Any hobby R/C GEEKS in here?
 

I have been an rc geek since i got my MRC buggy at 9 yrs old...went from that to an hpi RS4 rally, then an rs4 pro that i carpet raced, a duratrax evader, losi mini t.... abd the more recents my boats....LOL and a car i got on a whim witg my current project... an HPI nitro rs4...just got done putting brembos on the nitro... LOL and also squared away a home brew exhaust for the 46" 4 stroke weed eater powered boat i am working on...

:hi: right here. lol I started out building planes out of balsa wood with a cox .049 engines and guidelines at the age of 9 or 10. I still have a few of the engines sitting in a box. I have my first rc plane and well. I've sold off some of the RC cars, boats and trucks. Right now all I have are the one Rc plane waiting for me to reskin, one Traxxas T-Maxx 3.3, a couple of electric RC cars and lots of parts and engines.

any tips on cold starting nitros Jerry? i am still new to em....LOL i went thru the breakin (4 tanks of heat cycle, then a few not exceeding half throttle, then 3/4 etc...burned almost a quart of fuel before it saw full throttle) on a new redcat SH .18 engine in the Nitro rs4, but it seems to give me fits starting cold... i prime it til fuel reaches the carb, 2 more primer pumps like the manual states, and try starting. it either floods the cylinder, or is still bone dry and i am sitting there pulling like a maniac trying to start it... once started, runs great, idles great, head temps around 250*F. im a small engine mechanic, but cant seem tho quite figure this one out....LOL all fuel line is fresh Tygon as well.

It seems like any temps below 50 they are hard to starts. I've used a heat gun a few times to warm the head up which makes it much easier to start.


All my RC cars and Trucks had electric starts.

Ahhh that could be..... its still cold in NY....LOL these are the things i dont know....LOL i am very close to converting to an estarter on this on just for the hell of it....

The estarter does make it much easier to start. I've pulled on too many to go back to a pull start.

My favorite RC right now is my Hubsan 501s Quadcopter. It's more relaxing to just fly around and not be stressed out and worried about crashing and breaking it up.
Racing the Nitro cars and trucks can get expensive. I've broken up swing arms and twisted up axles from racing. Those little Nitro engines can put out some serious torque. The splines on the axles will look like a spirals on a screw after a few races.

racing the electrics gets equally expensive.... $60+a battery pack, and just as fragile arms, and just as fast...LOL not to mention racing stadium trucks... longer, equally fragile arms....and jumps....LOL then add in a hot brushless system like i did, and run 3s lipos (11.1v) and it goes fast and breaks faster...LOL

The Jato 3.3 was clocked with radar @ 64mph. It could possibly go faster but was geared low for the track. It got T-bone once and broke all 4 wheels with swing arms off. The car that hit it only lost the front wheels.

i have to put my evader back together and stick my bike GPS in it.... that thing could certainly keep up with the traffic in front of the shop, and that road was a 55mph zone... i would be curious to see what my mini t could do on 3s... was fast enough on 9.6v packs to break every part in the dang thing....LOL would need some better aero though, its twitchy as heck... but... thats what happens with a 8100kv brushless.....LOL :hehe:

What fuel are you running?20%? The local hobby shop had there own 20% fuel made somewhere. That stuff worked the best. No name, just 20% written on the 1 gallon jug with a marker for about half the cost of the name brand. lol The Traxxas 20% Top Fuel work good but not as well as the no named stuff.

i have been running Byron 20% with 12% oil IIRC, its all the local shop has... either that or 30%

Not this kid. I am at the age where I don’t need to get hooked on another hobby, cuz given the chance, I will. I’ll just choose to live vicariously through you guys.

BTW, ever run a Cox .049 in a bedroom? Ehh, what? Can’t hear you.

Ah yes :hehe: Mom wasn't too happy lol

I got a question for you guys ,my buddy and I were wondering if we can use a radio to control an electric trolling motor on an aluminum boat at my camp ,it needs to travel approximately 250 feet dock to dock hauling materials .We figured one of us could load the boat ,while the other could unload it on the other side .We do have a trolling motor with an electric steering system although we no longer have the actual foot pedal .We have lots of 12 volt power if needed .

