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[Noose]

Stealth testing.Cool.

[slotcarone]

Haruki, why do you think you don't have a "sweet" motor? Unless it sounds like a total dud I have found there is really only one way to tell how a PS will perform and that is on the track that the race is on. See you soon!!!

[Preston M]

Haruki, why do you think you don't have a "sweet" motor? Unless it sounds like a total dud I have found there is really only one way to tell how a PS will perform and that is on the track that the race is on. See you soon!!!

Mike is totally right. I have had motors pull 3 amps, and they were nowhere near as fast as a motor that pulled 1.5. It all depends on how your car is set up. So take all you motors, break them in, and get them in those cars and experience this mystery for your self.

[usadar]

Mike & Preston,

Thanks a lot for your good advises
I will bring all the PS's to Port Jefferson to test on the cars.
Until then I will dip & keep them in Japanese SAKE to make it SWEET.LOL
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[tonyp]

warm Sake, my favorite!

[usadar]

Now back in Tokyo from Retro Palooza.

All the chassis built by Kamo-san for this big event worked well.
The F-1 ran very well but I think it was not necessary to reduce its weight by shaving the center bars.
The most competitive F-1's at the race weighed 110-112g.
The combination of higher voltage & PS motors makes it necessary for such no-downforced cars as F-1's to be heavier than we had expected.
I left the F-1 to Timmy for him to race it at Retro East events.

Both Can-Am ran very well.
I used the chassis with a 3/4 inch motor bracket(D3 Kamo-Speed variation), while the other car with 1 3/8 inch wide bracket was raced by Preston.
Ed Sohl tested my car on Orange with its fastest lap of 3.992!!!

I really enjoyed racing & learned a lot at RP3.

By the way,
Our Tokyo D3 racer, Yokomizo, brought a painted interior by a Japanese super modeler.
Sorry, my photo is not good enough to show his master work.


Kamo-san & I will develop 1 5/8 wide F1 chassis, while I will ask Nob Hanada to design 1 5/8 inch wide F-1 chassis kits.
Stay tuned,

Haruki

[usadar]

The latest Kamo-Speed Can-Am chassis prepared for the coming Summer Western Classic at Buena Park Raceway in mid-July. Kamo-san says it is the lightest he has ever made in this style. Like the IRRA version I raced at Retro Palooza 3, this has a threaded front axle by BRP from Chicagoland Raceway. Very convenient to change front tires.

Kamo-san also has finished the center sections of IRRA wide F

-1 chassis for me to race Summer Western Classic. Chicagoland's 3/4" wide brass guide tongues are braced with Slick 7's spring steel guide tongues to protect against crashes from my poor driving. LOL. The F-1 chassis will be done just before my departure to LA. I am going to set up them at Buena Park Raceway.

Haruki

[Brian]

SSSWWWEEEEEETTT!

We've got a "Speedway" coming out, alittle different than this.

Beautiful, nice work !

[usadar]

Brian,

I am looking forward to seeing your new kit!!

Now I have got 3 slightly different versions of Kamo-Speed Can-Am chassis.


The left one is my CPC version, the lightest, with which a complete car would weigh 90g.

The center one is the standard version Kamo-san is building for our racers in Tokyo, a few grams heavier than my CPC version.

The right one is what I recently raced at Retro Palooza 3, a premier IRRA race; made to run with a PS4002B-B and clear the minimum weight requirement of 100g with some lead weight. Now with a TSRD3(1.6g heavier than PS4002B-B & without lead weight, the complete car with a OS T--22R body weight is 99g.

The standard version in the center has slightly bigger pans in front & around the motor bracket, which you can shave off some meat to make the chassis as light as my CPC version.

I will bring all the three chassis to test at BPR for the coming Summer Western Classic.

Haurki

[usadar]

Finally I have installed this great work of Mokoto Kobayashi of M&K Custom Signs to my 3rd Eye controller frame.


Haruki

[Alchemist]

Greetings Haruki-san!

It has been a while and I hope everyone is well!

That is a "hot" controller! Better wear some heat proof gloves!

Please extend my compliments to Kobayashi-san for an awesome paint job!

Those chassis's look fantastic too!

Ernie

[usadar]

Eanie,

http://slotblog.net/...racing-program/
As announced in the above thread, I will be modifying our retro racing program in Tokyo.

Kobayashi-san's paint job is so nice that I would like to ask you to paint slot car boxes.

Stay tuned,

Haruki

[Cap Henry]

Love the controller paint job!

[Alchemist]

Haruki-san,

"Retro Tokyo" is a fantastic name for your series of racing! Very Cool!
Ernie

[redbackspyder]

Haruki, very cool controller ! Be on the lookout on Hakkaido Island, for someday soon, we are coming to race Retro with you !