Bear Races recap - was Re: SInce it's slow, my traditional cruising tune thread

[smithma7 at gmail.com (Mike Smith)]

Thanks, Daun.  I must have missed it this year.  A great read, almost
like I was there.  :D

On 2/23/07, Daun Yeagley <vwdaun@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- Mike Smith <smithma7@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > BTW, I asked in D's thread on the 'tex and don't remember
> > seeing a
> > reply: What were the results of this past season's Bear
> > races?
>
>
> Mike - Here's a copy of Cathy's e-mail all about the Bear
> Races this year:
>
> As you know, Boxing day is the traditional Bear race. It's
> starting to feel
> like real racing. Our competition (my nephew, who has a
> modded GTI, and my
> brother, a professsional mechanic who does Monster Garage
> type stuff
> annually for the firefighter's big float competition) came
> up with a radio
> controlled Civic (their first radio controlled effort, they
>
> went with
> rocket powered last year). They visibly whitened when they
> saw ours,
> modelled after "my future daughter-in-law's" car. This
> being Melanie
> Simmons, one of Canada's fastest females, she's 22, has an
> alcohol rail
> that does 7s, and Adam is sure she's his soulmate.
> Our car sported an all aluminum chassis, sponsored by
> HeliLynx (where my
> son works). (I'm sure it didn't detract from their
> completion of the
> multiple helicopters they're working on). Alexander Keith
> provided the wing
> shell, which housed the battery. It was mounted on part of
> a (previously
> wrecked) Scirocco grille, with some Lexan structural parts.
>
> I love Lexan!
> We were going to attach it with titanium bolts, but we
> figured that was
> just going overboard. Drivetrain was from a carpet racer,
> same one we used
> last year, but I got some tire compound that really revived
>
> the grab of the
> slicks. Servos and radio stuff was scavenged from my Chris
> Craft, I really
> want to put it back together at some point, it's too sweet
> not to use. But
> I digress.
> The bear had been on a diet since last year, he'd shrunk
> down to the point
> where we were accused of removing his head, that's all you
> could see of
> him, and he had a cute little helmet and a roll cage to
> keep him safe.
> Sticker tuning was helpful in adding a few Hp, and the only
>
> downside of the
> build was the speed controller, it's a two speed
> mechanical, and would only
> go fast or super fast. It did good wheelies too.
> Anyway, I set up to take pictures and got nothing when ours
>
> shot out of the
> hole, it was just TOO fast. Theirs took easily three times
> as long to go
> down the track. Sort of like an import ricer against an
> alcohol rail in
> real life. Ours then proceeded to produce quite a bit of
> SMOKE!, video
> shows what appears to be a small fire up in the works. Mr
> Avionics didn't
> use enough cable ties, one of the power cables got tangled
> in the gears,
> and managed to burn through the main drive gear. So it was
> a one run
> wonder. But what a run! We've already planned a new car for
>
> next year
> anyway. 7 years we've been doing this, with only one loss.
> We still need to
> find enough adult beverages for a "meeting of the
> sanctioning body" to cook
> up next year's rules. Ours will most likely go amphibious
> anyway, so we'll
> be ready for whatever.
> That's the report.
> Oh, and Santa was good to me, there were tools and go fast
> parts under the
> tree. Which is always cool!
> Cathy
>
>
>
>
> Daun Yeagley - Wilmington Ohio
> '81 Scirocco S (Deiter)       '86 Scirocco 8v
> '88 Scirocco Slegato (Gino!)  '88 Scirocco 16v
> '96 Passat GLX Wagon          '56 Cessna 172
> The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts - Ehrlich's Law.
>
>
>
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-- 
Mike
'86 red 16v: Red 5 (aka der Jahrtausendfeierfalke)
'05 Indigo Blue GTI 1.8T: Bib
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