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General Discussion => The video room => Topic started by: plkracer on March 02, 2009, 07:30:37 AM

Title: Barracuda Run
Post by: plkracer on March 02, 2009, 07:30:37 AM: Took it out to Buena this past weekend, had LOADS of fun. Car did great, couldn't ask for more. Got a little video of my uncle driving before the rain came in.

My uncle has only had about 30 minutes of seat time so far so he isn't pushing it that hard. Hopefully I can eventually get some video when the car is being pushed real hard.

Don't mind the guy revving his two stroke directly behind me around the three minute mark. He pulls up right behind me to watch the buggy then decides to clean out his motor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJJ0EZrO8jo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJJ0EZrO8jo)
Title: Re: Barracuda Run
Post by: SPEC on March 02, 2009, 09:35:44 AM: He just wanted to be in your video ;D
Title: Re: Barracuda Run
Post by: fabr on March 02, 2009, 09:36:13 AM: Great to see you get it going and nice to see you are happy! Now go out and have more fun.THRASH IT !!!! ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Barracuda Run
Post by: plkracer on March 02, 2009, 01:52:05 PM: Quote from: Spec on March 02, 2009, 09:35:44 AM
He just wanted to be in your video ;D

Well I was about to give him a reason to be on the video... but he skidaddled. He ruined the audio for that whole portion... :(

Would love to Fabr, but I got 2 1/2 weeks of school left in the quarter and it's coming down to finals. When I get home, it's Moses Lake for a whole weekend.
Title: Re: Barracuda Run
Post by: Engineer on March 02, 2009, 02:09:57 PM: Very nice Plkracer! Looks like everything is working well. Next time give us a walkaround on the car. That cuda design is really growing on me.
Title: Re: Barracuda Run
Post by: fabr on March 02, 2009, 02:10:35 PM: Screw school!!!! Buggies are more important!

Uh,not! ::) ;D ;D ;D Get to studying! 8)
Title: Re: Barracuda Run
Post by: plkracer on March 02, 2009, 02:43:01 PM: Quote from: Masterfabr on March 02, 2009, 02:10:35 PM
Screw school!!!! Buggies are more important!

Uh,not! ::) ;D ;D ;D Get to studying! 8)

haha, I know. I was talking with my uncle about school. It is important, especially now, to get ahead of the pack.

Engineer, you know the funny thing is.... I did do a walk-a-round video. Guess what... I left it on my dad's computer because I was using my sister's SD card and i forgot my jumpdrive. I know it is confusing, but long story short, I am at school, the vid is at home. I was going to do some voice-overs to talk about the car too, but that will have to wait until I can get the video.
Title: Re: Barracuda Run
Post by: Enemy on March 02, 2009, 05:32:10 PM: Quote from: Engineer on March 02, 2009, 02:09:57 PM
Very nice Plkracer! Looks like everything is working well. Next time give us a walkaround on the car. That cuda design is really growing on me.

YES! VERY NICE! Great to see you are getting some dial in time on her! :) :) :)

And Engineer couldn't of said it better.. Me like Cuda to ;D
Title: Re: Barracuda Run
Post by: Doug Heim on March 02, 2009, 07:29:00 PM: Great to finally see video of it! Thanks for sharing/ Looks awesome! 8)
Title: Re: Barracuda Run
Post by: plkracer on March 03, 2009, 12:39:10 AM: Holy cow, over 120 views in less than 24 hours. Not bad!
Title: Re: Barracuda Run
Post by: fabr on March 03, 2009, 06:42:41 AM: Yeah but I looked 112 times! Just kiddin'ya!!!
Title: Re: Barracuda Run
Post by: plkracer on March 03, 2009, 09:12:33 AM: yeah, I watched it my fair share, but it looks much better on the computer. I wonder why youtube doesn't have the high quality option yet.
Title: Re: Barracuda Run
Post by: dsrace on March 05, 2009, 08:34:23 PM: nice video! looks like your uncle was having a blast and there is nothing sweeter than the sound of a sportbike engine in a rail!!!! next time take a fully auto paintball gun with you for those pesky 2 stroke mosquito's. ;D;D

youtube does have high resolution but you have to format in high res before you upload and it takes for ever to upload a 1g file to youtube.
Title: Re: Barracuda Run
Post by: Admin on March 05, 2009, 08:36:45 PM: cool video, But why are you never driving it is always uncles or cousins... ;D
Title: Re: Barracuda Run
Post by: Engineer on March 05, 2009, 08:45:29 PM
Title: Re: Barracuda Run
Post by: Engineer on March 05, 2009, 08:47:04 PM: Quote from: Enemy on March 02, 2009, 05:32:10 PM
YES! VERY NICE! Great to see you are getting some dial in time on her! :) :) :)

And Engineer couldn't of said it better.. Me like Cuda to ;D

When will we see your single seat project log started Enemy? ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Barracuda Run
Post by: dsrace on March 05, 2009, 08:48:49 PM: Quote from: Engineer on March 05, 2009, 08:47:04 PM

When will we see your single seat project log started Enemy? ;D ;D ;D

ya, when you gonna start that new project? I'm going to have to pay close attention to it!
Title: Re: Barracuda Run
Post by: Doug Heim on March 05, 2009, 09:29:02 PM
Title: Re: Barracuda Run
Post by: plkracer on March 05, 2009, 09:53:41 PM: Um... rake angle... ehh.. Doug any help here? I know it is either 16.7 or 12.7 degrees, but which one... I'm clueless.

There are other videos of me driving the car. The halloween one I am driving in the dirt and the last few passes of the car. I am also driving it at first in the test drives.

It started to rain pretty good that day and it began to get had to see out of the goggles so any hard driving was risking it. Plus, I didn't want to get it all muddied up.

This video wasn't the greatest. Maybe I should have taken off my gloves? It is hard to find the zoom, and the digi cam is very slippery with winter gloves on. Not to mention it is hard to hold still.
Title: Re: Barracuda Run
Post by: Doug Heim on March 05, 2009, 10:42:03 PM: is the rake angle the upswept part of the nose? And if so do we include the angle the chassis sits on the ground?
Title: Re: Barracuda Run
Post by: trojan on March 05, 2009, 10:48:57 PM: Doug, yes

Eng: no anti-dive
Title: Re: Barracuda Run
Post by: Doug Heim on March 06, 2009, 05:38:54 AM: Thanks Troj... I came up with 19.5*

Chassis sits 2.7* on the ground
the upswept nose is 16.8*
Title: Re: Barracuda Run
Post by: Engineer on March 06, 2009, 08:18:23 AM: Quote from: Doug Heim on March 06, 2009, 05:38:54 AM
Thanks Troj... I came up with 19.5*

Chassis sits 2.7* on the ground
the upswept nose is 16.8*

Cool! Thanks, that is quite a bit of rake. Is that not on the drawings? Don't they give an angle to cut the tubes at? Or does it just tell how high the front tube is in relation to the lower frame?
Title: Re: Barracuda Run
Post by: plkracer on March 06, 2009, 02:09:25 PM: There is an angle in the drawings. It's 16.7-.8 for the bars, but the drawin shows the whole chassis tilted back 2.7 degrees too.