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Friday Jun 03, 2022
Friday Jun 03, 2022
TSR Speed Shop RC podcast Ep: 159
“Arizona or Bust”
Hosts: Tim Smith and ???
Show introduction and welcome.
Tim Notes:
House buying and house selling, it’s a bag of fun.
Got to sell two to get one
You can’t have that pool house said the HOA
Where or where is our little house at?
Let’s wait a week and see if we can save some money
Hey, want to buy everything? Maybe the jeep too?
22 days and that’s a wrap
Who am I going to race with, I lost my Christies and now what? Someone better jump in to help me.
MACLAN: New software, How the heck do we use this one Tim?
Boost in the stages, catch me outside how about dat??
News items
RC Tip Of the Week (brought to you by Colin)
Main Topic:
Matt and Colin take a trip to OKC for the SuperChips
ET’s and MPH
Featured Item of the week
Maclan 3021 Software package: Cost FREE
Thank you to MaxAmps, MKS Servo, Maclan racing, Graupner USA, RC Speed Secrets, FiveStar, RC Racer, CowRC, All you awesome fans, We love you all!
Thursday Mar 03, 2022
Thursday Mar 03, 2022
TSR Speed Shop RC podcast Ep:158
“Never as Easy as it Seems w/ Jay Joseph”
Hosts: Tim Smith and Colin Branch
Show introduction and welcome.
Tim Notes:
Irwindale race 1 of the 4 race NPRC championship event, how did it go for Timmy and Colin?
This race was STACKED with fast drivers!
Showed up with no stress and then, STRESS happened.
Shuddering disaster and now the race is a mess…
When do we give up and go back up car?
Crash Time: How can that happen twice a year later? Welcome to the struggle bus we seat as many as would like to join, there is always an open seat for Tim it seems……
Flat tire blues…. We got to figure this one out.
Pull yourself up kid the RC world still needs something from you. Sitting in the trailer feeling crushed yet again…. Then God sent me the way out and I took it.
Tim gets to announce the race, Oh boy
Let’s talk about this race and the competition, surface, instant green, right lane left lane
And with all that the fastest still made it to the finals and what a finals it was.
The winners! Jay Joseph and Jordan Yancy
Race one of the NPRC championship, let’s talk about who is going to win this thing now that is happening.
So, the announcing gig…. Let’s talk about that a little bit. Interview with Dibs and Jay and how I can do better next time!
Kyle Christy runs a great race and if you can’t do what he did stop stealing our money.
Timing systems and instant green let’s talk kids.
News items
Las Vegas 702 NPRC April 2-3 Webb RC live stream racing starts at 1pm, Sunday a second cash day.
Race two of the Socal/Az points series this weekend in Arizona and this kid will not be racing again….. New house time.
RC Tip Of the Week (brought to you by Colin)
Main Topic:
Jay Joseph and his big win:
Talk about how you got to this level in your race program.
What are important things to you in your race program everyone can learn from to make them better?
Tell us about your day, round by round
How overwhelmed were you, I feel like if I would have asked the right questions I might have got a tear from the scariest looking dude in No Prep.
Ok you are now a champion, what’s Next?
Take a minute and thank all the people that helped you reach this accomplishment in RC
Tires, Prep process, Battery, Motor, ESC, Chassis, Body
Featured Item of the week
The NEW Reaction time tire prep named “Smoked 1.7” 22.00 for a 4oz bottle with cotton dabber, released march 7th Get it while you can trust me and colin on this one.
Thank you to MaxAmps, MKS Servo, Maclan racing, Graupner USA, CowRC, All you awesome fans, We love you all!
Thursday Feb 24, 2022
Thursday Feb 24, 2022
TSR Speed Shop RC podcast Ep 157
“Who is the new Kid?”
Hosts: Tim Smith and Colin Branch
Show introduction and welcome.
I look good today.
Tim Notes:
Birthday Tim!
Who is that beardless kid?