I'm sure it is possible. It's will depend on how the electric steering controls are setup. Good idea BTW. :tup:

well i am at it again....LOL the on road car got old quick... my street is narrow, my driveway is gravel... so aside from driving 30 min to a mall parking lot there really isnt anywhere to run the on road car... so, few weeks ago, i picked up a basket case old nitro evader (i still have my electric evader, so i have some spare parts...LOL) and dropped the wheels from the electric on the nitro, sourced a tank, and swapped the rear shocks over to the nitro...also pulled the SH18 out of the RS4 since this ones sleeve and piston are beyond shot...plating is flaking of the sleeve its so bad...LOL

the $45 listing pic:

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/UPoAA...as/s-l1600.jpg

and the current status:

I got my first at age 14, a little Nikko buggy that was so much fun other than it's ravenous consumption of AA batteries. Then I quickly progressed to a completely wore out Pegasus buggy I bought from the local pawnshop.

And then a few years later got the Lunch Box monster van, my first one I had to assemble. That thing was silly fun and very all terrain. But I modded it to the point it was uncontrollable, so I stretched and lowered it, and put smaller wheels and street tires with a vette body on it. That began the silly hobby and I've bought several since then.

And don't believe for a second the combustion powered RCs are the only ones that are money pits. My last 2 are electric and very expensive. I turned my Traxxas Stampede into a stadium truck for the low low price of $2500 (would've been more cost effective to just buy a stadium truck), and I've got $1500 in my Axial crawler.

My latest acquisition is a low dollar 4x4 that's very similar to the stock Stampede, right down to the tires and wheels. But hopefully I can refrain from spending money on it.. :hehe: I'll reveal it in a couple of days so stay tuned. ;)

haha you dont have to tell me... back when i was 12 i was carpet racing electric touring cars... back in the late 90s i had 6 matched 5000mah packs, and ran stock class with my P2K2 and an old futaba esc...some of the guys i raced against still had 3 position wiper escs and a 4/aa battery pack for the radio...:lmao::lmao::lmao:

i was second fastest on the track every single race... only one i couldnt beat was the track owners son...

however, combustion powered ones seem to eat larger chunks at once... want to run for a day? $35 gallon of fuel... a $35 battery pack lasts a year or 2 of running...LOL

Ehh.. I don't care for the gas powered just because of starting issues and buying fuel. But buy you a top of the line brushless, 2 Lipo 3S batteries and a nice charger and you've spent quite a bit of money, nevermind upgrading radios, servos, axles, shocks, tires and wheels etc. It gets expensive in a hurry.

Yeah but there's nothing like the sound and smell of a nitro burner that puts that grin on your face. :D I need to get some fresh fuel and take the two I go out for some exercise. They've been picked up too long. lol

if it starts hard, it either needs a carb cleaning and adjustment, or a new piston and sleeve... both of mine (one OS powered and one chinese built engine) start second or third pull... its no different than a weedwacker...LOL if it takes a bunch of pulls to start, theres something wrong... :hehe:

I haven't ran either of my RCs for almost 2yrs, kinda got burnt out on them so they're setting on a shelf at cousin Hanks along with about 10 other vehicles. He has 3 outdoor tracks and an indoor crawler track. But his interest has waned as well. That's why I bought a cheapy, kinda want to get back to the feel of my very first RC, just simple inexpensive fun.

I've had them start and run perfectly at Hank's, then load up and take them to the local skate park for some fun and they run like crap. That never happens with the brushless electric.

Look up hotbodysracer on YouTube. We haven't posted any videos to the channel in years. But there's a pretty wild video of us climbing 10 feet straight up a tree with a gas powered 4x4 buggy.

I had a duratrax evader with a castle sidewinder combo, would do mid 60's until the diff would grenade. I still have a slash 4x4 with an 1/8 scale power system, slash 2wd with a castle system, baja 1/5 scale buggy and a losi nitro truggy. Also have a 250 and 450 quadcopter and a few planes left that i never get to fly. I need all new batteries, maybe this spring i'll get some, daughter wants to see them run.

