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Post by gnome on Nov 4, 2018 17:42:11 GMT -7
Round 3 - Street Jets
Round 3, Race 1 - Ecbill vs. Hairy Canary Round 3, Race 2 - Gnome vs. Gnome Street Jet Final Final Round Ecbill vs. Gnome CONGRATS again to Ecbill, that car rocks! Time for a little break... will post some on the Gasser Races a little bit later, hope you enjoyed the Street Jet Video.
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Post by sandfly on Nov 4, 2018 19:20:56 GMT -7
Awesome coverage so far keep it up
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Post by onefastmustang on Nov 4, 2018 20:14:05 GMT -7
Great event and awesome coverage
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Post by gnome on Nov 5, 2018 8:21:17 GMT -7
Thanks for doing this gnome! Sure glad the PotLuck woke up and turned in a respectable qualifying, a little better than home field. The Yellow Truck (Will He Wee Wee) is doing about the same as at home. No problem happy to do my part.it's been a learning curve, i think that i was a little to gentle with the cars in fear of damaging one . We ran your truck a little more and was able to get a .940 thank you very much for trusting me with your cars . |
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Post by gnome on Nov 5, 2018 8:40:07 GMT -7
Been a busy day and haven't had a chance to keep up on the racing. Congratulations to Ebill you had it figured out. Way to go. And to Gnome for runner up and doing a awesome job hosting a very cool race. Good Luck to everyone tomorrow. Rick Thanks Rick, we had fun and yes ecbill has it figured out, bolth his cars were smoken fast with bolth of my cars doing better than expected. You're not to be left out though your falcon performed extremely well and is in the running for best in show. |
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Post by jbailey on Nov 6, 2018 11:45:24 GMT -7
I'm curious if you fellas would mind sharing how much weight you were running is these Street Jets and how it was distributed(roughly how much front and rear, or center)? I enjoyed watching the videos of these and the gassers wandering down the track, especially my cars that looked like they were loose the whole ride lol.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2018 12:38:23 GMT -7
in addition would it be OK to get a group picture of the bottom of the cars? no identities
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Post by dave632 on Nov 6, 2018 13:15:11 GMT -7
I'm curious if you fellas would mind sharing how much weight you were running is these Street Jets and how it was distributed(roughly how much front and rear, or center)? I enjoyed watching the videos of these and the gassers wandering down the track, especially my cars that looked like they were loose the whole ride lol. The street jets were something new to me as I am a proponent of traction magnets. I used some t jet wheel weights in the front of both cars that are made of brass which I imagine are used in some road races that do not allow traction magnets. I used poster putty in the rear, about as much as I could fit in the back of the body. Don't know the weight distribution but the red Dodge was near the limit with 29 grams. The white Camaro was at about 26 grams. At times the cars would run better with no weight but they were very inconsistent then. As you saw with all the de slots these cars were tough to get down the track. The 14 ohm cars would murder the low ohm cars to the 330' mark then some of the low ohm power would get to the track but they still spun all the way down the track at 20v on my track. |
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Post by cozee on Nov 6, 2018 14:53:10 GMT -7
I'm curious if you fellas would mind sharing how much weight you were running is these Street Jets and how it was distributed(roughly how much front and rear, or center)? I enjoyed watching the videos of these and the gassers wandering down the track, especially my cars that looked like they were loose the whole ride lol. The street jets were something new to me as I am a proponent of traction magnets. I used some t jet wheel weights in the front of both cars that are made of brass which I imagine are used in some road races that do not allow traction magnets. I used poster putty in the rear, about as much as I could fit in the back of the body. Don't know the weight distribution but the red Dodge was near the limit with 29 grams. The white Camaro was at about 26 grams. At times the cars would run better with no weight but they were very inconsistent then. As you saw with all the de slots these cars were tough to get down the track. The 14 ohm cars would murder the low ohm cars to the 330' mark then some of the low ohm power would get to the track but they still spun all the way down the track at 20v on my track. Brass front ends are common place in T-Jet racing, check out The Fray. Somewhere buried in the dark recesses of the Dungeon is a couple pair of weighted rear rims. In the past I had used them on over powered T-Jets to calm them down under hard acceleration but they'd still fly on the straights. Downfall of proxy racing is not being able to use one's controller set to a specific car. A choke works wonders! |
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Post by jbailey on Nov 6, 2018 15:33:14 GMT -7
I'm curious if you fellas would mind sharing how much weight you were running is these Street Jets and how it was distributed(roughly how much front and rear, or center)? I enjoyed watching the videos of these and the gassers wandering down the track, especially my cars that looked like they were loose the whole ride lol. The street jets were something new to me as I am a proponent of traction magnets. I used some t jet wheel weights in the front of both cars that are made of brass which I imagine are used in some road races that do not allow traction magnets. I used poster putty in the rear, about as much as I could fit in the back of the body. Don't know the weight distribution but the red Dodge was near the limit with 29 grams. The white Camaro was at about 26 grams. At times the cars would run better with no weight but they were very inconsistent then. As you saw with all the de slots these cars were tough to get down the track. The 14 ohm cars would murder the low ohm cars to the 330' mark then some of the low ohm power would get to the track but they still spun all the way down the track at 20v on my track. Thanks Dave! I'm just trying to get ideas for next time and some education. It seems there is no "rules" to what will work, different days, tracks and bodies are all going to play a role. On mine I added weight clear up to 29.79 grams and saw a significant loss of speed, the sweet spot seemed to be around 24 and I think I ended up at 24.67 grams. |
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Post by gnome on Nov 7, 2018 7:05:39 GMT -7
in addition would it be OK to get a group picture of the bottom of the cars? no identities Sorry al the cars were already at the post office when you posted this .give me a day or two and I'd be happy to post a picture of my cars . The el gnomeno has a cool story, after watching the site for two years i decided to build a pancake comp car to try out for the list at jj's first rece of 2018 and joined nitro slots only to find out t jets arnt what we list race . There was just enough time before the race that i was able to get a 3 and 4 gear put together .the gnomeno was sent n as a bracket car that if i remember correctly made it to the quarter finals to be taken out by Gts and i think that was also GTS,s first race and eagle racing was there to help thank you everyone gnome |
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Post by gnome on Nov 7, 2018 7:24:33 GMT -7
I'm curious if you fellas would mind sharing how much weight you were running is these Street Jets and how it was distributed(roughly how much front and rear, or center)? I enjoyed watching the videos of these and the gassers wandering down the track, especially my cars that looked like they were loose the whole ride lol. Good morning J my two cars waigh in at 28.7 for the mustang and26.9 for finish wait and started the race at 28.5 .for the gnomeno ,the gnomeno lost a wait when the mustang ran into it .all of my wait is distributed low and evenly maybe a little more towards the front. All of the wait is in between the axle centers. I feel your car would have done better if the rear tires had gotten more attention .i peeled some of the over cast from them and with no other changes was able to get a .727 out of it ,which was good for 5th place on the board |
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Post by hairycanary on Nov 7, 2018 17:02:38 GMT -7
I'm curious if you fellas would mind sharing how much weight you were running is these Street Jets and how it was distributed(roughly how much front and rear, or center)? I enjoyed watching the videos of these and the gassers wandering down the track, especially my cars that looked like they were loose the whole ride lol. Jbaily My StreetJet was not engineered very good. I almost gave up on it because I was running out time. I used the worst body, the Henry J it's two story's tall, and I stuck thin lead sheet to the under side of the body front and rear. It was way to top heavy. So I sent it anyway and it did ok. My total weight was 28 grams and the weight is pretty close to being distributed the same front and rear. It made a big difference once I got close when I started adding and taking weight off. A 1/4 gram one way or the other was big. I got better ideas for next time. Rick |
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Post by gnome on Nov 8, 2018 12:04:09 GMT -7
Here are my car pics, notice that two of these are new Dash Chassis.  |
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Post by dave632 on Nov 8, 2018 14:18:35 GMT -7
I'm curious if you fellas would mind sharing how much weight you were running is these Street Jets and how it was distributed(roughly how much front and rear, or center)? I enjoyed watching the videos of these and the gassers wandering down the track, especially my cars that looked like they were loose the whole ride lol. Jbaily My StreetJet was not engineered very good. I almost gave up on it because I was running out time. I used the worst body, the Henry J it's two story's tall, and I stuck thin lead sheet to the under side of the body front and rear. It was way to top heavy. So I sent it anyway and it did ok. My total weight was 28 grams and the weight is pretty close to being distributed the same front and rear. It made a big difference once I got close when I started adding and taking weight off. A 1/4 gram one way or the other was big. I got better ideas for next time. Rick Rick mounting the weight high is not a bad idea if you are not going around corners as it allows maximum weight transfer to the rear. That is what a lot of the old drag cars did because the tires way back when were not to good and all the weight you could get to the rear was useful. My cars were near the max weight in the street jet class because I had to add a lot of weight. There was still a lot of wheelspin however. |
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