Our MA 2014 cars

[Maglev]

On the left, Car name: SOARING, with Eagle picture hunting in the Open Adults graphite race

On the right, Car name: SEE YA, with leopard print hunting in the Open Scouts oil race.

Ready to party on Sat! Bring it on!

Proxy racing again this year.

Huge shout out to my buddies BRACKETRACER, BLUE LIGHTNING and SPIRIT for helping me in building these and John of course for most of the supplies!!

MAGLEV

 

[MOFAST]

Good looking cars Maglev! I'll take some pictures for you at the race now that I know what your cars look like.

 

[Maglev]

Thanks MOFAST, I'd appreciate the live photos and if possible a video of the live run of any car in any one lane would be amazing! Thanks in advance, we'll be rooting for your cars too and good luck to all the NPWDRL racers - let's show them how it's done and have a strong showing at the Scouts National race.

MAGLEV

 

[Guest]

Great looking cars!!!

Good luck to you and everyone else going to MA!

 

[DEW36]

Good looking cars!!! Good luck!!!

 

[IAE Racing]

great looking cars!

 

[ngyoung]

Cool cars. Those are unique styled fenders, having the fins along the body.

 

[bracketracer]

Hope they run fast for you!

 

[speed bump]

Great cars maglev. What are u using on the front wheels for spacers. It does not look like washers to thick. Just trying to see what guys are doing there. I looking for that .0007 to get my first sub 3.

 

[PDHRacing]

Great looking cars Maglev, good luck with the race.

 

[Papa V Racing]

Dude - Those are some Awesome cars... I will be watching them as well... Hope the bring you home so Hardware this weekend... Very Nice Mag!!!!

 

[Kinser Racing]

Cool beans!

 

[Maglev]

Thanks guys, keeping fingers crossed they run fast, looks are not important but speed is. But I try to build cars that look cool while ripping it!

Ngyong - the unique side fender inside body covers/ fins are to keep the dirty air out of the canted wheels. John's GEE fenders give protection from the front but expose the canted inside back wall of the DFW to catch air. I had to design and shape inside covers to block this air - my home made wind tunnel test is that I blow air from the front with a hair drier and adjust the angle of the fender and height of the cover until the DFW stops spinning!

Here's the challenge, with thin 1/4" bodies with tapered front end and small tip of the GEE fender you have to build a small balsa side wall for supporting the side cover and providing a surface to glue it on to! Here's where I use the Combo of CA gel glue and baby talcum powder followed by finger spreading and sanding until it all blends into a smooth surface. Then I attach the side cover cut out of airplane modeling plastic stuck with CA glue. Have fun building these takes time but very rewarding to see the DFW stop spinning and take on the hair drier test!

Maglev

 

[speed bump]

Thanks for info

 

[GravityX]

Looks good! I see some interesting inside fender fairings.

Hope they run well for you! I'll see then on the track this weekend. Good luck!

 

[Maglev]

Speed Bump - the thick spacer for the DFW on SEE-YA (leopard print scout oil car) is a custom made 3/16" thick teflon spacer cut out from a 1/4" diameter teflon rod. Next a 9200 hole was drilled through it while holding the teflon disc inside a 1/4" hole in a wooden block. Stick a Q-tip into the drilled hole to pull out the teflon disc mount the other end of the Q-tip onto a hand drill and sand one surface of the teflon spacer into a concave shape using micro mesh, polish it smooth upto 12K micro mesh. Then install the spacer with the concave polished surface facing the inner hub of the flush cut MA nitro DFW. The purpose is to push the DFW out a bit so that the car runs straight and prevents the diagonally opposite rear wheel from touching the guide rail. I did not need a thick spacer on the other car as I did not make a 1/16" cut into the DFW side of that car. A slow roll test will reveal when you have the spacing and car alignment right. You do not need such a thick spacer for John's Cheetah's or regular BSA DFW's as their inner hub is not cut flush with the outer edge. You may use Delrin rather than Teflon for making your spacers for lower friction. Kudos to my guru SPIRIT for teaching me how to do this. Good luck!

MAGLEV

 

[speed bump]

Thanks maglev. If have some Teflon rods will try my hand at that. Thanks again!! Just trying to learn on my own is hard but I have never done anything the easy way.

 

[Maglev]

Although both the oil and graphite cars ran slightly faster than our cars at last years MA race, we did not place as well. The competition got much faster this year kudos to all the NPWDRL racers who lit up the track with smoking cars.

See Ya (leopard print) ran an avg of 2.9342 and squeezed in the 12th place out of 32 cars in the scouts open oil cars; while

Soaring (Eagle picture) ran an avg of 2.9791 and was 22 out of 72 cars in the open adult graphite cars race.

Guess I'll be building new cars from scratch for the May race.

Maglev

 

[speed bump]

How 2.97 graphite car. Congrats on that. Man my cars are slow!!! Very slow.