Covid journey and Crypto fun
¼ scale build, lets start somewhere maybe a Snowboard chassis
Building your first drag car don’t go with a one man show.
I’ll do today what most won’t so I can do tomorrow what most can’t.
RC is what you make of it don’t blame everyone for your experience.
Testing day another good one. Starter tune still the golden way to find speed.
Running two GNSS units, yes you can but WHY?
4 pole fun, now I get it…..
Battery testing and new packs on the horizon
News items
Kyle Christy and the Irwindale NPRC series race stop one!
NPRC series stop one
Allie Marsden: web site, series and how they plan to report each race on the show.
RC Tip Of the Week (brought to you by Colin)
Main Topic:
Listener questions
Featured Item of the week
The NEW TSR No Prep drag pack. 1050 mah stacked 8 tall to make 8600 mah of pure power. The lowest voltage
Thank you to MaxAmps, MKS Servo, Maclan racing, Graupner USA, CowRC, All you awesome fans, We love you all!
Wednesday Jan 26, 2022
Wednesday Jan 26, 2022
TSR podcast Episode 156
“TSR DRK”
Hosts: Tim Smith and Colin Branch
Show introduction and welcome.
Tim Notes:
19.01 (7 stage) software is OUT for everyone.
Car crashes and new cars How has your 2022 been?
Cricuter and Colins new body. And my new painting experience.
BC race cars rear wings and splitters
New Battery packs to test.
Listener questions.
News items
Southwest tour race one break down. (Mark/Ray)
RC Tip Of the Week (brought to you by Colin)
Main Topic:
Launch of the TSR DRK
Feature list: Big cap, Big wire, 7 stage, 70°
“Throttle Settings”
Punch
Dead band
“Launch Powe Control”
Stages and delays
“Advanced timing settings”
Turbo start position
Top speed Turbo
Up Slew rate
Turbo delay
The starter tune, the greatest tune ever?
Featured Item of the week
RC Speed Secrets wheelie bar wheels.
2 sizes available 24.95
5x22x9mm- (.87 inches Tall)
6x30x10mm- (1.2 inches Tall)
(inner x outer x Thickness) mm
Made from super hard aerospace polymer, they are like Mini Skate Board Wheels with our oversized best in class Hybrid Ceramic Bearings inside.
We replaced the rim with a large heavy duty hybrid ceramic bearing for maximum spin and bearing durability. Those tiny wheelie bar wheel bearings commonly used just don't hold up to the rpm and 60+ mph crashes in no prep.
Eliminate the issues with foam wheels cracking and chipping and stop chasing rubber bands around the track
Thank you to MaxAmps, MKS Servo, Maclan racing, Graupner USA, CowRC, All you awesome fans, We love you all!
Thursday Jan 06, 2022
Thursday Jan 06, 2022
TSR podcast Episode 155
“New Year Same Fun”
Hosts: Tim Smith and Colin Branch
Goodbye Toby
Time for a break, Lets have a long donut and talk about our hobby’s health. Oh wait its only on FB all other social medias are still fun! Join me on tiktok-Instagram-twitter-YouTube
When did having confidence turn to ego? What happened to all the men in the world? Winners call it confidence losers call it cocky…
1 million view! Wow Wait 2 million!!!!
NPRC rules are complete!
New guy asks what chassis to buy, Great question here are some things to think about first.
New product launch, didn’t see much of this yet
Videos I want to do.
Video Promo ideas
Tires:
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Air tire build video
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Balancing
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Final prep before use.
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Run prep and burn out
Listener questions
Main Topic:
Tuning: How and why
Ray Presnall
Featured Item of the week
The New Maclan DRK TSR edition!
Thank you to MaxAmps, MKS Servo, Maclan racing, Graupner USA, CowRC, All you awesome fans, We love you all!
Friday Dec 17, 2021
Friday Dec 17, 2021
TSR podcast Episode
154
“Listener Celebration show”
Hosts: Tim Smith, Colin Branch
Show introduction and welcome.
