Xmods anyone?
 

Hopefully at the end of this month a few of us are going to run our xmods in a little 1/8th mile battle anyone interested in joining? Â*Its $5 per car to enter winner take all pot :) few rules apply:
1. basically unmodified stock or aftermarket body kit
2. stock Battery setup any 4 AAA batterys allowed
3. Any available Stage 1 or 2 motor through radio shack
4. Stock Chassis

im bored this winter with the gtp so had to pick up on another hobby in the meantime :twisted: anyone else got one and would like to have some fun?

stock body? stock battery setup up? those are both big mods :lol: thats no fun

sorry stock body kit...meaning you can swap any applicible kit onto your car...like mine has parts of the aftermarket kit on it but unmodified meaning no parts can be cut off to lighten it like i was going to cut off the tailpipes but leave the rest alone(cant do that) were also thinking about changing that battery rule for next month...just an expensive upgrade for what would amount for a $15-$20 pot this month :) if we could get 4-5 more peeps interested and make it a decent sized pot thats a different story but this month thats the way were gonna set it up.

i still gotta get one. Tranny rebuild comes first :cry:

tranny shmany I need to swap my motor to my truck, tim needs to swap his motor to his car, justin needs to get his car on the road...we all have issues but still have found the few dollars to spend on an xmod...better hope your birthday is this month so you can get one :) the mods for them is nearly as endless as a real car with carbon fiber abound as well as tons of power mods and awd and such, not to mention a wide array of tires from plastic to billet and tires gallor :)

side note. teh nody rule should be read as "stock" body. you are allowed to do whatever you want under the body. but from the outside the body will have to look stock or like it jsut had body kit parts swapped onto it. :D
the battey/chassis/and motor things are just to keep costs under control for this first race. we will prolly eliminate one or more of the rules for next time. i know the battery/electronics rules will fall first since at least justin adn i are both dying to put some real power into our cars.


later
tim

the race will be a scale 1/8th mile on my painted concrete basement floor. surface has good traction, but a few bumps. so driving may come into play :twisted:

later
tim

If anyone is interested in these cars, check out http://p221.ezboard.com/bxmodrc

It's a cool forum run by the owner of www.atomicmods.com a great site for aftermarket parts.

I can't wait to start really tearing into this thing with power. Tim is the weight nazi, but Bill's body is lighter to start with, and I have a few tricks up my sleeve :wink:

- Justin


::edit:: - when we say stock batteries, that means basically any 4 AAA alkaline or Ni-Mhi mounted in the stock location....

I don't want one because I've already got too much on my plate as it is.... BUT.... I'll help somebody win if they give me 25% of the pot. Remember, I don't collect until I win.... any takers? You'll have a young espiring Smokey Yunik on your hands if you do. I've already got some ideas that will DEFINATLY help and bet nobody has thought of. Not even the forums have anything about my ideas.
Just to make sure I'm on the same plane, this is strickly drag racing right?

yup, we will be rocking a scale 1/8th mile. outside possibility of going to teh scale 1/4, but i sort of doubt it considering how small my basement is.
i am down to hear some of your knowledge jon. hit me up on AIM and we will compare notes to see what can be done.

later
tim

Can NJFBOA get a deal with Radio-Shack, and we can get a group purchase possible? :lol:

you can find xmods starter kits fairly cheap and with a good set of batteries and a good stage 2 motor you should be competitive in this first race. Personally ive already put about $150 into it so i better damn well be competetive :twisted:

See Karen, look what you done did. :)

Anyone interested in getting a car check my other topic about the ebay auction that ends this afternoon.

I have enough distractions from me working on my real car, I dont need anymore!

:nod: Why I'm only offering my tuning services, lol.

check the thread hardcore holly put up :lol: i think the guy is selling 8...if we get 8 to put up $20 we should be damn close to winning all of them...i dont think $20 is too much for a competetive car :)

I've got a rather LARGE motor, 1/10th scale electronics ESC, etc.... maybe it'll fit, lol.
I think the best upgrade would be a HUGE motor and electronics. Weight reduction is nice but might hurt you if you've got too much horsepower. Unless you microwave your tires the weight reduction might end up leaving you spinning.
I'd like one to put in a mini-jet engine in :twisted: .

batteries seem to be one of thee best mods...alk. batts suck...lithium AAA's are better...tim was telling me theres a double a conversion that works well and then theres a rechargable lith-ion batterys which are light and powerful. I would like to see a stage 1 turd motor with the lith ion's vs a lithium AAA stage 2 setup...i think the stage 2 motor would loose to be honest.

Hahaha John you're sick! I was thinking I'd pirate an engine off my RC plane and see how it ran!

supposidly theres a few combinations that have speed dynoed at 50mph...1/28th scale models at 50mph i wonder what that would equate to 1:1

50 x 28 = 1400....too hard for the ex-banker to figure out? :P

- Justin

is that even possible? Â*for comparison the speed of sound is over 3000mph so one way or the other its pretty fast :)

I dunno $150 is like one weeks paycheck, I dont think I can sacrafice that much. I wanted to buy my pro-5.0 today.

check out the other thread...brand new its $50 for a car fwiw trying to make it faster is another thing in itself :)