I always wanted to get the Slash 4X4.

i have an electric evader too... if you can find the brushless topshaft with the double disc slipper, the nitro st aluminum idler, and an associated B2 diff gear and add carbide diff balls and hardened diff rings and lube the crap out of it, it will be pretty much bulletproof...LOL i ran a 4400kv brushless setup on that trans on 3s for some time... got too squirrely to control over 60... aka go full throttle and buy a new set of control arms...LOL

pop a new plug in it....LOL may have glazed the glow plug over if you didnt run it for some time... just like fouling out a spark plug on an old 2smoker... start it and idle it and shut it down, it will be a hard start afterwards....

my first rc was nothing short of a nightmare....LOL MRC buggy with all PLASTIC bushings... i rebuilt that trans so many times.... then finally got rid of it for my HPI rs4 rally that i converted to an rs4 pro all carbon carpet racer...that was a good car... still have it in fact... i have robbed some parts off it for the nitro rs4 though... then i got the evader, and a losi mini-t...still have them as well... mini-t runs, and i stole the shocks of the evader for the nitro evader i just got....LOL

Been there on race day. Ran the car earlier and had her tuned perfect. Half hour before race time I go to start it and the one way clutch on the E start went out. I called one of my buddies that was already on his way to the hobby shop to get parts for his buggy. I caught him at the check out counter. He picked up the one way bearing for me. Just like in a real race I was hurrying up to get it back together for my race. I literally got it back together a couple of minutes before the race just in time to win that round. Final race was neck and neck with my Jato for the win. :yay:
Man I missed those days.

Had the b2 diff an balls, but they would still end up shattering if it went off road. Just wasn't made to handle that kind of power. I still have 4 stock'ish evaders that i wanted to run on track, then the track closed.


The slash 4x4 was a much stronger platform for doing stupid stuff, handles 4s+ with no issue and the 4wd allows you to actually get some power to the ground.

When i first got the slash 4x4 i jumped it over a buddy's garage. Of course he only recorded the warmup attempt and missed me clearing it. Another buddy with a brushless revo put it though his window trying the same jump lol.

https://youtu.be/nGVX2y1m2ew

well.... speaking of shattered gears OLR.... LOL played with the nitro evader at work on break, and hit a stack of pallets at realtively low speed.... like sliding stop maybe 5mph hit... no problem right?......wrong.... i never had all the motor mount bolts installed, and it shifted the motor just enough to hear that dreaded scccccrrrreeeeEEEEEACCCCHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhh of the spur gettin the knockput punch and a mouth full of missing teeth from the SH .18 and pinion... >:(>:(

oh well... i just ordered a pair of Kimbrough 60t spurs....LOL and now i need to dig thru the parts box for a few extra motor mount screws...:hehe:

yeah after a while they would go out... i actually have a BSR 222 belt drive trans in mine right now, has an 8mm belt, and a gear diff... never did figure out a trans brace so the back end was floppy... hence why i robbed parts off it for the nitro... LOL

80lb 1/5 scale Raminator from Primal RC, for $3000.. 😳

https://youtu.be/ixdtk2hf5KA

If anybody is looking into getting into this hobby on a budget Check out NirtoRCX. I've never bought any of their products personally but had a few guys in our club that have bought both nitro and electric cars and boats. They're just as reliable as the name brand if not more reliable. https://www.nitrorcx.com/
The owner of the campground we use to go too had a full blown course setup and a pond for the boats. We had races every weekend weather permitting. Once the owner sold the campground and new owners took over the course went down hill. It didn't take long for us to pull our camper out.

i also have a Dumas 46" boat, currently powered by a 4 stroke weed eater, but swapping that out over the winter for a 55cc leaf blower motor...LOL

https://youtu.be/DVeP1oCYAuU

and a Volantex Vector 70 26"...

https://youtu.be/50_0xeoCexA

55cc leaf glower motor??? That should make it move a little faster. :hehe: Videos when it happens.:clap: