Middleweight Challenge II (Feb 9 Series Start)
I was gonna put this in a new thread, but these cars are some "natural" middleweights so I put them here to maybe help out some new folks. The test track is 4 ft. high starting line about 12 feet downhill and 13 ft. straight away.
Here are some random "heavier" cars that I've been holding on to so I could do some testing. These cars are between 40 and 50 grams. Mostly castings I don't care for, but there might be a fast one in there so I thought I would try 'em out. The A-Team van or the Escalade are probably the favorites here if for no other reason they are the heaviest. I'll do some racing and let you know how it turned out.
Round one
That blue car got KILLED by several car lengths several times. It's so slow it makes me think there must be something wrong with it, but the wheels seem to turn.
A-Team van lost in the first round to the Baby buggy. Convincingly.
Here are the first round losers. With the Woody being the fastest by a pretty good margin.
From the underside the two slowest cars are displaying some of the traits of fast cars (which is why I bought them) but they are big time dogs.
Round 2
The Escalade (49.6 grams) gets off to a good start every time, but the Green MS-T Suzuka (41.0 grams) takes him on the straight away every time. (If this green thing keeps it up I might have to enter it in that Import race over at HWC.com.
The Baby Buggy (39.0 grams) beat up on the Gremlin (39.8 grams) by several cars lengths every time. The Baby Buggy is almost a wheel stander! A lot of the weight is in the back on this thing.
The Baby Buggy on the right reminds me a lot of "Way 2 Fast" or a Funny car the way it's arranged. (Look how clean those wheels are)
FINAL
These two cars ended up being super equally matched. I ended up running them 8 or 9 times before I got a two time consecutive winner. The Green Import ended up winning the whole shebang. But wait there's more...
I brought the Woody back because it lost to the Baby Buggy in the first round. I raced it against the Green Import. These two were pretty evenly matched, but the Import ended up beating it by a nose. So, these three cars turned out to be solid racers and the Woody is a pretty well know fast Hot Wheel so the other two are in good company....but wait there's more.
This GTO I built for the first Middleweight series. It was my second fastest car. It ended up somewhere in the middle of the pack overall in the series. So I raced it against the Green Import and the again these two are very evenly matched but the GTO is slightly faster. (It also weighs in at 56.8 grams.
There you go. That's all I got.
The woody went straight to the losers bracket, but is quite a bit faster than the other losers. We'll do some double elimination ect... and see where it ends up.
Great pics of the team cars TLD !!! Post office says mine should be there by thursday.
Carl, that will give me a good idea of how they perform against other middleweight modded carsand what to do next time around. Already have lots of ideas in mine head for other mods to race, been working on a few for a featherweight challenge.
Windswept Racing
woody with wheels.... i'm in !
Yes, the fastest car from this testing, I'll add weight and maybe some different wheels...we'll see how much I can slow these things down with my magic touch!
Speed Secret #28: Make sure the tires are clean. Even a small piece of debris stuck to the tire will slow a car down quite a bit.
Just for you I'm gonna blow those suckers off and run 'em again.
-edit. I ran 'em and that Blue car is getting nominated for the most beat up and punished losing Hot Wheel that I have raced in 2013.
I think that was before Carl had a race track at home. Racetrack and testing at home = Carl SuperStar!