Dave,
We have nitros every year at the bash(as you surely remember from year's past). Most of the local guys run nitro, and I wouldn't exclude them from my race - especially when they show up every year to support me. :)

Cool...I remember, just wanted to hear it from the man in charge...I've got maybe 6 or 7 nitro guys coming along this year and this will put their minds at ease.

See you in a few weeks!

Looking forward to it. :)

Well as the weekend nears I've been checking the weather. Chance for thunderstorms:-( I'm gonna have my RC8T, CRT.5, and RC18t so if it rains I'll be prepared for some indoor running.

How about a headcount of who'll b there now that we are this close

I cant make it, MMM in my car failed sunday.

take lots of pics :)

I'll be there. We have a points series race at my local track on Saturday, hope everything holds up to two consecutive days of punishment. I am brining a bunch of guys who go to my track, some electric guys and some nitro guys. We are trying to get a head count, I think it's going to be 6 or 7 but I'm not sure and if anyone breaks at the points race they may not feel doubling down. Should be a good mix of Truggy, buggy and MT.

I'm in Buggy, Truggy, MT and CRT.5 - Bringing a friend with my spare Truggy and CRT .5...

I'm sure you can get a borrowed unit for the bash. In fact I thought mine had went, but I was able to fix it, but in the meantime several people offered to lend me one for the day. I know its a drive and expense for you, but if its just the esc you lack I know you can get one. Hate to see anyone miss out on the Bash.

Otherwise:

I am bringing:

Truggy
Revo
CRT.5

Maybe maybe maybe my nitro Savage XL, but I had to take out the DSM RX to put into the Revo and the only other radio I have is a crappy AM unit. At the very best it may be fun just to putz around on the track and maybe try some jumps with.

I really hope we can field a good batch of minis for a race. Biggest race I've done w/ the .5 was a race against RCM Mike and Chris. Chris and I dualed well, but Mike was killing us. Lots of fun on the massive 1/8th scale track tho! Sure we could do 1/16 Revos in the class as well, they are not that different.

nah my parents wont let me go anyways.. my dad has something large up his backside..

Is bbq still on?

Make it your boot and go anyway :lol:

Yep, bbq is still on as far as I'm concerned. Mike said he would go, I'm there, and god knows who else! Hopefully you make it Chris. Gotta check w/ JHautz and see where he will be at. He was drving out w/ someone else I thought as well. Not too many RSVPs, but I was expecting that as accommodations are so pricey and not that many live in the area anyway.
I was mostly looking at this longterm as a tradition. I know its going to be hard for a number of people to be out the extra expense of coming up this year.

raced on the barn track a few weeks back and i can truthfully say that the track is dialed. fast and challenging...........long front straight with a raised pit lane and covered drivers stand. the race that i was in was mostly nitro but, did have about 10 elec buggies(no truggy's or mt's). the electrics cleared all the BIG jumps with no problems at all.................the track and the track management are both great..............

Ryan - At some point can you post up details again... thanks

Anyone got any pics/video of the current layout?

yeah thats me on the left. What a day that was!

man those things must fly, dont you see the lipos and 2215 in the red one?:lol:

There is a pic of the current track somewhere on here. However I'm at work and using my phone so it's really hard to loom through dozens of threads and posts to try finding it.

I thought I had one, but I can't find it. Its a nice track and bigger than ever. Unless they redo it this week, its more lg jumps and turn and no washboard or rhythm sections. Big triple in the back.

what details were you wanting Chris, the BBQ? I need to bump that thread...

This pic...http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y25...09Panarama.jpg

Ah ha! That's it :)

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y25...09Panarama.jpg

Awesome find guys!

One of the nicer layouts the guys at the barn have put together in a while (IMHO) - Nice straights, rythems, and pit lane works great... Should be an awesome time again.... Looking forward to seeing you all at the track..... ( And almost forgot a nice tripple down the back stretch for a little excitement....):gasp:

no no no no NOOOOOO!!!!!!!
 

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HAIL?!! WTF! HAIL? What is this bull$#!+?

Thank god I bought those MAxAmPs waterproof lipos so I can run in a downpour, tho I better IM Jason to see if they are hailproof as well...

Yeah rain is always a possibility in hot weather. I will be prepared to race my CRT.5 and rc18t inside if it comes down to it. I really don't want to give my truggy a mud bath like I gave my revo at last years bash.

Went through the truggy today. Four new shocks, a fresh front diff, and fixed the sway bar issue. I got all my stuff put in a large container ready to load into my truck. I have a few last minute thongs to do when I get home from work about 9:30, if all goes well I will be on the road no later than 11pm. 5-6 hours of sleep in my truck will be better than 2 in my bed

Results are posted here:

http://results.thebarnfloor.com/inde...onster+Bash%2F

It was a great day up at the Barn...

