Tsr Speed Shop Rc Podcast

TSR podcast Episode “The Break Out Break Down” Hosts: Tim Smith and Matt Howsen   Show introduction and welcome. Big Chief winning a cash day Tim Notes: The build Car review Testing Broken stuff Wheelie bar weight box Summer Mayhem “Matchup madness” June 26th drag race 64 car shoot out, full News items ROAR Nationals fuel tank issues.... repeat... Horizon buys AKA tires Scotty Ernsts Straight line showdown Entry 125, Double elimination, 2 classes, Aug 27-29 Great lakes dragaway union grove Wi Payouts top 16 outlaw payouts top 8 in super sport payouts top 4 in RTR class RC Word Of the Week (brought to you by RC Driver) Servo Horn: Attaches to the servo and is the link between the servo and the steering linkage.   Servo Saver: Usually a servo horn that uses a spring to absorb sudden shock or impact coming from the servo linkage. This helps prevent breakage of the servo.     Main Topic: Facebook Questions Corey Lively What are your thoughts on a 1.7 pass being put do

TSR podcast Episode “2021 SuperChip” Hosts: Tim Smith and Matt Howsen Guest Colin Branch   Show introduction and welcome.   Tim Notes: Kyles birthday News items   RC Word Of the Week (brought to you by RC Driver) Camber: The angle, from vertical, of the wheels. Negative camber is when the top of the tire is closer to the center of the vehicle than the bottom of the tire. Negative camber is commonly used to add stability in bumps. Positive camber is when the bottom of the tire is closer to the center of the vehicle than the top of the tire. Positive camber is not commonly used.   Main Topic:   Are you taking the truck? Oh boy The flight, I love that they still have barf bags not as many people cough anymore in public lol Vegas airport weed vending machines and 69 dollar lunches stand up in my aisle karma buddy Rental truck Tornado watch The hotel, oh boy, leaking toilets and feeling like I was going to fall though oh and a few cops Food at the Shilo, Glitter moles, snow

TSR podcast Episode 138 “Tulsa Here We Come, W/ Frank Ulbrik” Hosts: Tim Smith and Matt Howsen Guest: Frank Ulbrik   Show introduction and welcome. Tim Notes: Chip shortage is still an issue for all you Maclan fans. Some info on the chip shortage as its called. How did we get here? Rona scare for auto makers, Rona plaint shut downs, Silica for glass vaccine vials. Tim got a new Truck! Let me tell you about it. Leather, moonroof, power steps, no crashing programs and on and on. Did a little interview with the Five Star chassis guys and my buddy Todd Solterio and they/Todd had a surprise for me. Tulsa is coming, what am I doing this time? The biggest RC drag race ever held and its going to be epic. 500 plus entries Tulsa race prep, What do you do when you travel for a race? What cars are you taking because you are signed up for two cars? Flying with Lipos, 100 watt hours is the key RMA fun! You all do know we can figure out how you killed your esc right? Dale Epp retires after 30 years of m

TSR podcast Episode 137# “Sub 2’s w/ Todd Soltero” Hosts: Tim Smith and Matt Howsen   Show introduction and welcome.     Tim Notes: NEW SOFTWARE UPDATE Broke the car more then I thought, Run down the list. How do I set up my chassis (Scales and things) Didn’t go to the list race, guess I needed a brake Truck buying, why do I now love the dodge? Proline bug body The JConcepts firebird promod body, the wings out but not he body.. Chief we have a body for you now. Who knocks on a work restroom door? What happened to the Jeff guy that made everyone made all the time and fought with JQ then joined his team then got mad at him more? Might be building a new car….. I cant help it I love them all so much Bug guts promo   News items ((brought to you by LiveRC) Flash back to the dead pool car chase, Jay Halsey was the man behind the wheel of what is still one of the most iconic chase scenes in movie history. 'The Dead Pool' was a 1988 crime film starring Clint Eastwood. A modified RC10 with lowe

