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ThisDougsForU
June 11th, 2009, 1:12 AM
Here are the remains of Ron's GTB after the fire in the Sprints main. It was crazy looking! The look on Rob's face was priceless as he marshalled the smoking car, only to have it light up in a huge fire ball! Luckily no one was hurt!


http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i22/thisdougsforu/burnedupesc.jpg
MiniT21
June 11th, 2009, 1:35 AM
that was nuts... I was racing when all of a sudden i seen a huge fireball out of the corner of my eye... crazy stuff
ed gaines
June 11th, 2009, 1:42 AM
It was all that motor,It brought out the orange smoke.
Eugene Ryder
June 11th, 2009, 6:48 AM
I think I have told you about that Orange crap......go ahead and buy another one.......hope no one was hurt.....
overlandovalracer
June 11th, 2009, 10:59 AM
From the charred remains, it looks like some "blue" piece o' crap speedo? I heard the motor was an orange piece o' crap, powered by some 40c piece o' crap.
sps3172
June 12th, 2009, 2:30 PM
From the charred remains, it looks like some "blue" piece o' crap speedo? I heard the motor was an orange piece o' crap, powered by some 40c piece o' crap.

Since we're all taking a guess at the pic...

It looks more like an orange smolding pile with a purple heatsink to me. :)

I'll worry when I see a black and gold (KO) smoldering pile in a picture somewhere :)
overlandovalracer
June 12th, 2009, 7:30 PM
Since we're all taking a guess at the pic...

It looks more like an orange smolding pile with a purple heatsink to me. :)

I'll worry when I see a black and gold (KO) smoldering pile in a picture somewhere :)

Give it a go!!! I thought I read somewhere the KOs can rock the 2.5 motors & 40c packs, right?! ;)
smac
June 13th, 2009, 5:41 PM
It was a Novak that he had been running a 6.5 with all night. The problem occured when he tried a 3.5 in the main!!

In the 2+ years that SmacTrac has been running, Novaks have smelled the building up at least 10 times more than any other speedo!!
sps3172
June 14th, 2009, 8:51 AM
Give it a go!!! I thought I read somewhere the KOs can rock the 2.5 motors & 40c packs, right?! ;)

I'm not sure about a 2.5, but I've been runing the KO VFS-1 BMC with a 40C SMC lipo all season. My car still has the same 4.5 motor in it from when it was built....I've never even unsoldered the wires!! That being said, the motor (timing and gearing) has always been the limiting factor (temp limits)....never the speedo. I don't think they set a motor limit for this speedo when you use the fan and heatsink.
sps3172
June 14th, 2009, 8:55 AM
It was a Novak that he had been running a 6.5 with all night. The problem occured when he tried a 3.5 in the main!!

In the 2+ years that SmacTrac has been running, Novaks have smelled the building up at least 10 times more than any other speedo!!

In all fairness, I'd bet that the Novak speedos have been used 10 times more than any other speedo so you would expect to see more failures, right?
smac
June 14th, 2009, 12:19 PM
In all fairness, I'd bet that the Novak speedos have been used 10 times more than any other speedo so you would expect to see more failures, right?

I would have to say that it is about 50/50 now on the off road between Novak and LRP.. As the Novaks melted down, they were replaced with LRP's. That is what I did when my almost new Novak smoked in the first season. I have had great luck with their motors and it looks like their new ones are very good.