Tim Notes:
The annual Christy holiday party, I got a lot to learn about partying with the Christy’s.
Don’t drag your teeth
Goat licker Jello shots
I got Lifestyle creep (at least that is what the kids tell me…)
MaClan team announced
Colin gets the same old gig again. Did you get a raise?
3.0 motor and super cap pack. Let’s talk about ESC limits
My 2022 sponsor list: The Final Year!!
MaxAmps: 16 years
Maclan: year 2
MKS: 12 years
Voodoo: year 1
Reaction Time: Friend deal
BC wings: Year 1
Five Star chassis: year 2
CowRC: year 10
RC Speed Secrets year 1
RC deals, do you really know what your worth is? And do you really know what others are getting? Let’s talk reality kids: No one is guaranteed a deal
No prep races can be made a little better, how about when the top 16 get there we do it live and have the chip draw and reveal, it works on TV and is pretty exciting.
News items
SoCal Toys for Tots Kenny B
Joey Davis (W: 3250) vs Eli Cerdon
Raised over 10K and had like 500 toys
13.5: Stefany vs Johnathan Shultz,(W: 630)
** Timing systems and their value in no prep.
RC Tip Of the Week (brought to you by Colin)
Main Topic:
Listener questions and Listener guests Ray Presnall
Featured Item of the week
MaxAmps hoodie: 24.99 keep you warm all winter long.
Christmas song singalong
Bashing through the snow, In a MaxAmps power ride
O'er the streets we go, Team Maclan by my side
Voodoos barking loud, Instant green is the light
What fun it is to hang and race with my RC friends tonight
OH!
RC cars, RC cars
You better get out of the way.
These things will do 80 mph
And hit you in the leg HEY!
RC cars, RC cars
You better get out of the way.
These things will do 80 mph
And hit you in the leg! Merry Christmas~!
Thank you to MaxAmps, MKS Servo, Maclan racing, CowRC, All you awesome fans, We love you all!
Wednesday Nov 24, 2021
Wednesday Nov 24, 2021
TSR podcast Episode
“Hey Tim AKA Team weekend”
Hosts: Tim Smith and Colin Branch
Show introduction and welcome.
Tim Notes:
Maclan team weekend.
News items
RC Tip Of the Week (brought to you by Colin)
Main Topic:
Saturday: The race.
Start with a solid tune. On a tricky surface.
Drop the GNSS and enjoy the thrill of guessing.
Gold car doing its thing.
Going rounds with a fast car.
Why does it always look fast when you watch other peoples cars? This is whats good about no prep without timing trees kids!
Made it to the final four and was hungry to I ate a sandwich at the line…. AKA Mark and Tim get put out.
Mark and Tim Grudge race, I was ready then mark did a test pass before we raced… lol
Kelly winner, Chuck second.
So many Fast cars it was amazing.
Thank you to everyone that came out and supported the race and the charity race.
Summary: quicker and faster than I have ever gone on that road.
Lots of chassis and suspension changes, but Reaction time was the key and here is how I do it.
Sundays are made for testing. And lots of folks showed up including Randy Caster of 1Up
Good results and this car is amazing (Fivestar Breakout)
Mexican food and elevator rides for the win!
Thank you to Craig, OKO, Jeremy, Carl, Colin, Dave, James (new friend) and of course the Christy family, words cannot express how much was all appreciate what you do for us.
Featured Item of the week
Cow RC hide Wipes, Order them at once!
Thank you to MaxAmps, MKS Servo, Maclan racing, Graupner USA, CowRC, All you awesome fans, We love you all!
Wednesday Nov 17, 2021
Wednesday Nov 17, 2021
TSR podcast Episode
“Two Dudes in an RC world”
Hosts: Tim Smith and Colin Branch
Show introduction and welcome.
Tim Notes:
New air wheels from Fivestar
Frank Greer tire stuff, what in the holy hell is this magic in a bottle?
Beef tubes tires break in bit. Yup you need one.
