Smoky Mountain event details and sign up list.

My cars were mailed out this morning. Expected delivery is Monday. Sent another 2.5 inline entry. Can it be added at #12 please. I put that number on it. Looking forward to the event. Thanks.

There are some real road warriors in this group. The 70 Camaro and GTX I've had since I was single digit age but have been repainted. GTX was ugly yel/org #43 Nascar and the Camaro was the wht/blue #3 version. The 95 Camaro and the Firebird are my MM/PS cars that I have run everytime I've entered that class. The Camaro is an Eagle Racing resin body. None of my cars are exceptionally fast, but I hope they will be competitive. Tuning just didn't seem to want to go my way this time. I am looking forward to seeing how much difference your power supplies make...if any. Good luck to everyone!

My cars are headed your way Dave as of today.

I have some of the cars from when my boys were still crawling around, I of course bought the cars for them when they were first born, so that the big kid could race them. Fortunately I have and understanding wife.  Even way back then I mostly drag raced them.
  I have found that the power supplies make a big difference over the 10 amps I previously had with the high amp draw cars such as the unlimiteds where the cars picked up about 5-7mph. With the 2.5 cars there is a definite difference of about 1-3 mph. On the slower classes it starts to make less and less of a difference, a stock 14 ohm AFX or T jet will show no difference over a 10 amp power supply. The PSO cars will be slightly faster here, maybe .5 mph, same goes for the inline stocks. 

Noted on the challenge. Hope I remember all of them. I will ask for a reminder when all the PSO cars arrive. One SS scratched off the list.

I have called out Kiwi for#4 spot. Eagle has called me out for #5. Do I race Eagle first or do I race Kiwi first and Eagle races the loser?

 
Yes Al, ETs also improved. As with the MPH the Unlimited cars benefited the most dropping the quickest ET by about .05. As you know that is a huge difference.  2.5s were the next beneficiary dropping .01-.02. Some slight difference was observed with 6 ohm cars my guess would be in the .005 range there. I think the PSO cars will run slightly quicker here. More in the ET dept because the initial start is where they draw the most current. The MPH for them has been similar to MPH at the other recent races but they ET slightly quicker here.
 I run power taps at the start, middle and finish of the track with #10 wire firing thru Hi Amp relays. This way the current does not have to flow thru the start button/controller which I have had no failures with. The track is also wired with a switch to allow independent lane control or simultaneous.
 These 2 supplies have built in short protection so I do not have to worry about smoking something if something shorts across the rails, I do not even have a fuse in the line because of this and I have had an occasional excessive load on the track.