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I raced J as a kid, and then politics, school and life came along and I decided to take a step back from boat racing. I eventually ended up professionally racing 1/24 scale slot cars. The hobby was great, and I ended up making thousands of dollars while racing which helped pay for college. After college, I ended up coming back to boating, clearly not for the money, but for the fun.
Our Monthly newsletter (which you had to buy on the newsstand) offered up great information on races, good advertisements, etc. - similar to what Propeller can be again with some help.
One feature the magazine had, which I really appreciated, was every winner from a big race (there was 4/5 BIG classes at a BIG race) had a photo of their car taken and all the car's specs were written down (very much like when you set a record) and then were published for all to see.
I was then able to take this data, see how my car setup was different tune appropriately.
What I am willing to do, and challenge others, is to voluntarily offer up this information, for the good of all.
So, to get it started and for example purposes, I will give everyone the specs I ran on the OSY 400 for the last 4 years at Depue and set seven records with.
Boat
Boat Name: Blue Devil
Boat MFG: Altralight
Boat Bottom Width: 36"
Trip Length: 77"
Boat weight with Driver: 360
Fin: Tietze
Paint and Graphics: Penway Media
Motor
Make: Y302
Block Originally Machined by: ?
Foot Originally Machined by: Cronk
Head Machined by: John Peeters
Crank Balance: John Myers
Timing: 260
CC's: +1.5 legal
Maintained By: John Peeters
Prop
MFG: Dewald
Tuned: WayneCo
Shape: 4-blade Tulip/Cleaver
Pitch: 11.75"
Diameter: 6.6"
Rake: 5
Setup
Tuck: 1/8" over 12"
Depth: 1/8"
Fuel: 1/2 110 Racing / 1/2 87 non-ethonal Pump
Oil: Dumade Castor
Ratio: 32:1
The people I am challenging to offer this type of information are divisional winners, national winners, local races with elims (16 or more boats). I would like to see this information printed in Propeller as well as her on HR.
I was so shocked when I started to read those slot car magazines that everyone would offer up information so easily. I ask one of the leaders in the sport and he said he'll tell you everything he uses on the cars, even build it for you, but now you need to beat him on the race track - seems simple enough to me!
Is there any other information that would be applicable to this type of form?
Our Monthly newsletter (which you had to buy on the newsstand) offered up great information on races, good advertisements, etc. - similar to what Propeller can be again with some help.
One feature the magazine had, which I really appreciated, was every winner from a big race (there was 4/5 BIG classes at a BIG race) had a photo of their car taken and all the car's specs were written down (very much like when you set a record) and then were published for all to see.
I was then able to take this data, see how my car setup was different tune appropriately.
What I am willing to do, and challenge others, is to voluntarily offer up this information, for the good of all.
So, to get it started and for example purposes, I will give everyone the specs I ran on the OSY 400 for the last 4 years at Depue and set seven records with.
Boat
Boat Name: Blue Devil
Boat MFG: Altralight
Boat Bottom Width: 36"
Trip Length: 77"
Boat weight with Driver: 360
Fin: Tietze
Paint and Graphics: Penway Media
Motor
Make: Y302
Block Originally Machined by: ?
Foot Originally Machined by: Cronk
Head Machined by: John Peeters
Crank Balance: John Myers
Timing: 260
CC's: +1.5 legal
Maintained By: John Peeters
Prop
MFG: Dewald
Tuned: WayneCo
Shape: 4-blade Tulip/Cleaver
Pitch: 11.75"
Diameter: 6.6"
Rake: 5
Setup
Tuck: 1/8" over 12"
Depth: 1/8"
Fuel: 1/2 110 Racing / 1/2 87 non-ethonal Pump
Oil: Dumade Castor
Ratio: 32:1
The people I am challenging to offer this type of information are divisional winners, national winners, local races with elims (16 or more boats). I would like to see this information printed in Propeller as well as her on HR.
I was so shocked when I started to read those slot car magazines that everyone would offer up information so easily. I ask one of the leaders in the sport and he said he'll tell you everything he uses on the cars, even build it for you, but now you need to beat him on the race track - seems simple enough to me!
Is there any other information that would be applicable to this type of form?
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