carbonboy Posted April 29, 2012 Report Share Posted April 29, 2012 Reanimating an old thread here, but what the heck.... I figure there's gotta be more people than just me playing with these things! I have the smaller end of the RC scale, 1/18th. Electric too, spend enough fiddling around with them as it is so nitro wasn't my thing. Looking to keep it cheap, I picked myself up one from eBay, had a ball & crashed it many times. Hassled the heck out of the seller for spare parts,eventually got an email asking if I wanted a road car, a short-course truck & a buggy he'd used for parts. I gave them an offer, they accepted it & the postman brought me some goodies. The lot. Road car spares. Short course truck spares. Buggy, shares pretty much every vital component (excluding things like body mounts) with the truck. Also good fun for chasing my dog around the yard & vice versa, he's not afraid to chew it! :laff: Evil plans came to mind, stripped the truck down to bare chassis. Built a block of high-density foam. Bought some cheap polyester resin. Did some more eBay shopping for bits for the road car, brushless motor kit. LiPo battery & tester, 2 of. LiPo charger. See where this is going? ;) The plan is to twin-motor power the truck using the motor/battery from the road car, install the brushless/LiPo gear into the road car & build my own fibreglass shell for it. 3 guesses as to what car I'll be copying... since I can't find/buy one, I'll bloody make one! :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madKE35coupe Posted May 3, 2012 Report Share Posted May 3, 2012 looking good mate :) my next door neighbour and i both have a few nitro road cars. he has just gone abit stupid lately though.......got himself a TRAXXAS REVO 3.3.....absolutely insane piece of gear. wheelstands that muck comes factory with wheelie bars :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carbonboy Posted May 3, 2012 Report Share Posted May 3, 2012 Wheelie bars as standard? Fugging cool! :y: What do you have? I'd love to play with those kind of toys, I just don't have/can't justify the dollars. I do enjoy watching the nitro trucks at my local track, (there's both a dirt & a tarmac course) it was the simplicity (or so I thought :lol:) of electric that got me. One day... :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimL Posted May 3, 2012 Report Share Posted May 3, 2012 Ive Got a 1/8th nitro buggy, an XTM XT2, just an entry level buggy, still goes alright though Had heaps of fun with it, it doesnt get used much these day though, maybe once every few months. Its on its second engine too, after this is how the first ended up :rolls: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toy-Yoda[RL] Posted May 3, 2012 Report Share Posted May 3, 2012 That's........ʞ©$ɟing impressive. Shear the crank? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carbonboy Posted May 4, 2012 Report Share Posted May 4, 2012 Whoa...:blinks:..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pozman Posted May 6, 2012 Report Share Posted May 6, 2012 probably not you guys' style but ill throw it up made my self a custom crawler, its axial scx10 based, but just about everything is custom now http://s723.photobucket.com/albums/ww235/pozman/?action=view¤t=62515e5a.mp4 http://s723.photobucket.com/albums/ww235/pozman/?action=view¤t=46164ce2.mp4 also have an old nitro street car but snapped the conrod, and my brothers old vintage tamiya bigwig that I'm doing up again, hard to find parts for the old girls tho paul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philbey Posted May 6, 2012 Report Share Posted May 6, 2012 I want to get an HPI firestorm just for doing jumps and so on and tearing up the dirt. But I should just get my nitro sport going. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carbonboy Posted May 7, 2012 Report Share Posted May 7, 2012 probably not you guys' style but ill throw it up made my self a custom crawler, its axial scx10 based, but just about everything is custom now also have an old nitro street car but snapped the conrod, and my brothers old vintage tamiya bigwig that I'm doing up again, hard to find parts for the old girls tho paul Rock crawlers, boats, planes, helicopters, whatever! :) If it's remote controlled & you play with it, put it up. :y: Anything you don't customise Paul? :laff: I want to get an HPI firestorm just for doing jumps and so on and tearing up the dirt. But I should just get my nitro sport going. Going to see if you can land it on your neighbours roof this time? :wink: Maybe not, jammed throttles aren't cool. :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oh-KE Posted May 7, 2012 Report Share Posted May 7, 2012 Cool. I love rc cars. I have 3 at the moment. All Tamiya ofcourse, It's the rc equivalent to Toyota :) and all of them brushless electric ofcourse :) I have a tt01 r33 skyline which is silly fast. A ta02 ford f150 truck which is a bit of a crawler/ trail basher. And a lunchbox which is just hilarious. Does massive wheelies and barrel rolls. Will have to get some pics up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carbonboy Posted May 11, 2012 Report Share Posted May 11, 2012 Cool. I love rc cars. I have 3 at the moment. All Tamiya ofcourse, It's the rc equivalent to Toyota :) and all of them brushless electric ofcourse :) Will have to get some pics up. One day I'll get a Tamiya, spent a lot of time recently looking through their range & well, ......... :wub: Yes please. :yes: I finished rebuilding the off-road truck out of all my spares & since I had a spare motor laying around.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pozman Posted May 11, 2012 Report Share Posted May 11, 2012 Rock crawlers, boats, planes, helicopters, whatever! :) If it's remote controlled & you play with it, put it up. :y: Anything you don't customise Paul? :laff: na not really, can't help myself, just got to feck with shit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philbey Posted May 11, 2012 Report Share Posted May 11, 2012 Going to see if you can land it on your neighbours roof this time? :wink: More than likely yes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carbonboy Posted May 12, 2012 Report Share Posted May 12, 2012 na not really, can't help myself, just got to feck with shit That's the spirit! :y: More than likely yes! Politely requesting that you film this. :laff: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wagn Posted May 12, 2012 Report Share Posted May 12, 2012 I've got a tamiya ta05 VDF 1.8 counter steer setup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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