Another hot day at the templestowe track.......

ph2t · Post by **ph2t** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 4:59 pm

Another hot day at the templestowe track but this didn't deter us dickheads.

Myself, betty.k and leonli rocked up and started laying down some rubber.

Betty had just scored his new iWaver TX and was having issues comming to grips with new technology! croikey! I dunno fellas, have a look at the pic below, would you trust this fella with your shit? haha...

Anyways, he got it going well after some tutoring from leon. I myself only managed to bring my IW-02 to the meet today. Just didn't have enough time to get all my chassis together for a decent run.

Track time people, nothing beats track time when you really want to tune your rig. It's the difference between a fun day and that spent more than half the time on the sidelines fixing stuff.

Given the heat, we all had to resort to using leon's high tech cooling system.

In the end we had lots of fun and got some serious time in. The day was soo hot that I never had one set of batteries cool. They would come off the charger hot and go straight into the chassis. 10 mintues later I would take them out and they would be even hotter!!!

I had 5 sets of batteries and I learnt an important lesson today. Deep cycle your batteries before the meet!!! Ensure your packs are matched and that the capacity is nice and healthly. At one point I was only getting 200mA into a set of 4 aaa's on the charger which gave sucky runtimes....

So in the end, I give you the players....

From left to right:

ph2t's IW-02 Ford Focus, betty.k's GT40 Xmod (with iwaver guts), leon's Modena 360 MR-01, and betty's Porsche Xmod (xmod guts)....

We also had some other chassis there that day. See below. On the left is leon's Micro RS4, recently upgraded to a 480 motor CF chassis. Also is betty's little propo monster!

In the end it was a great playing field. And the day wouldn't be complete without some video!!

So here it is! DivX format. 7MB in size.

http://www.woahnelly.com/stuff/iw/templ.avi

Cheers and enjoy....

ph2t.

PimpIke · Post by **PimpIke** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 6:43 pm

damn bitch why arentchu movin~?? CRIKEY!!

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 7:38 pm

That's a nice little gif you got there of you blowing past leon's Modena.

Then I noticed in the video you did that several times, and it occurred to me, why are you always coming up from behind on that last stretch? Car too damn fast to control on the curvy stuff?

Nice looking car BTW.

sg219 · Post by **sg219** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 8:47 pm

That kicks ass!!

Just being able to run a track!!

Any casulties from the meet? Everyone's rides come out alive?

It looks like you were puttin' a good smack down on them.

Post by **CaboWabo** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 9:19 pm

dude that looks like it was a fun time.

I wish I didn't have any shoes on so I could get a shot of these feet.

betty.k · Post by **betty.k** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 9:45 am

oh ha ha

only casualties were the servo motor in my porsche xmod, a screw fell out of my 1:10, a couple of tyres and wheels popped off but that was it. oh, misc body damage but that goes without saying.

ph2t forgot to give props to our cameraman on the day...... microamps!