Az is creeping closer
NPRC grows a little, see how that works.
New springs and I am in love
News items
11/20 fall nationals, and a next day Maclan test day.
RC Tip Of the Week (brought to you by Colin)
Main Topic:
In my experience start with one of the preloaded tunes. Believe it or not Colin Branch and I made hundreds of hits trying to find a solid STARTING point to build from.
I am also a fan for first time hits to remove all turbo to keep things less complicated.
After that you have a few ways to go. You can begin increasing the first stage until you are spinning too hard on the hit or wheeling excessively.
Next I would begin shortening my stage delays in small amounts watching the data log and video for wheel spin.
Once I have tightened up my stages and got my first stage as high as feels solid for the car on the launch I will add the turbo.
For turbo I start with it at 100 percent throttle position and .1-.2 delay giving my battery pack a tiny bit more time to recover voltage before I start pouring in turbo timing. I use all 60 degrees and control it’s input from the slew. Start out with a very low slew like 2-4 and increase it every run as the data and mph allow. From there you can begin bringing the turbo in sooner, maybe go from starting the turbo at 100 to starting it at 90
Data from the logger, a GNSS and video are the tools for all these adjustments and if I was to give you a general rule for tuning it would be
1. Make small single adjustments
2. Make 60 foot hits the majority of your runs when testing.
3. Make 2-3 hits on an adjustment before determining if it helped or not.
4. When making adjustments and things like et or mph are increasing like you want the second they don’t you have hit the wall it’s best to back it off a tiny bit and you’ll have a solid car.
Featured Item of the week
MKS HBL575SL brushless motor, 233 oz stall torque .0008ms DB 149.99
Thank you to MaxAmps, MKS Servo, Maclan racing, Graupner USA, CowRC, All you awesome fans, We love you all!
Thursday Nov 04, 2021
Thursday Nov 04, 2021
TSR podcast Episode 151
“Mark Vyne #2”
Hosts: Tim Smith and Colin Branch
Show introduction and welcome.
Tim Notes:
Give us the story Tim… it was an exciting two days, but whats new…
You should always protect your character
DRC vs VooDoo vs Reactions, Wide wheels, standard wheels and really wide wheels.
Mounting voodoo’s on Traxxas wide wheels…. I got a plan for that.
Testing: folding tires, air is a pain, can needs more work now to handle the new power. shock angle, driveline angle, tune adjustments.
Stopped off at the prep track…. Oops… lol
Az trip
News items
RC Tip Of the Week (brought to you by Colin)
Main Topic:
MARK VYNE and his Apollo car
Featured Item of the week
MaxAmps 7250 mah brick
Thank you to MaxAmps, Maclan racing, MKS Servo, CowRC, All you awesome fans, We love you all!
Friday Oct 29, 2021
Friday Oct 29, 2021
TSR podcast Episode 150
“Dustin Malicoat”
Hosts: Tim Smith and Colin Branch
Show introduction and welcome.
Tim Notes:
Back from Maui, Pineapple, ziplines and Luaus filled the air
Covid update: Christy family
Testing Testing, is this thing on? The long road to end up back where we started.
Bitty design body results
DRC vs VooDoo vs Reactions, Wide wheels, standard wheels and really wide wheels.
Mounting voodoo’s on Traxxas wide wheels…. I got a plan for that.
New MaxAmps pack….. Battery posting fun, if the test is not recent its pointless.
News items
Ryan Cav wins 1000 bucks and the entire no prep world broke out in laughter…
Dawn of the drags winner Taylor Spencer
SDRA (prep track) outlaw winner William Smashey
Backyard Boogie 10/30 (Poway)
Fall nationals 11/20
RC Tip Of the Week (brought to you by Colin)
Main Topic:
Apollo car
Listener questions
Featured Item of the week
Curved Lexan scissors, buy a set and thank me later
Thank you to MaxAmps, MKS Servo, Maclan racing, Graupner USA, CowRC, All you awesome fans, We love you all!