oh man! nice! This has been a long time coming! congradualtions! When you said in the other topic that you mini-z has a good turing radius, i thought you were jsut making fun of me! Congrats on finally getting one!! Wow, this is almost as exciting as me getting one!
With mini-z tracks, you really only need 2 feet of track width.
as for layouts, i'll think of somthing real soon. With a variety of stuff.
where do you have this 12x38 feet place? Thats a pretty crazy rectangle...
i just made a grid (for the track) and am designing right now
i definitly dont have as much room as you, maybe outside...
I dont really wanna race as a big a track as you can fit....
well here's the design. it was afun one to do (i love designing tracks, dont lol

j/k me). I forgot about staires and stuff, so you can play with it however you like...
oh when i made it jpg, parts of the starting grid got all meffed so bear with the jpg format

i'll get the grid in a sec...
you dont have to pretty please, i'd love to help in any way i can to see a brand new mr-02 zip around a brand new track that i can say i helped with

yeah the reason i made the entrance to the pits so dirtect is so the pits are on the edge so you can work on your car easilier.
heres the graph:

yeah i made the track so you can have so high speed racing but still have some slower technical stuff.
OOH!!!! IDEA!!!! (i know, i have those alot) how about you take away the barreir in some places so you can block off sections so you can fast easy tracks or long tracks.. that would be cool
now that i could do.
pvc? and we could have different classes, low pile carpet, hardwood, dirt, tarmac, tile, you name it!
dimensions? I think 2.5 foot lanes would compliment pvc pipe good. I have a few 10' sections in the garage right now...
about the lap timer, heres what we could do:
http://www.***********.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20805************ is mini+z+racer
resize your pics before they kill you!! oh and i made our track on xmods track builder, now showing dimensions! and use of pvc pipe....

hey i've been sig-quoted!
so have you now... twice... in one sig... hmm
i just looked in ym garage and found out i have enough to make that track above. I just need to buy some elbows and whatnot...
well, i have to go, cya tomorow....
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wait, the track that we're both gonna make or the one i designed?
post pics....
well, i have to pick up some elbows and whatnot then i can make mine
wow, i'm speechless (in a good way)
my dream has become a reality... overnight! That's really cool
i just did the math, it would be about 100usd to use foam so i can't do that, but concrete (basement/garage type, outdoor has too much grip) for the mini-z's and maybe a dirt rally for xmods? I'm gonna use my awd lancer evo 8 with truck tires.
well, i'll run to the hardware store today and pick up the 4 elbows i need to make our competition track then assemble!
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concrete it is!
I also have this loft above the garage (my new house actually is pretty sweet) so if you have any plywood, we can race on ply wood too.
I really wanna do the xmod rally to, just dont have enough for truck tires, maybe i'll make some, or find some, or somethin like that.
I might not be able to run to the hardware store today but definitly tommorow.
I'm using 1/2 inch, thats what's been laying in my basement for quite some time waitng to be turned into a track, now it gets what it want's...
just not as cool as it was gonna be, i was gonna make the road course on xmodsrc.com, but maybe some other time, i dont have any money...
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zzmt tires!!! Deh! But they might be too small... ooh idea!!! I'll be back with pics!!!
but why put plywood down for a rally? we do like what yekosc did and rip up grass. Or find a 10x10 dirt patch, that would probably be better....
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sweet, looks really good. Well, i'm almost done iwth my idea....
i went to my sailing camp dance tonight... it was pretty fun
what i mean by a rally is find a dirt patch, put the pvc barriers on the track, and vioiliolla, instant rally course!
i'll be here with pics later tonight on my lancer rally!
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oh no!!!!!! Just wait till you get your mini-z and some more pvc because i already built the track!!! Go to the crt section in a little bit and you'll se it there...
heres my wonder ful idea, using zzmt tire's as rally tire covers! to make it more offroady, while having an easy conversion to road!
these are the tires:

These are what was cut off of the tire to make it more normaler:

And they stretch right over the road tires! (like that sweet red effect? I did it by putting my finger over the flash)
[img]http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/3725/track003ni8.th.jpg[/img]yeah, just ge some more pvc later and wait for the mini-z to come, no rush, i'll just be practicing and posting vids for a while. Oh and making that lap timer
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you can use a zipzap lap timer, i said that before...