have been TQ with more time to work out the bugs.. I had 'nitro' issues, lol. :010:

I finished 2nd in truggy and won enough cash to pay for my race fees. Buggy wasn't so good.... I stunk it up in the main with a car that wanted to nose over on about half the jumps... bad. I think the rear was too low and I put the big battery in without checking ride height. I think it was slapping the rear, which kicks the rear up on certain jumps, sending the car nose-over. It was bad... :031:

But the results are awesome for silencing the critics who want to say it's not fair letting me run with them. My first race EVER with ANY nitro... first run EVER for this truck... first time EVER running this motor, etc... and I about kicked everyones butt with it. If only I had it running better.

We had issues with the brakes... throttle linkage... tuning... etc so it was a handful to drive sometiimes.