I wrote an earlier article about building the IROC hot rods. That article took into account how to build identical cars based on measurements... you know, is the chassis flat, does the top plate match the chassis, are the armature Ohm readings close, are the magnets matched and close in strength etc. If you would like to catch up and read about that you can do that here. Well as good as that sounds that's just the basics... there is more and that is the fine art of tuning the IROC chassis. If you're interested then click the read more link below.

As noted in a previous article I went looking for some information on the Front Range HO website only to find the website no longer exists. I was looking for information on magnets for the pancake chassis. I had saved that information a while back. It took me a while to locate it. Again, I would like to thank Front Range HO for this information. If you're interested in that magnet information then click on the read more link.

The term IROC is the acronym for International Race of Champions. The concept of the IROC series was to identically prepare stock cars by a single team of mechanics in an effort to make the race purely a test of driver ability. If you would like to know more about IROC there are many articles on the webbernet. Anyway, this article is about building a set of IROC hot rods or as I refer to them IRODs. If you're interested in the building of the IROC hot rods then please click on the read more link.

If you're like me one of the most aggravating tasks with a T-Jet is installing a crown gear. It really tests my patience. There are several things that I have found that makes this process a little less taxing. If you're interested, then click on the Read More link. 

For you competitive T-Jet racers out there, here is an article about preparation of the top gear set... particularly if you are using a mass produced out of the box gear set as opposed to a precision CNC machined set like the ones you can get from RT-HO. When preparing a car for racing you basically need to think about four things... alignment/squareness, friction, current, vibration. This sounds pretty simple from a high altitude point of view, but, these things are intertwined in every part of preparing competitive T-Jet. If you are interested in how it pertains to the top gear set with respect to friction then click on the read more link below.​

As stated in an earlier article I went looking for some information on Aurora armatures only to find that the Front Range HO website could not be found. I had saved that information several years back. It took some time to find it but I did. That said here is some great information on AFX armatures courtesy of Front Range HO. If you are interested in this info then click the read more link.

I went looking for the Front Range HO website to refresh my memory on a T-Jet armature only to find that the site no longer exists as of this writing. Fortunately several years ago I had copied that information. After a considerable amount of effort in searching my file archives I found it. If you are looking for some great armature information courtesy of Front Range HO then click the read more link.

The armatures made by Autoworld and Dash have a tendencey to throw the windings. Well you may ask what is a thrown winding. Take a look at the picture to the right and it shows the loose armature wire at the end of the armature pole. I asked how to repair this on a couple of Facebook groups and got execellent answers. I would like to thank everyone that responded but in particular Ralph Rosson, Jeff Hartman, and Dan Cronin. This can be repaired and better yet it can be prevented. If you're interested then continue to read on.

I am going to try to enter a T-Jet race toward the end of the month. In looking at the tech specs for the car I saw that the Dash Chassis, top plate, and arm and most parts are allowed. So, I thought I would try to enter with a mostly T-Dash car and see how it compares. So I started going through my T-Dash 2.0 chassis looking for the best armatures and will hopefully prep two cars for the  race. In the rules it allows for balancing the arm either by adding epoxy or by removing material from the heavier armature stack. I will do the latter. If your interested in how I balance an armature then please read on...