New Car - JK Cheetah 7 - Nascar

I decided for my next car that I would try my hand at racing a nascar style car. I have not had a chance to really test drive this car yet, but wanted to place a picture of the car up on the blog. I will give you an update soon on how the car runs, and any modifications that I may need to make.


I know one of the first things I will do is change the decals, and maybe switch to a different set of tires. I'm not sure about the rear-end gear if I need to swap it out for an upgrade or not, I won;t really know until I have a chance to run the car over several practices. I'll keep you posted on the progress of this car soon, and if I will be running in the points racing for this class.

Kids Racing - Downforce Hobbies

Took my daughter Laura down to Downforce Hobbies for some practice with her new car, and also to run the kids racing they have each week. The car that I purchased for Laura is a JK Cheetah 7 w/Falcon Motor with a AX-Audi R8 body. Here is a picture of her car.

She got in about and hour or so practice on the track and her times and driving improved a lot since the last time she raced. She was getting more comfortable driving as time went on. After the practice runs, we went over car maintenance, and she helped me clean and prepare the car for the kids race that was scheduled for later that day.

When she entered the kids race, their was three other kids entered with her, one of which was Matthew, Dean's son. You can follow them at Wolfpack Racing blog. It was a very close race, and Laura ended up finishing in 3rd place. She was very excited to get the third place plaque, and I was very proud of her in the way she handled herself during the race. With more practice and a few more events she will be definitely be making a run for some first place finishes.

Drag Racing Practice - Downforce Hobbies

Went down to Downforce Hobbies today to get in some more testing and practice time for the Drag Car. The car was again consistent in its times, with none of the runs being that far apart from each other in times.

I plan on entering the point racing which starts on Saturday, September 25th, 2010. With the car running this consistent, I think I will be able to do pretty well against the compition.

Here are the time that I ran today.

New Drag Car Assembled

To start out my slot-racing career, I decided to first start out with the Drag Cars. I purchased a Parma Edge with the 16D Motor pre-assembled, ready to race (Or so I thought, see below). The body I picked up for it was a Pro-Stock look, although I'm not 100% sure, it looks to be a Ford style maybe following and Escort look.

I met my friend Dean down at Downforce Hobbies in Mesa, and he was a great help in getting the car setup and body attached. You can follow dean and his racing family at: Wolfpack Racing. Before we could attach the body, we had to swap out the rear-end for a smaller axle for it was originally setup for a different body style. Lucky for me, Dean had an extra rear axle handy that he let me use. We got it switched out pretty quick, thanks to Dean. After a few modification to the chassis and cutting/trimming the body down to fit, we had the car race ready in no time. I learned alot with Dean's help and hope to be able to put that to the test with my next car which will be one of the Flexi cars.


After some great pointers from Dean, I was ready to take some practice runs. The car turned out be great I ran 6 times in each lane to get a good feel for how the car was going to run. The car turned out to be more consistent then I thought at first and ran the following times:

I'm going to try to get in some more practice runs between now and Saturday. The plan is to enter the bracket racing Saturday night which will be Draft Wheels Racing debut to the slot car racing world.