Kept putting the wrong tyres on all day. Really shit performance. I’d rather do it today than at the reigional. Balls. Picture is Taki Inoue, because I was as bad as he was today.
Optima Mid Last time out at Mendip, I pulled the lower steering hub king pin screw out with a glance along the straight barrier. Again. Looks like this casting is a bit Dairylea. Yeah Racing do a CNC aluminium replacement. Nobody had…
Cracking night’s racing! I fitted the Phat Bodies Rear wing to the old Mardave body. And it seems to have worked nicely, the whole car much more stable on the straight. Also got the ride height settings sorted at 3.2mm at the…
Busy, busy day. In the height of summer, RC meetings tend to be a bit less well attended. Either folk are on holiday, or they are going to the bigger events further afield that take advantage of the better weather. So running…
At Mendip, we have a Gary. Garys are useful things that restart generators all day when they keep conking out, patch in spare generators when the first one permanently pegs it, and a billion other things that you don’t realise need to…
The paint job looks even better in real life. The red is Hobbynox Red Pearl. An it has a very fetching colourshift effect between primary red, and it mostly is in the pictures, and a bright hot pink. Very chuffed with the results.
So the chassis is done. not sure about the servo and receiver which I might have to swap out. I have a Futaba Receiver in the Mission FT and a spare Etronix Servo left over from when I first got the KD.…
Managed to restrict myself to just Bags A & B yesterday so that I can geek out with Practice and Quali for the Monaco GP on the Telly while getting on with Bag C. Heaven 🙂
Ever since I was asked to join the Mendip comittee at the end of last year, it pretty quickly became aparent that the whole year was basically going to Pivot on this meeting. In the intervening months, which seem to have whistled…
