Joined the Nascar club. What a fun, cool game with a lot of ball tricks. I ordered an LED OCD board last night and I can tell that's going to make a huge difference with the inserts. There are inexpensive, ghosting, white LEDs in the inserts and it looks awful due to flickering and lack of lighting effects.

I swapped over my Pinstadium kit last night and it looks terrific. I mainly play in a dark room, so I prefer the playfield well lit and Nascar really benefits from the lighting. The colors pop on the playfield and it's great to clearly follow the ball(s).

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Excellent! Did you keep the stock settings or make changes?

So. Yeah. An LED OCD board is a must for Nascar. Holy cow! What an incredible difference with the LEDs acting like normal bulbs for all the cool effects, fading and sweeps to properly display.

I can see the handful of non-ghosting LEDs I installed, because those are the only ones showing flickering. All my other LEDs are old, flat top, ghosting LEDs and they work perfectly.

Seriously, before the LED OCD, it looked like every damn insert was lit due to the crazy flickering. Many times I wasn't sure if an insert was legit lit or not.

Value wise, the LED OCD makes perfect sense in Nascar due to how many insert bulbs there are. Buy xx amount of non-ghosting LEDs and you're close to the cost of the board and still don't have the great effects.

Has anyone used pinblade type artwork on cabinet sides? I have another set of mirror blades but I think side artwork would look much nicer and could tie the entire game together.

Are these the ones you ordered? I didn't see them listed on Pinball Pro's site. Is there another version available besides the crowd? I think the crowd looks really good and was what I was picturing along the sides.

https://www.retrorefurbs.com/shop/nascar-pinball-sideblades/

Definitely use non-ghosting LEDs in the inserts, or even better, install an LED OCD board. The inserts look crazy with LEDs that ghost in this game. The LED OCD board smooths out all the insert effects and looks great. My eyes were going crazy with all the flickering and ghosting in this game otherwise.

This. The socket mounting tabs love to snap like balsa wood.

I'd test all the fuses in the backbox and can't recall if there are fuses under the playfield. Do the coils work in test mode?

An HUO Nascar just sold last week, asking price was $3k, don't know what it sold for.

I owned a Mustang Pro for a few years and really had fun with it. Best part of Mustang, for me, was replacing all the songs with my own. I had a blast with that. Finally was just time to move on and get another game.

Picked up a Nascar trailer toy from Walmart for $14 to see if I could improve the bland, plastic, truck hauler area. I was looking for a larger scale truck (this is 1:64) - more like a Hess truck scale, that I could cut in half length wise and cover the truck "artwork" and give it 3D depth.

As it is, this trailer looks pretty good and stuck in place with double side tape, no modifications. I have no idea who any Nascar drivers are, I only picked this truck because of the color blending in with the existing artwork.

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For $14, the trailer at least upgrades the artwork of that backbox too.

Yeah you're right. A little dab of super glue will do the trick. I have the same issue on my DIY stadium lights and had to start using superglue for the magnet strips.

i replaced the florescent bulb with a LED fixture. Then I mounted the fixture lower and have the bulb shining upwards in the backbox. That really eliminated the glare from the playfield glass because the regular bulb is very bright and made too much glare for my tastes.

Yeah, mirror blades do look nice on this game. I didn't have a spare set, so I made graphic "blades" using checkered blade wallpaper border. Looks good enough for me to cover the black walls and give a little visual appeal.

Wow! Great job, I dig it!

Missing the Confederate flag.