TSR podcast Episode “One way or Another” Hosts: Tim Smith and Matt Howsen Show introduction and welcome. Tim Notes: We are now on spotify We are on a break neck pace this year. The more we slow down the more we do. Corey Lively joins the MA 70 mph club Johnny and the dead rat Smells like chicken and socks… Shock staft lengths in place of spacers News items Live Time drag racing system Rocket car jumps The new infinity curved scissors Ran out of talent podcast, why cant we get any love? The hobbplex show…. New R1 wurks caps, made for drag racing? New X-ray servo arm… RC Word Of the Week (brought to you by Competition X) Countersunk: A (flathead) screw with a tapered head; a hole with an angle that accepts a flathead crew. (countersunk chassis). Main Topic: Concrete testing day Tires and prep and brand testing (VooDoo/JC) Lots of grip and bouncy Head on into a curb is how I like it. The list of broken stuff 13.5 is big out here, I wonder if it is everywhere else? Hit man into a

TSR podcast Episode “RC and You will get us through” Hosts: Tim Smith and Matt Howsen   Show introduction and welcome. Space Junk Wang Chung   Tim Notes:   I want to buy a new truck, so many issues, from the chip shortage to paying 50-60K for   San Diego cash race. Won first round but at a cost taking out my buddy Kyle Riley won all the money, not a shock. Car stuff, it wanted to go left… I need to learn more about these cars apparently.   Trip to Az to race, the drive was nice other then being 3 hours late and rushing to even make a hit…   Lost first round to Peter a local driver, it was a close one and not sure what else I could have done other then turn it up more.   Got to run Ryan Mayfield and won lol well I am thinking only one of us knew we were racing… Spencer was there too, what the heck has happened in drag racing when I am at a Saturday evening race that world champs show up to.. We are really having fun now. Todd made the finals but a bumped throttle gave him the loss.  

TSR podcast Episode 134# “More KOTS w/ Todd Soltero” Hosts: Tim Smith and Matt Howsen   Show introduction and welcome. Tim Notes: The tent post came back around! OKC interview (best questions ever) KOTS ET and MPH break down and lookie who made the top 25 of reaction times. Its not supposed to be easy… I saw complaining and all I thought was these guys are track racers so they don’t get it. It’s supposed to be HARD. The right guys seemed to have been in the finals. VooDoo tire report coming soon. Stuffed them with crawler innovations foam Street Outlaw TV show and the new rules/halfway point of the show New parts for the undercover car (rear hubs, brass inserts) TSR Tunes from Vegas have been submitted. My charger died….. what to do? Superchip race, over 300 entries (2 cars per dude) another 20K race. Big chief has been invited. News items Some racing seems to be starting back up! Check your local tracks for the fun to start back up. RC Word Of the Week (brought to you by Competition-X)

TSR podcast Episode “KING of the Streets 2021” Hosts: Tim Smith and Matt Howsen Guest: Jake Lieder   Show introduction and welcome.     Tim Notes: The Vegas race. The trip into town Thursday night hang out relax and had a lovely steak and shake no room service no steak Friday MaxAmps day! Stickers on the Lambo, Drifter madness and go karts from hell.   Test hits with the team (wind and fun) I get to meet flat Tim for the first time. Team dinner, not the same with Covid (John, David, Todd, Ablie, Colin, Craig, Jerry, Ian in bed early but its not home so I was up early. Or so I thought it was actually an hour off... Saturday race day: Where do I start? No parking, walked about 5 miles to get in because I dont wait. What are we running, no test space or time. Look at that Shut down! Test hit, drove down the slope.... First round hit Spinning was winning when you have the bye run DQ's all around! Voltage and burn outs Second round we got some decisions to make, What car. Some times you

TSR podcast Episode “The waiting is the Hardest Part” Hosts: Tim Smith and Matt Howsen   Show introduction and welcome. Bonkers For Honkers SHOW QUESTIONS Tim Notes: The undercover car updates The VP car Colins back and we are doing a final test New Software is OUT News items Vegas is a go, now what? RC Word Of the Week (brought to you by RC Driver) CVD: Similar to a dogbone, the CVD uses a ball-type setup that connects the bone to the axle.   Main Topic:   listener questions   Featured Item of the week   Helpful people they are free and offer more then money can buy. Be one today and make the world a little better.     Thank you to MaxAmps, Maclan racing, MKS Servo, Graupner USA, CowRC, All you awesome fans, We love you all!

