the R/C thread.......

[mikester]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

Team associated RC10L pan car (grandfather of what Higgins has)
hot battery, custom wound motor, does close to 50 mph when I gear it all the way up. BTW Jeff, 4WD is for sissies

What dog compared to today's standards - or Higgin's car...that 4 stroke is flippin sweet! I do RC Airplanes and almost nothing but 4 strokes. I'd love to trick out my .15 powered car with a 4 stroke like that. I think that engine is a little rare - not a lot - just a little. Does it run hot, 4 stroke exhaust is quite a bit hotter than 2 stroke too.

Anyway, back to bashing sammy's oldie!

RC10L's HA! 2wd! HA!!! today nearly everything is 4WD and the motors are brushless. You pop a brushless in there and even with the same old a$$ Sanyo SCR's you'll go twice as fast (and probably have little to no control to boot!).

I love it. My first job was in a hobby shop at 13 years old building cars and airplanes for customers. I worked part time at hobby stores into my mid-twenties even when I had other 'real' jobs. If I had the time today I would build airplanes on contract. My favorite buggy for a looooong time was the RC-10 - man I wish I still had one of those old a$$ tanks with the aluminum tub chassis. I would trick it out with an undersized brushless and a lipo battery and it'd be a rocket.



Oh - here's my latest airplane:










It's a P-51B (Sig ARF) with retracts and a very old OS 120 4 stroke (like 25 years old). I think it's like a 64" wing span and about that long too, about 12 pounds. It scoots along pretty good but when one with a more modern engine gets in the air mine looks like it is standing still.

[YTNUKLR]

Rare Tamiya #44021 that I built..."1/8" (really only the body that is 1/8, otherwise more like 1/10) MINI Cooper, all stock except 2-Speed Trans. 4WD TG10 chassis

[phoenix_iii]

Just curious, once you do the conversion, how fast are they going?


Like a 1/8'' car going 35mph... scaled up (wheels/rotation), how fast is it really going?

Why can't we make electric cars like THAT? =)

[YTNUKLR]

Roughly a multiple of whatever scale...so, for 1/8, it's a factor...if the car goes 35 mph, it goes 35*8=280 scale mph

Think about it; a car has about 25" total diameter wheels/tires, these are 1/10-1/8 that size

[slodave]

I'll have to drag out my my R/C cars and take some pix. One's electric, with two 911 bodies, one for the track, one for show. The other is gas (nitro), two speed, tops out at about 70 MPH, has a 996 body and a Ferrari 355(?) body. I also have a fan boat that sits in the rafters of my parents garage.

[mattdavis11]

The silicone oil that may be used in some RC car's gear boxes, is great for rebuilding a fan clutch. It's a whole lot cheaper at the hobby shop, and you can pick the weight you want. 3000, 5000, 10000 cst, whatever you want.

You guys have some nice toys.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by mikester

What dog compared to today's standards - or Higgin's car...that 4 stroke is flippin sweet!
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Anyway, back to bashing sammy's oldie!

RC10L's HA! 2wd! HA!!! today nearly everything is 4WD and the motors are brushless. You pop a brushless in there and even with the same old a$$ Sanyo SCR's you'll go twice as fast (and probably have little to no control to boot!).




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LOL I know, but believe it or not there are people here that actually like long hood 911s too. Comparing my son's car to Jeff's is like comparing a 69 911S to a new 997. Apples and oranges but both cool.
No RC snobs allowed.

I raced an RC12 on carpet back in the early 80's and did pretty well. I was telling my 10 year old son about it and decided to get a similar car for him, hense the RC10L from e-bay.
I have about $80 tied up in it and he has a ball with the car. I have some used capped tires on it now and did some suspension work so it actually handles pretty well.
With a little driver skill it goes very fast, unlike some of the more modern cushy RC cars that drive like sofas (sound familiar? ) j/k

I could spend $500 or so on a brushless 4wd car with all the bells and whistles or even more than that for a nitro car, but my son has a ball with his $80 car and it's almost as fast as the others at 5 times the cost. I like that. After all is said and done, it's still a toy for pete's sake.

