Monday, October 17, 2022

Isaacs and Xavier win at the 2022 ROAR Paved On-Road Nationals at Valkaria RC

 The 2022 ROAR Paved On-Road Nationals at Valkaria RC provided a mostly rain free 4 days of racing from Thursday to Sunday.  Awesomatix USA takes home two more ROAR National Championships (plus defended last years wins in these two classes)-

  • Modified Touring - Sam Isaacs - TQ & Win
  • Stock Touring - Craig Xavier - TQ & Win

Big thanks to the entire team effort helping us come to grips with the ever changing racing conditions.  



Modified Touring

1 SAMUEL ISAACS [Awesomatix] [TQ]

2 CHRIS ADAMS

3 MIKE GEE

4 CORY PARSONS

5 DAVE VERA

6 FELIX LAW

7 COREY RECORD

8 LEX TYLER [Awesomatix]

9 MONTI PANZICA [Awesomatix]

10 DJ APOLARO


21.5 Stock Touring

1 CRAIG XAVIER [Awesomatix] [TQ]

2 JARRETT PARSONS

3 CHAD PEETS

4 FURMAN WALKER [Awesomatix]

5 BILLY SPENCE [Awesomatix]

6 CLAYTON YOUNG [Awesomatix]

7 RICH BOEHMLER

8 JEFF FLASSIG [Awesomatix]

9 KENNETH MOSS

10 ASHTON BRINSON


17.5 SuperStock Touring

1 MIKE GEE

2 DAVE VERA

3 CORY PARSONS

4 CRAIG XAVIER [Awesomatix]

5 DJ APOLARO

6 COREY RECORD

7 BILLY SPENCE [Awesomatix]

8 JAMES MORRIS

9 MICHAEL HANULEC [Awesomatix]

10 TROY SCHAFER


USGT

1 ASHTON BRINSON

2 JEFF FLASSIG [Awesomatix]

3 IVAN DICKSON

4 TODD SOICH

5 RICHARD JOHNSTON

6 RALPH NITZL

7 YULIEN RODRIGUEZ

8 CHRIS LEACH

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Monday, October 10, 2022

Rheinard, Isaacs, Dickson, and Xavier win at the 2022 Mon-Tech NYGP at 360v2

The 2022 Mon-Tech New York Grand Prix at 360v2 was the first international meeting of carpet racers for the 2022/2023 indoor racing season with racers spanning 4 continents -- North America, South America, Europe and Asia!  AwesomatixUSA is proud to announce we took the TQ and Win in 5 classes--

  • Modified Touring - Win - Marc Rheinard 
  • Modified Touring - TQ - Sam Isaacs
  • Modified 1/12th - TQ + Win - Sam Isaacs
  • Super Stock TC - TQ + Win - John Dickson
  • Super Stock 1/12th - TQ + Win - John Dickson
  • Stock Touring - Win - Craig Xavier
  • Stock Touring - TQ - Eric Anderson
  • USGT - TQ + Win - Manny Flores

Congrats to the team for all of the A-main appearances, hard fought battles, team work to help each other go fast!




Modified Touring

1 MARC RHEINARD [Awesomatix]
2 KEVEN HEBERT
3 SAM ISAACS [Awesomatix] [TQ]
4 MICHAEL GEE
5 KEMP ANDERSON [Awesomatix]
6 OLLIE PAYNE
7 KAZUKI A
8 CHAY BLOUNT
9 GUNER MEHMET
10 MICHAEL PABON



Modified 1/12th

1 SAM ISAACS [Awesomatix] [TQ]
2 KEMP ANDERSON [Awesomatix]
3 OLLIE PAYNE
4 KEVEN HEBERT
5 KAZUKI A
6 ANDREW KNAPP
7 JASON ENGEL
8 MICHAEL HANULEC [Awesomatix]
9 CHAY BLOUNT
10 JOHN THEMELIS [Awesomatix]



SuperStock Touring

1 JOHN DICKSON [Awesomatix] [TQ]
2 ERIC ANDERSON [Awesomatix]
3 ROBBIE DODGE
4 CRAIG XAVIER [Awesomatix]
5 MAX MäCHLER [Awesomatix]
6 JEFF ROWLAND [Awesomatix]
7 THOMAS BEMMERL [Awesomatix]
8 CLAYTON YOUNG [Awesomatix]
9 MARTIN LECUYER
10 BRAD JOHNSON [Awesomatix]


SuperStock 1/12th

1 JOHN DICKSON [Awesomatix] [TQ]
2 ANDREW KNAPP
3 JEFF DAYGER
4 JOHN THEMELIS [Awesomatix]
5 MORGAN WILLIAMS
6 FABIO EVANGELISTA [Awesomatix]
7 JARED BARDIN
8 JASON ENGEL
9 RALPH MORELLA [Awesomatix]
10 WALO WALKER [Awesomatix]


