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Ben Lipman Goo Roo NT Soarer TT manual, plus TT track car
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Tuesday, March 09, 2010 - 10:10 pm, by: Ben Lipman(Ben12a)
Andrew McKellar wrote on Monday, March 08, 2010 - 10:50 pm:
Little bit more than 15 or 20mm to play with fella.
I though there was a minimum radius for the actual leading edge though. I was looking in the general requirements I think. I'll have a look later. At the moment mine is 6mm (because I used 12mm plywood).
Damien- what I want from CAMS (or AASA) is a category that is a stepping stone up from lapsprints. Somewhere to go after your modified daily weekend lapper has got out of hand. I'm not talking superlap, but a race series. I have no idea how you would keep it grass roots as it is natural to want to win, and as soon as it attracts any sort of attention, someone will come in with a bag of money smash everyone, and then you'll be spending serious money just to keep up. Drag racing seems to have a class for everyone, and there are a lot of guys who progress their cars 'up' through the classes over a number of years.
Superlap is just big dollar lapsprints, but I love the freedoms they have and the difference in machines. (not a dig at Superlap)
Anyway, back to the track car. I am now about to take a big step and install a serious cage. It should end up looking remarkably similar to Andrew's beast (at least the cage will). Basically the track up here closes after the V8's in June so I'll have 6 months where I can't do any serious speed events. Over the next few months I plan to assemble a bunch of parts for installation in the second half of the year.