Actually BENT my Ext CRT .5 Chassis!!

[BP-Revo]

Well, I hit up my local track, SoCal Raceway with MetalMan today (he ran his Hyper 8, and me my CRT .5). I ran for about an hour, and literally 5 minutes before MetalMan got there (he got there just before six, I was there at about four), I stuffed my front right tire into some PVC when landing a jump and broke an A-Arm and sheared a turnbuckle - a 4mm steel turnbuckle.

However, before this I landed on the crest of the third hump on the triple there and actually tweaked my chassis. Its not like, "bent bent", but you can tell its not flat and straight anymore.

In one way I felt a bit of me die, and in another way I sort of don't care (its not really gonna affect much if you ask me). Though I am rather impressed, and also somewhat annoyed about how easily this happened, since the chassis is milled from 1/8 inch 7075!!!

However, on the plus side, MetalMan brought his CRT .5 (but he had popped the endbell on his motor and is waiting on a Neu he ordered from Mike - well, waiting for Mike to get it from Neu, that is) and he let me cannibalize his truck so I could get running again (thanks MetalMan!).

Also, I checked out a camera from school, since I'm part of the digital video production class/team (which is pretty exclusive - you have to apply to get on it, and its only about 30 people). Its a very high quality camera (costs like $1300+). All in all, we got about 20 minutes of footage, so I'll edit that down and post it up when I get a chance.

I know I'll be ordering some parts though, and keeping some spares. However, the CRT is one heck of a truck. I still need to do a few tweaks to suspension and other stuff...

Most of the runtime was 2S Lipo, which is probably the best for the track. 3S is absolutely ballistic. With better tires and more practice, I could probably run 3S on the track consistently, and just annihilate everything else. But today, 3S was just too much (I hadn't driven on a track, or generally driven an RC for about a year, so I was quite rusty). Plus, to add to it, I was having problems overclearing stuff on 2S, you can imagine what it was like on 3S!

I have learned two important lessons from this track day (its better to over jump than under jump (bending your chassis on the crest of a lump is WAY worse than having some chassis slap...), and also to carry some spares! Apparently the little CRT isn't as strong as my G2R... (not even clipping concrete at full speed was enough to do anything more than make it spin out).