UPDATED: Pics of my track
 

Still have lots to do, but slowly my track is taking shape. Tonight I painted the inner white lines (have not begun the touch up work on them yet), and started marking some of the corners with Red/White markers.

Over all, I am liking it. This track is lots of fun and is technical enough to be very challenging. We could easily race 4 cars on it if we only had the frequencies.... :mad:

Here is a pic of it. If you look on the floor behind the pool table (my track is sitting on pool table) you can see the "prototype" track I had made out of cardboard and pipe insulation.

http://www.latencyproject.com/zipzap.../track_009.jpg

http://www.latencyproject.com/zipzap.../track_011.jpg

Some more pics over on my track page, but nothing special:

http://www.latencyproject.com/zipzap...pzaptrack.html

that looks pretty good so far. I didn't give mine that much lane room though. It'd help have a variable speed controller. It looks good though.

Nice track latency.

To help judge the scale...Could you take pics with a car or 2 on the track? That would be helpful!

Thanks.

Sure thing...here is one...
 

This is a pic of the track before I started painting it etc....

http://www.latencyproject.com/zipzap.../track_008.jpg

Re: UPDATED: Pics of my track
 

Actually, you COULD get a total of 10 cars in a race...

- 6 Frequecies from the Bits (27, 35, 40, 45, 49 & 57)
- 4 ID (Infrared) from a DigiQ (or you could do an Infrared PCB mod for the Bit or ZipZaps)

...So what's stoppin ya from racing Bits?

latency, wow! that track looks so cool. sure beats the heck out of my little track (on my old unused ping pong table) =P

...racing bits...
 

I have no problem racing the bits, but all the guys I race against have the ZZ cars, and well, they would want another "class" of car for the bits....:rolleyes:

None of them have bits, so that leave me...racing...myself. ;)

I have thought about a brain transplant though with one of the 35mhz machines. :D

Hey, I was wondering if anyone has tried lego road tiles for a racing surface. I plan on doing this as soon as I get my car.

Wow! You are an out of control BEAST! That is a very cool track :D

Jeez, this stuff is like crack cocaine. if I keep reading this board my wife is gonna leave me....

Oh well, I'll miss here when she's gone ;)

Track looks great. I knew those pool tables were good for something. I haven't played pool in months, but we race our ZZ's daily on it.

amstatic....
 

Wanna hear the really sad thing. I have had my zips for 8 days. Talk about instant addiction. :eek:

Re: amstatic....
 

I hear that I built a track in 3 days after purchasing my bit clone and around the same time bought two zz's. next is to buy up 4 freq. microsizers to compare everything else too. IMO the zips seem a little cheaply made. we'll see. :shrug:

started my own track
 

I brought home a 6'x4' piece of press wood. I don't know it's real name; I do know it's the same material used on on the cheap wooden clipboards. I spent about an hour drawing out the course. I used hot glue to affix some rg6q.s. (coaxial) for curbs. When I find my camera I post a pic. I do need to lower the body on mine, it likes to jump the curbs if I hit them right.

that could be"mdf" is it pretty heavy and smooth if so thats it i think that would be a little to slick put a paint job could give it some grio

Yeah it is pretty heavy, about 1/4 thick. It's dark brown & looks like it's tring to inpersonate wood grain. It had to look pretty funny as I drove home with it; I have a Geo Tracker & I had to drop the top to fit it in.

lmao thats funny a full sheet on top of your car to funny i cant wait to see pics of your track a little tip for you corners if it is to slick and you need to paint it. right after you paint it throw some sand paper grit in the paint i belive they sell packs of it at the home depot good luck i have thought of useing the zip zap track on plywood for my track the trouble is finding the tracks i got one to night and i think ill need two more. still laughing about the thought of ya driving home

You don't understand, it was sticking up at an angle like a giant spoiler. The bottom was on the floor against the front seats and was sticking up about 45degrees. It stuck up 2 feet past the the roof height of my tracker.
What's with the ZZ's sliding and rolling over around corners. Ours dont. But I'm running the NOS motor (mine's yellow, thought someone said orange) with the low-blue gears, my GF running the turbo with red gears. according to the ZZ site hers is faster, but I pass her out of the corners. My track is kinda short though 21-23' lap.

I got ma pic. I had to rob batteries from my cordless for my camera.

ok, this is it

Cool track, I like that layout :D

One of these tracks would look good in my game room ;)

Yeah, I thought of the exact same thing today. I think it could be fun, if you HAD some of those. I was at a toy store today, and they want $7 for just TWO TILES!!! By the time you make a track worth racing on, you'd spend a fortune! Lego walls and barriers and such would be easy with those, but the cost pretty much rules it out.

OUCH....
 

$7 for the tiles? I built my track for less than $10 total.

The hardboard I used was $5.25 as it was damaged on the one side. Guy at Lowes discounted it for me. I then spent about another $5 on the rubber tubing from the plumbing aisle.

I had all the paint that I used.

The tracks are not expensive to build, just time consuming, but hey, thats half the fun anyway!!!!

:D

where I race
 

Yeah, Latency, your track DOES rock! I would do something simular, but I live in an apartment complex, and the pool table is in the club-house. Dont want to be lugging a track back and forth that far. Although, a cool thing about the clubhouse....they have racket-ball courts!!!! My roommate and I took our Zips there, and that is a great surface to play on!!! Next time, gonna bring the rally cones and barrels, and maybe I'll get the barrier race set too. No worry about stray frequencies. We both had good range in the court. Only thing, its not open later hours:( Ah well, guess its back to my tiny kitchen floor then!

PT Bruiser