TSR podcast Episode “The Count Down Starts NOW” Hosts: Tim Smith and Matt Howsen   Show introduction and welcome.     Tim Notes:   Vette wings were a thing and then they weren’t and it all lasted about 3 hours   The undercover car updates Shocks, bent shaft Trans rebuild   The VP car Trans rebuild, top shaft, gear diff, outdrives Shock rebuild Bent driveshaft   Colins back in town and I know because they are calling for rain…   News items Vegas is a go, now what?   RC Word Of the Week (brought to you by RC Driver) Bumpsteer: The changing of steering angles while the suspension is moved throughout its range of travel. Generally, not a desired action.   Main Topic:   Tire Talk (rear) with Tim! Starting off the categorization we have two “BELTED and NON-BELTED” all tires fall into one of the two categorize. A belted tire Non-belted Tire bands,   Tire size Tire compound. Foam inserts   I personally run Belted without foam tires exclusively in my c

TSR podcast Episode 130 “Team Testing, 1,2,3 repeat” Hosts: Tim Smith and Matt Howsen   Show introduction and welcome.     Tim Notes:   Tim got a ¼ scale car, well kind of anyways.   Maclan team testing weekend. Colin, Dave, Craig, Nathen, John, Kyle, Bring the rain…. Eating in a parting lot until the sky’s opened up, Hey, look at this dude with a little hand! How many dudes can you get into one hotel room? Time for hallway hits with our matching watches… Sunday came without rain and so the testing was jumping off. Build a team, build some memories. The undercover car, what can I say it’s amazing. Let us do some videos.   Covid and the Vegas race   Big Chiefs weekly updates     News items   R1 bailing on drag racing, how much of this is our fault?   RC Word Of the Week (brought to you by Competition X) Cold Solder Joint: A solder joint with poor electrical integrity. It is not mechanically, or electrically solid, and has a rough or grainy look. Cold joints can cause radio

TSR podcast Episode “Big Chief Big Show” Hosts: Tim Smith and Matt Howsen   Show introduction and welcome. Bruce Wayne Lively, brother Mason James getting what one needs for a poop story, inof and a good laugh   BIG SHOW WITH BIG CHIEF!! Willie Trent shout out for putting it all together.   Tim Notes:   The big Maclan announcement came and it was a fun weekend. So much excitement and welcoming I was really overwhelmed but it all.   MaxAmps, buy direct and Win!   Undercover drag wings announcement   Daniel Judd show?   Drag race life, its all about bodies and tunes and tires and its none stop, and I LOVE it.     Featured Item of the week   Maclan DRK (Drag Race King) esc 229.00 Pick one up at Your Battery Buddy. com your first stop when looking for drag parts.   Thank you to MaxAmps, MKS Servo, Maclan racing, Graupner USA, CowRC, All you awesome fans, We love you all!

TSR podcast Episode “New Year New Everything” Hosts: Tim Smith and Matt Howsen   Show introduction and welcome.     Tim Notes:   Maclan announcement Software development, TSR esc coming   Poop Phone is finally retired, for the new iPhone 12 pro MAX, Oh what did I do now…..   Wait, want a new poop story?   VP car and how close are we to a Vegas winning car?     News items   Proline and the mass exodus, what is going on?   Well remember when Horizon bought out Hobbico? Proline is part of that deal and if you were paying attention when they announced it you would know that some folks have already had a run with Horizon and don’t seem to feel the brand has anything for them anymore.   Could we be seeing the final days of real money contracts for RC drivers? You better offer more than just your ability to wheel if you plan to make a living off this industry. Things are changing and even though the players are young they are believing that the old requirements to get a check in RC are the

TSR podcast Episode 127 “Rainbows and Sunshine all day long” Hosts: Tim Smith and Matt Howsen   Show introduction and welcome.   Sponsor time is coming, have you been a good supporter?   Tekin, what’s going on because we are hearing all kinds of crazy things Tim?   Tim Notes:   Testing: More of the same if not even better.   UC car: solid, A to B over and over. I did pull out too much slipper at the end of the day and causes it to get wild on the hit.   VP: Solid, what a pleasure it is to drive this car. The wheelie bar is AWESOME Told to make a link adjustment and it just made the car even more consistent.   JC belted were awesome   Tire prep is on point.   Bodies, the vette… I got it figured out so I don’t fly it in the air every run but it still feels a bit sketchy during breaking if you don’t go light on the breaks   The Malibu, I have no idea if this body is poor aerodynamically but on the track it’s the most stable thing I have ever run. It does have a blunt nose but the si

