the R/C thread.......
 

for christmas i bought myself a used hpi E-savage (got a smoking deal on it), i was going to get a nitro one but they're way to noisy for where i live.......
this thing is fun and fast, i just replaced the batteries and the twin motors.......also for nightime i added some led's so i could see it :D

what are your R/C toys?

some vids of mine....


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you can hear me hit a street sign near the end of this one :D
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you new floridian......

I have had a multitude of cheao RC crap but not much good. About 5 years ago we had some early 90s losi stuff but none of it was much good. I have thought about taking the chasis off that and making some kind of road monster. Other problem out here is the lack of flat ground and not much pavement in the country.

I used to be big into the RC cars but once I started playing with real cars, well...

That said, two years ago I bought a Blade CX2 indoor helicopter and started flying it around. Over time, I've tweaked it to the point where I can only fly it outdoors because it's just too fast for the living room.

Here's an old picture when I first bought it...

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1233529209.jpg

I bought my grandson (8 yo) this past summer the best 4x4 truck at Radio Shack they had; he drove it straight into the lake. Hasn't worked well since. Ha!

I've got an R/C park flyer, but the wing is busted at the moment. Haven't had time to mount the new one.


Like this one.
http://www.masportaviator.com/articl...rLeadPhoto.jpg

I think we all know about my R/C er, hobby...

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http://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-discussions/403678-3600-ft-msl-my-r-c-glider-today.html?highlight=r%2Fc+glider
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-discussions/444684-my-rc-glider-now-has-wirless-video-2-mile-range.html?highlight=r%2Fc+glider
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-discussions/454481-anyone-know-about-multiple-antennas-same-frequency-issues.html?highlight=r%2Fc+glider
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-discussions/281518-r-c-glider-fun.html?highlight=r%2Fc+glider

I had several cars during the 80's (we had a club in HS):
Mugen Bulldog II
Team Associated RC-10, an original and a B2(1995)
Team Associated RC12i
Bolink Round Tracker 10
Bolink Eliminator 10 Pan Car

The technology today is amazing, esp the 4wd touring cars with Lipo + Brushless motors. I still wish I had my original RC-10 as they have kept their value.
The only car I kept is the B2.

yea.....and? LOL

to be honest with you having moved from the akron oh area we got the same weather as you, i'm much happier here, i had shorts on today :D

the next upgrades for my e-savage will be auminum bits for the rest of the chassis and suspension, and a brushless motor conversion :)

I have a big RC speed boat. Its a little over 4ft long. It has a water cooled 50cc engine in it. I'll try to post a picture later

My uncle built this from scratch Its only 23cc though
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I've been in and out of R/C for years. My brother is actually a sponsered pro. :rolleyes:

But My best friend and I both bought Traxxas Slash trucks. They really are tough, handle just as good as any of my associated or losi stuff from the late 80's early/mid 90's and were cheap! Watch this video. It's like a skate vid but it sold me on the truck and I've had a blast with it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7hG2nIUegA

Like a bmx or skate vid' but with R/C!!

Associated Nitro TC3's, one belongs to my son, the other is mine. He runs an O.S. .12, and I alternate between an RB Concepts .12 and a hot-rodded O.S. FS26, a four cycle motor. It has a piston/sleeve from an FS30, and a slide type two needle carb from .12 2 cycle motor. Both cars are two speeds, and I have two different ones set up for my car; one for the 2 cycle, one for the thumper. His is the yellow #69, mine is the blue #68.


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Higgins- Where do you race those and how fast do they go?

I have an old tamiya 959. Keep meaning to sell it.

I've always been into the R/C stuff I used to race 1/5 scale on road. Now I have a Traxxis Revo 3.3 and a Traxxis Slayer. Both are gas trucks and are just for playing around and the back yard.

I also have a E flight MCX and a CP Pro helicopter.

Jeff, Those are some good looking cars.

How big, fast, and how much?

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 ;)

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1233548270.jpg

1/12.

Don't know, bought it used and never did anything with it. Looks like someone assembled it, didn't paint the body, and never ran it. But bits like the rear wing, cockpit interior, etc were missing and still are.

Don't know what they are bringing nowadays, I need to check. It's been sitting in the basement for years.

NVM just did some checking and a good one is north of 500. I would just crash it so i dont want to buy one that is rare. I really would like to have one like higgins posted.

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.

SmileWavy

Oh - here's my latest airplane:

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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.

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

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1233553513.jpg

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? =)

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

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.

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.

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. ;)

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.

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.

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

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

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...

me too :D

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

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

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

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

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>

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1235793918.jpg