My name is Ronny, and I'm from Norway. This is my first post here.
I race 1/8 buggy for Mugen Seiki, RB Mods, Racing +, Neo-buggy etc.
I just had my Half8 with me to the 1/8 OR Euro warm-up in France, where I gave the car a real run for it's money on the 2005 Euro's track.
The car is equiped with Mamba esc, AC Mini motor, Orion mached 8 cell packs, oil-shocks & tuning springs, last but not least 3Racing alum.towers, motor-mount, carbon top-plate, titanium turnbuckles & tourq-rods..
Anyway, one of my sponsors timed my car while testing it at break-time, and at a nearly 350 meters track, my laptime was 4 seconds of his laptime with the 1/8 gas-buggy :eek:
My H8 cleared the whole 1/8 buggy track, jumping doubles, tabletops etc meant for his bigger cusine.. Needless to say, people was stocked by it's performance indeed. The speed of my H8 is approxamatly 53.km with stock 14.T pinion. The car is so dialed, that all of the other drivers testing it said, hey, what the, this feels just like my 1/8 :D
This car rocks after a little twiking & fiddeling, and the only other really needed options for my car now would be alum.steering knuckles, roll-bars and BALL-diffs if someone would make them. I have already introduced the idea for 3Racing ;)
The reason I want ball-diff versus fluid-diffs is simple. MUCH less rotating weight with ball-diffs. Ball-diffs can as you all know be adjusted to give a tighter/looser diff,. this is equal to go from f.example 3 to 5K in the diff with only a quarter of twist or so :D
At the moment with the stock diffs, the center diff is making the front wheels spinning way too much, reducing forward traction enormously.
Btw, I have been browsing this site for a few weeks, and have to say I like the manor here. Much like on neo-buggy where I have my own tread called "Ronny's corner" under the Team section. We talk 1/8 OR there of course, but the rules apply for the H8 when it comes to setup's. My car is set up like my 1/8 Mugen Prospec, exept for the roll-bars which I haven't gotten yet..
Anyways, just thought I'd say HI as I'm probably gonna hang around on this great site now that I'm also able to play a little, not only die-hard racing :)
Have a nice weekend!
Ronny Arnesen
Team Mugen Seiki
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