TSR podcast Episode “One Car, Two Cars, Red Car, Blue Car” Hosts: Tim Smith and Matt Howsen   Show introduction and welcome.     Tim Notes:   *Yuma race Fighting and tire marks…. No prep perp, Now what? Do friends need to fight for this to be fun?   Tire prep do we need to go over this whole thing again? The track should have addressed those marks as soon as they were seen, to let them go and not expect people to want to stage in them is silly and this is what you end up with.   This is why the simple rule of no marks on the surface works so well, Clean them prep them whatever but have them dry and do a burn out on a carpet.   *Motor claim, well that makes things fun.   News items   Rudis motorsports buy out, we spoke to the new owner and here is what we got. Congrats on the No Name Podcast for reaching 100 shows!   Ryan Mayfield wins in AZ, but it was a street outlaw car!     RC Word Of the Week (brought to you by RC Driver) Dual Rate: An adjustment found on most transmi

TSR podcast Episode “Summer of LOVE or something” Hosts: Tim Smith and Matt Howsen   Show introduction and welcome.   Love you Todd! Get Well!!   Tim Notes:   The internet and reading the horrifying abuse people put their cars or equipment through… blowing tires off freewheeling or needing 100K RPM….   Mid motor vs rear motor and what I have learned   Tyler’s Birthday bash race and how did it go? SO HOT! The weather…. Ice Cream First round of death! I smashed her up good…. Again, with the tires hitting???   How many more times am I going to rub the tires on the body before I finally raise it up? **Corvette summer…. The Heat and your oils…. We should be talking about how the heat and cold effects the shocks and Diff oils.   Flat Tire Blues: How am I going to get home and the story of my night with tow companies….   Next UP** San Diego test day, Great weather, car kind of working and second fastest…   Racing is not the same anymore and I know why but not sure I can get back t

TSR podcast Episode “On the Road Again” Hosts: Tim Smith and Matt Howsen   Show introduction and welcome.         Tim Notes:   Battery break in and how I cycle packs   Funny how easy in the RC hobby we rape other people’s ideas….   The old wiggle some part that’s clearly broken in a video…..   Bodies how lucky are we?? SO many to pick from its crazy   Tire prep rule and why it is even this way, basically its for all the cheaters that we cant control. Fantom motor sheet, one rotor reading, no sensor board and stack resistance… I should call it the data for people that have no idea what they are looking at… its feel good data.   Ryan Mayfield out doing test hits in the street, good times all over.   Old questions from the last show we missed. Tommy Burgess: No prep is getting stupid fast in a hurry, what do you think? Dale Tounzen: does bracing the stock arrow work? Mark Vyne: Feeling on tire prep?   New questions.   News items   Birthday Bash race, Saturday night

TSR podcast Episode “The ARROW Car” Hosts: Tim Smith and Matt Howsen   Show introduction and welcome.     Tim Notes:     Good Bye to our friend Grant…..   (MY) Covid world…. And my week at home…   Battery Break in secret 1st run half power, full squeeze 2-3 seconds burst and recharge 2nd run, 2 passes 2-3 seconds back to back, recharge 3rd run, Full power 1 pass full squeeze. Recharge 4th run, 2 passes back to back full power, full squeeze 3 second burst, recharge You will see less heat and puff and from here forward you can go crazy.   I spent 100 bucks to narrow my car 1 inch   13.5 class WTF did I do?   Kitchen draw wheels for wheelie bar wheels! RAD Jalapeno Balls…..   Super Chip race and James Dribble in the ARROW 70 mph Not as big as others but still a nothing historical RC drag race. Tire problems, lets talk about tire prep.   Where are all the tires? No Clay, no belted… What the heck is happening?     Add a timing system and watch all you people

Night one of another two night show case

TSR podcast Episode “Arizona or Bust” Hosts: Tim Smith and Matt Howsen   Show introduction and welcome.     Tim Notes:   Truce talk, If, When and WHY?     News items       RC Word Of the Week (brought to you by RC Driver) Pitch In its simplest terms, this refers to the size of a gear’s teeth. For instance, a 32-pitch pinion gear has larger teeth than a 48-pitch gear. The number represents how many teeth per inch.     Main Topic:     Arizona Cash Night.   The drive up was uneventful   Get to see Todd and its HOT   Another wife takes me out in first round… Is this my new thing?   No freeway over pass lights made a dark rack so not many photos or video   Ran the DB10 into a light pole then won the next round.   I ran the DB10 and it wheelies a lot so I learned something about roads, flat vs crowns and wheelie cars vs driver cars. So much being learned every time I go out and this is 100% the reason I wanted to get to racing even if I really am not at a level to w