Yea, Had a blast out there. Not a very good day on the track for me, but a great time for sure.:yes:

Pretty much the same story for me! One smoked Monster, followed by all kinds of gremlins with both 1/8th and 1/12th truggies. Also my ankle is still swollen and sore from getting hit by someone's truggy during the A-main. Sorry for messing up whoever hit me but the damn Marshall threw my dead truck in the middle of the straightaway so it was sitting sideways! On the plus side....Mike had a MMM to sell me so I could still run ( don't know why it wouldn't work during the main cause it works fine now and I haven't done anything to it, I even left the unused battery in it from the main). I think I have the CRT.5 figured out, just a stupid little issue. Look forward to next year!

Damn dude, that was me. I meant to ask you about that... :( I didn't even see you there at the end of the straight in the track until just before the truck hit you and I was going WOT. Was not expecting stationary objects to be there. Hope you are alright.

I had horrible luck also, didn't finish a single race w/ the old Revo (should have sold it and got that slash instead...)
Truggy was going ok, but the main was awful, anything that could go wrong did go wrong, including hitting Joe apparently. (esc wire came out of RX, had to pull it off, got bitched at by race announcer for jumping track after marshall put me in the wrong place and I drove over pipe to get back to my part of the track, tried to drive around a pile up nicely only to get hit by some guy pulling out of it then being picked up last...and apparently slammed into Joe's leg at 35-40mph) I don't understand how I didn't end up in last place on that one. Sure felt like it.

Lastly was the .5s. The one race that was going well all day, then I lose a stupid motor screw. I was able to quickly just pull it over, shove the motor back towards the spur with the one screw left, and put around like my grandma so it didn't DNF.


I felt much better after I was able to do the long jump contest. Got the F'ing Revo to do a full backflip on two or three jumps. Best I got was two laps on that thing all day, but somehow coming down from 15ft high backflips repeatedly doesn't break it. wtf.

Oh well, was lots of fun anyways (after I get over being so pissed how it went lol) and it was nice seeing you all again. Jhautz can't complain too much as I know he was tearing around in the mini-hyper. Nice racing. :intello:

The escs had a hard day. Luckily both my v2s made it thru, but saw one Tekin on fire, (Joe and I marshalled that one :) ) an I don't know how many MMMs died. Thanks for that at least.

One more thing, big thanks to walter (HnC) for repeatedly lending me Revo tranny parts as mine kept grenading on me

... not that it helped me actually finish a race (3x tranny failures) but the backflips kicked ass.

i think this needs to be twice a year event. i had a blast. contrary to some i didnt touch a tool all day and my truggy was hooked up. was upsetting to see so many esc problems. i thought that was a thing of the past.

It was a gremlin day for sure - my revo drove to start line and then refused to start the race... Gave up on it but tried again later and it worked fine until it busted a rod end at the end of the first lap in the main...

I hate bullets - managed to pull out two sets of motor leads whilst racing and a set of motor mount screws backed out...

All in all though no "serious" breakages and a great day...

Sadly my best run of the day was the first buggy qualifier when I accidentally ran with the nitros! I got my only 40 second lap of the day in that race...

I just don't race enough but it does feel great to land perfectly a tripple...

PS I know of three MM that played up (joe's, mine and 1 other - but the first two are working fine now), 1 tekin smoked and mike had an issue with one of his tekin setups (might have been motor though)

Def a day of gremlins! My first mmm went up in smoke, new one acted up during the main but seems to be 100% now after doing absolutely nothing to it. The mm on my CRT.5 wasn't powering up the rx, but the rx had power, later found I needed to re-bind after switching some stuff around. Fun day overall though. The Tekin on fire was pretty amazing!

It looked like you guys had a blast for sure. Something came up and I couldn't make it this year. Did anyone take pics and videos of the event?

Finnster- my ankle will be fine, swelling is almost gone, just black & blue and a little tender still but much better. Not your fault, I blame a rookie marshall for throwing my truck into the lane at the end of the straight! Thought I had enough time to get it off but you must have been flying cause there was no one coming around the corner onto the straight when I stepped onto the track.

Lutach- there was pictures and video taken but I have no idea by who! I never bothered to pull my camera out.

I'm pretty new to the game but have been running at the Barn since winter (indoors) and had never raced outside till this weekend. I burned up a servo in practice on my (new to me)RC8 which I had never raced before so I pulled out the trusty Slash and it ran better than I was driving until I got a little behind on my steering and ripped a shock off on the oval track inside the barn. I got to meet RC Monster Mike and the Illinois boys...11 hours?? You guys are hardcore. Plus the usual cast of characters which is always pretty entertaining.

I think we need a forum name to real name translation. I know some of you guys but not all...I was pitting outside with a crew of mostly nitro guys from my "home" track so I missed out on much of the indoor action...

I'm Chris the guy with the RCD hat...