Car Update

Hi all,

Been a while since I posted stuff about my car. It has been running really well the past few meetings, problem seems to be the guy behind the sticks at the minute!!

Recent upgrades are 12th kingpins and springs to the front:




This has helped make the car smoother.

I have been trying to get the weight of the car down to the 930gms limit (or as close as I can) but have been struggling. One problem I always suffered with is the size of the futaba receiver. I love futaba radio gear, bought an original 3VC with my life saving when I was 16 and used it for 10 years (its still being used by the guy that bought it off me as far as I am aware) and the only reason I upgraded was I got a bargin 3VCS 2.4ghz off ebay. The Futaba FASST system is brilliant and I never suffer from interferance problems with it. The only gripe I have is the size of the receiver for the stick handsets. Now I know there is a smaller R614 receiver but that doesn't work with the 3VC line of handsets.  I thought I was stuck with the rather large R603FS receivers but I happened to come across an article that mentioned another manufacturer that makes FASST compatible receivers. A quick bit of googling and I found a receiver that should work in a glider model shop! Next day it turns up and I have to say it is tiny! Its made by a manufacturer called FrSky and the its the TR4 model:

Granted it has two ariels coming out rather than 1 external and 1 internal but look at the size of it! Now this is the main thing which made me buy it........... IT WEIGHS BUGGER ALL!!

That is a 8.2gms weight saving, happy days! Dead easy to set up and I must say I was a bit dubious about using it because I hate interference problems but I used it Chesterfield club night and it was fine. It was a complete bargain as well. The normal Futaba R603FS is about £90 to buy. The FrSky TR4 was £24 plus shipping! Many thanks to Richard from http://www.t9hobbysport.com/ who got this to me next day! They have a great website with live stock levels, nice guys to deal with an quick shipping!

The BRCA AGM was held on Sunday, low turn out but I think things got changed for the better, GT10wise 2s cars need to be 1150gms minimum which should hopefully even things out. There is hopefully going to be 4 nationals next year as well. 

Well I won't be racing for a couple of weeks now :( but will post any changes I make to the car. 

Cheers