The Rothmans Porsche Power Issue

 This is where things get interesting. During the last race the Rothmans Porsche starting losing power. I was at the end of a session and didn't really do much in the way of inspecting what was going on, so my plan is to do that tomorrow when I have some time. Can't do it today, although I might open the car up and make sure everything's on the up-and-up as far as it goes. Then I'll set up a small over and run some tests. 

I want to see if the Porsche will run alone as a drone car [body on/off]. If it does, then great. If it doesn't then it could be an issue with power or the car. I kinda felt like maybe it was my power supply giving up, and it could be. I'm also thinking it could be a tire rub or some other such issue. It might meaning doing something to reset the ride height. 

The car in question. I really like this car, and I'm sure I'll get to the bottom of what's going on with it.

You'd think that having car problems with something that normally shouldn't be happening would be a major issue, but it isn't really. It becomes more of a challenge. The car is right there. The parts are all on it. It's just a matter of doing the right things to get it running normally again. If I go back to the basic setup, which I will, the issue should resolve itself. If it doesn't, then I should be able to at least see what's doing it. Then I can make the steps needed to fix it. 

This kind of thing can happen, and it's up to you to do what you can to make it work. It's pretty rare for a part to fail, like the motor or something, so it's probably something else. But it's just another thing to do with the car. In other words, it's not a big thing. I'm not worried about what might be wrong with it, even if I haven't completely troubleshooted [troubleshot?] it yet. 

If it is in fact a power supply issue, I have another one....a much better one...waiting in the wings. I'll find out tomorrow and, if it is that, I'll be sending my power piece to Overdrive SlotService for some custom wiring. That's going to happen anyway, but I can't bring myself to stop racing and do it. The season will be over eventually [or will it?], so I'll do it sometime in the near future. 

I also just bought another car. Naturally I'm not going to reveal what car just yet, but I'll do a full thing on it when I get it. It's one that's been on my list for some time, and I'm finally doing it. 

That oughta do it for now. I'll update this if I get lucky with the testing/repairing tomorrow.

UPDATE:

I put together a short oval to do some tests on the Rothmans 917. First I ran it for about 30 laps on drone mode to see if it would run consistently without cutting out. It did. So I took a look at it, and it seems to be a tire rub, although it's not happening now. Figures. I should have expected that it wouldn't do it under non-racing conditions. I ran some laps in manual human mode, and nothing weird happened. I suppose it could have been an anomaly. I guess I'd accept that maybe whatever was wrong corrected itself, although honestly that kind of thing almost never happens. 

But I think it's a tire rub. It felt like that more than it felt like a power issue. And it didn't happen to any other car, and I had done a tuneup just before the race and may have introduced the tire rub then. So here's what we're gonna do; I'm going to run it as-is and keep an eye on it. If it starts to show those symptoms again, I'll tune it on the spot and keep it in the race. It might be a matter of setting it one particular way and leaving it at that.