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Been waiting for this write up and it's great that your final went well. I've been to Halifax a number of times and always have a terrible time, not sure why! Was a bit to far to come and watch. I've read about all the motor nonsense.... Did you check the battery after Round 4? The 1060s are plagued with going into limp mode. Setting them to nimh helps but they still do it even if you fit a large capacitor. Totally random. Mine can do it first run out at a meeting then fine rest of the day. If you stop and do no transmitter input for over 5 seconds they normally reset themselves and you are good to go. I've gone and put a 1080 into my Mchassis now as I was fed up with it. Totally random though, the one in my TT01 I don't think has ever done it. Love the trailer as well

I also find the yeah racing ones stiff. On the M08 you want softer rear but I suspect the red yeah racing ones are too stiff so you probably need to get hold of a set of the tamiya shorter 50mm springs, red/yellow/blue then run red read and yellow front to start with As a side note if you don't mind a bit of driving, Carlisle rc club run outdoors at Warwick Bridge and we run m chassis and a truck class, next round is a week Sunday https://www.facebook.com/groups/133652860127994/ A heads up though, M08 outdoors especially on that bumpy track is tricky, only tried mine briefly and had to laugh...will give it another go! My M07 however is great. Some of the trucks bounce all over the place as they have the kit friction dampers lol (oil filled allowed)

Great right up and photos. Never been there or even heard of the place till this year and I used to live down South! Partially disagree with the Mini throttle comment, I'm full throttle most of the time at Carlisle and never brake (just slight lifts on the tight corners) and I'm now within half a lap over 5 mins of the Core 15 Iconic fastest time despite using a torque tuned I suppose with a Core 15 you have tons more power so it's a finer line between spinning up with a loose diff or torque steering all over the place with a tight one.

It's a great track, not the biggest but great facilities (for the UK!), runs weekly on a Weds and fortnightly on a Sunday I think, burger/food hut open most of the time as well. Meetings nearly always run even if wet or worse as well. They normally host a round of the 4wd or FWD Touring car national series each year

He's done a video of a club evening there https://youtu.be/V5HglJyduuM?si=CxiuYE7ENYkVXn8v

Smaller one like a 1060 (not that I would recommend as some of them have limp mode issues) will fit in the rear section along with the receiver as well but your solution also looks good

Everywhere sadly these days. Well, where I am they are mostly electric motorbikes (not to be confused with pedal assisted ebike bicycles like the press seem to often!), thrashing along doing wheelies etc, often no helmet, balaclava pulled up. You know if they crash and injure themselves or worse their families will be up in arms at the outrage...

Good write up. Were the trees full of parakeets as usual?

He races at my old local club Eastbourne in East Sussex every now and then ie http://rc-results.com/Viewer/Main/Listing?listingId=62285

I would if I was still in the area but that was when I was at Uni 25 years ago oh and I didn't race then. Good luck with the club, always good to see more around

Iconic cup? "Tamiya differential" so you can use a couple of ball diffs in the M03, Manta Ray and theres another, I tried one (splined as it happens), just couldn't get it tight and when it spun up it seemed to take ages to grip again so not really an improvement over the kit open geared diff which you can make good for about 3 minutes 14 seconds till it dumps the super sticky oil out or whatever you put in it

Qualified 4th, 2nd in the final I have some S grips but have yet to build them up. Yes the surface is really weird especially if you look close, its all random stones so you probably have say 25% of the normal contact patch of a typical tarmac surface, very weird. Still, grippy when dry although rough in places. It's been flooded a couple of times and sunk a bit which doesn't help! Whilst I have only driven Carlisle a couple of times in the wet as I wouldn't make the 70 min journey for a club meet if rain forecast, my local TC club used to race on wood floor with narrow mini pins so I'm used to that sort of driving. Actually those tyres might have worked best in Stock but I didn't have any with me and the rules may say slicks only Saw a couple complaining about hangovers at Broxtowe! Always rains in the lakes but hopefully the kayaking was good. Something I am planning to try in the future.

Not sure what tyres the mchassis lot were running in the wet. I saw Ian had slicks on for one of the wet qualifiers. The surface there is different to most and there weren't puddles as such so slicks probably still the best choice. If you go somewhere with a smooth sealed surface and get puddles then maybe a treaded tyre would work. I used the BRCA TC wets in Stock although I got out on slicks in R2 and 3 I think

Conditions were certainly tricky! Shame as it sounded like Saturday was good and the lap times confirmed it. A looser diff definitely better in the wet. I think Ian used his M05 btw after sorting the issues he had at Broxtowe. The pole man did something odd with his tyres going by a FB post and gave up after being lapped within the first minute. I had some kind of man death plague so didn't get there till the briefing then lost track of time unpacking and ended up the wrong end of the rostrum (for me) in Round 1, could barely see the car as my eyes were all glazed over! Other 3 rounds went better in general, ended up 4th in Stock. Final was spent battling with 2nd for 95% of it before finally getting past on the last lap to finish 2nd myself. Obviously wanted the win at my home track (although not been there since last October) but considering I spent most of the day dozing and suffering in my car, that will do. It was quite fun with 4wd driving in the slippy conditions.

They should still be available. They were designed by TheRCRacer I think and sold by this company, very cheap although shipping to Germany will add a bit https://www.fibre-lyte.co.uk/fl/cars/tamiya/m03ff02.html Looking back in my emails I sent them a mail to confirm pricing etc and they sent a paypal request sales@fibre-lyte.co.uk