Stock Touring

1 CRAIG XAVIER [Awesomatix]
2 ERIC ANDERSON [Awesomatix]
3 MAX MäCHLER [Awesomatix]
4 CLAYTON YOUNG [Awesomatix]
5 MARTIN LECUYER
6 ROBBIE DODGE
7 JEFF ROWLAND [Awesomatix]
8 BRAD JOHNSON [Awesomatix]
9 PATRICK ST-GERMAIN
10 MANNY FLORES [Awesomatix]



USGT

1 MANNY FLORES [Awesomatix]
2 MARK TIAMSON [Awesomatix]
3 AL SODANO [Awesomatix]
4 CARLOS PAGAN [Awesomatix]
5 ARVIN NANO [Awesomatix]
6 MATTHEW ABEY
7 JESSE CASTRO
8 CHARLES EDWARDS
9 AJA ARCHIBALD
10 JUAN AMADOR


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Thursday, September 8, 2022

Currency Markets Drive Awesomatix Price Decrease

The US Dollar is very strong right now vs the EURO and as such we are recalculating our pricing on all Awesomatix products.  Price change is effective immediately!  The price change is shocking on kits!!


The Euro Dollar pricing at www.sidepieceracing.com impacts Awesomatix, Mon-Tech Racing and Fenix Racing brands.  Check out the web site for updates.
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Thursday, August 4, 2022

Dialing in Maximum Grip to the A800MMX

 Building upon our prior recommendation for hop-up parts on the A800MMX platform from 2020, this article attempts to consolidate and introduce our drivers to some of the latest setup changes the team has been testing over the past few months.  

Rationale

 The A800MMX platform has been known to shine on high grip surfaces.  In recent months we've started to see harder tires being used in carpet racing that didn't require sidewall gluing plus the summer asphalt racing season was right around the corner.

 This summer we've focused on building setup(s) that generate grip.  Some of the big gains in overall traction have been found thru-

Long Upper Links



This was a popular setup back in the A700 days (2013/2014).  The longer links allow the car to roll deeper into the corner.  To re-visit the past you need to add 8x 40mm long 3mm diameter turnbuckles to replace the A700-AT14.  The ball studs 

The popular Awesomatix option is 
To finish building the links you'll need




A final old school part is to replace the A800FX-AM19FX with the A700-P22 to hold the front spool and rear diff.

Progressive Springs



Modern A800MMX kits already come with the upgraded PSS Screw Holder (A800-AT119) and a non-Progressive Spring Screw (A800-ST69-00).  Again, looking back at the past (Spring 2019), the first PSS hop-up (A800-PSS) included both a 25% Progressive Spring Screw (A800-ST69-25) and a 15% Progressive Spring Screw (A800-ST69-15).  These Progressive Spring options have mostly featured on the front end of Asphalt setups.  In the past few months we've attempted running PSS 15% and 25% springs on the rear end of cars on both Carpet and Asphalt.  The end result was a rear end that didn't slide around the corner and had more overall grip.

Bent Springs


Awesomatix touring cars by default come with a hard spring (A700-SPR01) and a thinner optional soft spring (A700-SPR01S) is available for purchase.  

BS Works has engineered a Awesomatix TC Spring Bender to all consistently change the angle of the Awesomatix factory 90 degree springs to have either a 100 degree or 110 degree bend in them.  

In testing so far the 100 degree and 110 degree springs has shown increases in overall side bite of the cars.  


Nothing new to see here

As a catch all, there have been a series of hop-up parts we might not of talked about much, but are certainly on our cars or in our pit bags-








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Monday, August 1, 2022

shop.AwesomatixUSA.com now at www.SidePieceRacing.com

  This past week we moved our web store - shop.awesomatixusa.com - over to our mega R/C super store - www.sidepieceracing.com - in order to improve our customer's shopping experience.  

If you have any issues with the new store please contact us.  




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Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Getting ready for the Asphalt racing season -- Know your PSS and Suspension Screw Type!

PSS

When rebuilding your dampeners its a good idea to double check / verify which ST69 screw is installed.  Modern A800MMX kits include the ST69-00 screw that yields 0% progressive spring rate.  Other potential configs are to try which will yield more grip
  • 25% progressive spring rate -- ST69-25 -- the flat end screw with groove on the side
  • 15% progressive spring rate -- ST69-15 -- the flat end screw
  • 0 progressive spring rate -- ST69-00 -- the pointy end screw
Visually identifying the correct ST69 screw is your only way to not fail on the bench!



Suspension Screw Type

Hand in hand with PSS setting is the amount of tension applied to the leaf spring.  Moving to a Type 2 configuration is equivalent to a 4mm 'softer' setting.  Type 2 is very common with hard springs on the front of a touring car.


Additional detail on dampener configuration found on page 23 of the A800MMX manual
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