John Ford has been a leading
authority on slot car racing since 1965.John Ford has been a leading
authority on slot car racing since 1965.
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E-Mag - You call it emag, I call it imag, but it is all here in E-print. The www has many emags relating to slot racing. Check out the Scale Auto Racing On-Line Links page, and surf on.
EMF - EMF stands for electromotive force. This is the current developed by a slot car motor (or any motor for that fact) which is turning without current being applied. If you take your slot car motor and attach the armature to a dremel tool, and turn it on, the rotating armature will generate a small amount of current. This can be read on a standard digital volt meter. You can also see the electromotive force in action by disconnecting your brake wire on your controller. Run full blast down the straight and let off the trigger. Oops? I forgot to tell you it won't stop!
ERI - The del Rosario's have been in slot racing as long as slot racing has been in slot racing. ERI is their distributorship located in New York.
ET - In drag racing and road course qualifying, et means the same thing. Elapsed time, meaning the amount of time taken to get from point A to point B, or in the case of road racing, from point A back to point A. Of course, if you get an exceptionally good ET, you would want to PHONE HOME and let someone know about it!
Eagle - A slot racing distributor in Enid, Oklahoma, owned by Floyd Guernsey. Established in the early 80's to replace the late Lloyd Drews Broadway Hobbies distributorship. The passing of Mr. Drews left no distributor in the south central United States. Eagle has grown to be one of the largest with both slot and R/C products.
Earring back - When soldered with the loops up, it makes a perfect wire loom on a slot car chassis.
Eat It - To lose a race in a particularly humiliating
manner. "I bent the chassis in the first segment so I totally
ate it". Also the inspiration for Joel Montague's slot racing
newsletter "Somebody's Got To Eat It" published in the
1970's Thankd to MG Brown for this.
Elmsford - Established in the 60's by Lou del Rosario, Elmsford Raceway is one of only a handfull of raceways still operating in the same building since the beginning. Located on Saw Mill River Road in Elmsford, New York, it is a must visit if you are in the area.
Entry Level - This type of racing is held exclusively for those racers who are "greenies" or "newbies" at the sport. If an experienced racer is allowed to race, it must be for the purpose of education, and his points are not counted in the series.
Edge - Parma's new breed of stamped steel chassis, used in their latest offering to the drag racing market.
Eldon - A manufacturer from the '60's which specialized in HO, 1/32, and 1/24 scale home race sets. They were just one of many companies like this that cropped up in California to take advantage of the "Slot Racing Craze".
Elimination racing - The race is be divided into as many consi's and semi's as are needed to see that everyone has an equal opportunity to race. There are various ways of setting this up. The approved Am/Slot method places the top 8 qualifiers alternately into the A and B Semi's, (4 each) with the racer who turns the most laps and sections having his or her choice of lanes and so on down the line. The remaining competitors will be placed into as many consi's as are needed. The first consi will have eight racers. All other consi's will have at least six. Two will move up from the first consi to run the next one and so forth. Four will move up from the A semi and four from the B Semi to make up the 8-person Main in all races.
Emperior - Only two of these tracks was ever built. One was built for Walt Disney's Bowling center in Denver, Colorado. I was told it was never raced on, and now resides in the storage building of a recluse gentleman west of town who has a large collection of oddities from the past. The other was in the warehouse when AMT bought the company, and it was labled with the AMT logo and shipped to France where it is still being raced on. It was the largest track designed by American Tracks, at 270 ft. New American Tracks designed a modern day version, but one was never built.
Endbell - That little almost round thing that fits in the can. They can be any number of colors, white, red, green, black, etc. There are even aluminum endbells for the high end slot motors. Aluminum helps dissipate the heat from the commutator.
Endbell heatsinks - Usually made of aluminum and located under the slider plates. Not often today, but in days past, a large aluminum heatsink was fitted and came back over the top of the motor. More effecient cooler running motors today make the need for this bulky hardware not necessary.
Enduro - A race of longer than normal lengths. A two hour enduro would consist of 8 twelve minuteheats with three minute breaks between the heats. A four hour enduro would consist of eight 25 minute heats with five minutes between the heats, and can go on upward in like fashion as long as you would like them to go.
Endplay - Refers to that movement of the armature inside the can between the bearings. Too much endplay is not good. Endplay too tight is not good. Can you figure out the rest?
Engleman - Stan Engleman built a line of slot car tracks from his plant in El Paso, Texas. Today they are simply referred to an Englemans, but the actual name of the company was "Hi Speed Tracks". Stan also built a line of tracks for Alltech out of Florida, but a difference of opinion caused Stan to retire to the Dallas, Texas area and start up a cabinet shop. He still lives in the Dallas area, but no longer is interested in building tracks.
Entrants - What you are if you enter a race.
Entries - What all the racers are that enter a race.
Entry fees - The amount of money charged for entering a race. The higher the total entry fee's, the higher the prize payout in raceways who offer race prizes as incentive for the racers. Usually 1/2 the total income from the race entry fees is set aside as race prizes, and handed out in the form of race bucks, or merchandise certificates. In this manner, the raceway owner is rewarding the racer for doing well, while not costing himself a single dime. The raceway owner already has the total raceway entry fees in his register. He must consider that half that amount can be rung in as track time, and the other half as merchandise purchases. With this system, the raceway owner makes 100% of half the entry fees, and 40% of the other half. It can be considered as simply pre-selling his parts.
Epoxy - Epoxy could be the paint on the surface of a slot track, or the compound holding the wires down on your armature at 200 thousand rpm.
Epoxy paint - See Epoxy.
Erasure - What does an erasure have to do with slot racing? Lots. It will clean the rust off chassis, and the crud off a commutator. If you have a dremel, spinning the arm in it will greatly speed up the cleaning of the commutator and stacks. Be sure to clean out the comm vents with an exacto knife after cleaning with an erasure.
Escargo Bros. - World famous Escargo Bros. are those two slot racing bozo's from Canada who continue to grace the pages of Scale Auto Racing News with their own style of great white north humor. The cartoon strip is penned by former slot racer Bob Shaw.
Eurosport - A class of racing cars comprising both 1/24 and 1/32 cars. Both use very high powered motors with the latest technology, and non wing race cars. These cars look like real cars, but their speed is way out of scale.
Euro Slot - A magazine published by millionair philantropist Dr. J.P. van Rossem of Belgium. He organized several World Championship races in the late 80's, both here in the U.S. and in Europe, but amid unwarrented criticism from some American Pro's, he pulled his support from the american breed of high speed cars which make such events so exciting. The magazine is still published on an irregular basis, and J.P. and his son Pikki still race slot cars in Antwerpen, Belgium.
European rotation - Originally developed in Europe, and first adopted in the United States by Jim Honeycutt of San Antonio, Texas for use in the Texas Championship Series. This method of lane changing is currently adopted by nearly all racing orginazations. Using this method, the racer skips every other lane travelling down the track from red, to green, to blue, to purple, and then moving one lane over to black and back up the track to yellow, to blue, to white. Then, one lane over to red and repeat. No matter what lane you start on, you follow this rotational pattern until, after 8 rotations, you get back to where you started. The primary advantage of this rotational pattern is the fact that you do not race beside the same racer during the whole race. See staggered rotation.
Exploded - What a group 7 motor does on a King track at 18 volts. See "grenade"
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