[poorsche930]

Originally Posted by YTNUKLR

Rare Tamiya #44021 that I built..."1/8" (really only the body that is 1/8, otherwise more like 1/10) MINI Cooper, all stock except 2-Speed Trans. 4WD TG10 chassis

I thought the mini chassis used for the cooper, beetle, renault alpine, etc were closer to 1/12 scale. Because they are small 1/0th scale. 1/8th scale cars like the new associated RC8 desert truck, and 4wd nitro stuff is certainly larger.

[71T Targa]

I have two Team Losi XXX-NT's that I haven't used in years if anyone's interested. One is a pull start, and the other has a new OS-12 that's never been started. I have everything you'd need, but probably can't ship fuel.

[HelmetHead]

Nobody with a Tamiya 935? I've been lurking for a NIB on evilbay for a while..

[Heel n Toe]

I'm with Sammy... AWD is for sissies (who can't control a 2WD car). I would add that anything larger than 1/12th is for sissies also. Heh heh

I used to race 1/12th electric... had a lot of fun. Most fun were enduros where he had 2 or 3 man teams and we ran for 2-4 hours, pitting for battery changes.

Go here and look at any of the IFMAR 1/12th scale world championship race videos if you want to see lightning in a bottle:
http://www.teamorion.com/Media

[Jeff Higgins]

We race these things in a local series during the summer. All racing is done in a large parking lot (it moves around year to year). The organizer has a trailer full of side boards to enclose the track, and plastic FIA curbing style barriers that are used to lay out the course.

These things never really hit top speed on the size of track we can lay out in a typical parking lot. Just like real cars, we gear them for the track, so ours are geared to top out at maybe 50 mph max. They will certainly go much faster than that, if you can find room.

The four stroke is an off the shelf O.S. FS26, meant specifically for cars. That said, it is absolutely not supported, even by O.S., in any way. You can't even find flywheels and clutches that fit it's oddball crankshaft (they just use the airplane crank). I wound up having to adapt 1/8 scale stuff. The gearing must also be a good deal taller than for a two cycle, and nothing it available. I wound up building my own gear sets for the clutch and transmission from a mix of HPI and Traxxas gears. There is no exhaust system available for it, either. You can tell mine is home made. The single needle rotary carb it comes with might work well enough in an airplane, but it is junk for a car. Like I said, I wound up with a two needle slide valve carb from an O.S. .12 two cycle. Finally, it is difficult to supply it with fuel. On a two cycle, we typically pressurize the tank from a tap on the tuned pipe. Do that with a four cycle, and all it does it foam the fuel, due to it much larger and further spaced exhaust pulses. I wound up with a Perry micro-oscillating fuel pump (you can see it in the photo next to the radio box). It is adjustable for flow volume, and works wonderfully with the heavy vibration of the four stroke. And, finally, what really woke this motor up was the "big bore kit". I simply bought a replacement piston and sleeve for the FS30 airplane motor. It fits right into the FS26 cylinder/crankcase casting.

Anyway, my younger son and I have raced these for about 7-8 years now. He is now 18, and much more interested in real cars. We are currently building a '68 912 into a 911 for him, complete with an MFI inducted 2.4. Should be running in just a few weeks, as a matter of fact...

[bell]

Originally Posted by HelmetHead

Nobody with a Tamiya 935? I've been lurking for a NIB on evilbay for a while..

me too

[David McLaughlin]

934: http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXRPJ7&P=7

934: http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXRXV1&P=7

935: http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXUVS9&P=7

[Palum6o]

I have a Taisan Starcard GT2, new in the box that I may be selling.

[porsche930dude]

Iv got a savage a rc18mt and a micro-t. I usto make and sometimes sell cages and bodies for the savage

[porsche930dude]

[crustychief]

Those crawlers are awesome! I just deposited my swear jar for the year and bought a top-flite 182 Cessna! who ever thought cussing could be profitable??!!!

[porsche930dude]

Its not a crawler the cage is so i dont destroy it sliding across the pavement at 40mph lol

[Chocaholic]

My 14 yo son is an RC plane fanatic! Has about 7 planes of various types. Here's a pic of him with a small electric 3D foamy. We recently added floats to it so he can fly it on the lake behind our house>