Anybody Else in to RC's?

jbooker82

I got my HPI Savage X out today and was tearing around.

I have a HPI Savage X 4.6 with HPI's suspension conversion, flux big bore shocks, Hobbico CS-170 steering servo, Hitec ultra high speed throttle servo, DX3S radio.

I also have a HPI Blitz ESE with a Novak Ballistic 8.5T brushless motor, and Spektrum DX3S

Here are some pics.

MillerLiteScott

What are the front 2 wheels for?

jbooker82

jbooker82

For doing Indo's lol.

jbooker82

jbooker82

I have a Willy's Jeep Pickup Body for it too. I havent ever ran any of the bodies that I have painted because I dont want to tear them up. I keep buying the factory bodies on ebay.

Face

I just dug my old cars out of my parent's basement, an Turbo Ultima and Frog/Monster Beetle hybrid. Haven't gotten to using them, my street is too busy and I just re-seeded my lawn.

jbooker82

yea you might want to wait on the lawn tell it is a little more established. I would like to get a crawler or a scale trail rig (little faster than a crawler but looks real.)

treitz3

Face wrote: »

I just dug my old cars out of my parent's basement, an Turbo Ultima and Frog/Monster Beetle hybrid. Haven't gotten to using them, my street is too busy and I just re-seeded my lawn.

Is this the ol' electric Frog? :eek:

jbooker82

Here is the Blitz ESE. The Maxxis body is just a prepainted oem one. The Monster Energy is one I painted. The green M's, and white and green "Monster Energy" are all painted on.

Jstas

Got a Losi Junior T that I need to put back together, a Losi JrX-T that I cannibalized some electronics for another car from to get the other car running. It's broken anyway and I gotta get new tie rods for it. Got a Bolink pan car, a old Kyosho Ultima Pro I picked up at a yard sale. Needs electronics and the shocks have to be rebuilt. I also have a Tamiya TL-01 4WD touring car chassis with a Lightning body on.

I never got in to gas stuff. Dirty, noisy, didn't want to mess with it. It's hard to run them too because they tear everything up and are really way too fast for an average sized backyard. But hey, to each his own.

sucks2beme

Before son #2 was born, I used to belong to a private race club that
ran carpet races with 1/10 and 1/12 scale cars. It was fun.
It was a weekly points series deal. That was decades ago.
Dirt oval was ok, but for some reason it just wasn't the same.

Jstas

sucks2beme wrote: »

Before son #2 was born, I used to belong to a private race club that
ran carpet races with 1/10 and 1/12 scale cars. It was fun.
It was a weekly points series deal. That was decades ago.
Dirt oval was ok, but for some reason it just wasn't the same.

I picked up my Bolink car used with a broken chassis for $20. I learned how to re-laminate graphite, fixed the chassis and went racing on indoor carpet ovals and 8's during the winter. Intense racing and incredibly fast.

jbooker82

Jstas wrote: »

I never got in to gas stuff. Dirty, noisy, didn't want to mess with it. It's hard to run them too because they tear everything up and are really way too fast for an average sized backyard. But hey, to each his own.

I don't know the new brushless and Lipo combo are pretty hard on stuff. They are getting faster than nitro. I got the Novak Brushless Balistic 8.5t in the blitz. It will smoke the tire on rough asphalt. It is nice to just throw a battery in it and go as well.

jbooker82

Keiko wrote: »

Inherited one of these from my Dad when he passed. It's big enough for a 10LB Hell's Pomeranian. :biggrin:
Dad's hobby was building RC, gas powered airplanes. He built some awesome kits and invested a lot of $$$ in that stuff.

Yea building them is part of the fun. My blitz ese was a kit. Just bags of parts and hardware. Like a big puzzle with good directions on how to put it together.

Conradicles

My son is into these big time, more of the rock crawlers, and I'll get him to post some info in the next few days...they are extremely fun!!!

chillywilly

I got a savage x , hpi rs4 car and my daughter has a traxxas rustler. Looking at a crawler next or a gas baja.

newrival

I think theyre cool to watch, but more interested in the aviation stuff myself.

I built an rc car with a chainsaw motor and a steel tubing frame i welded and servos/actuators back in junior high. it probably weighed 30lbs. It lasted about 5 minutes before it got out of range with the throttle wide open and smashed into a steel post for a guardrail. that was the extent of my rc car days, but it was fun while it lasted

When I'm cycling theres a model airfield on one of the trails and its fun to do a few laps around it whn the planes are out.

Anyways, interesting stuff, booker

Face

treitz3 wrote: »

Is this the ol' electric Frog? :eek:

Yep!

Jstas

jbooker82 wrote: »

I don't know the new brushless and Lipo combo are pretty hard on stuff. They are getting faster than nitro. I got the Novak Brushless Balistic 8.5t in the blitz. It will smoke the tire on rough asphalt. It is nice to just throw a battery in it and go as well.

My Junior T could run with the gas trucks for a long time. Gearing made the biggest difference and the electric cars and trucks have a much more competitive power to weight ratio. They have to compensate with gearing though and they either have an insane top end or lots of low end grunt. The biggest benefit to gas is that it has grunt down low no matter the gearing so you can run real tall gears for high speed and still have lots of low end power.

But when I was racing I was running 7-cell packs of SCR 2400's and a Losi Super Insane motor with a modified Novak speed control. No reverse and a 20% peak power boost. If I could get a vulcanized compound for the truck, it's do a smokey burnout on asphalt too. That was 1992-1996 time frame.

The Tamiya TL-01 can light up all 4 wheels on the asphalt. If it's warm out, the HPI tires I have for it get slick like they are greased and I'll get little rooster tails of smoke from all 4 and chunks of rubber stuck to the body. If I get better coil overs, suspension arms and a hotter motor for it, it'd be a drifting terror.

jbooker82

If a brushless setup should do the trick.

Here is a Savage Flux doing a double back flip from a stand still. Running on two 3S batteries (22 volts). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbDdKQPwnlE

Jstas

Pretty sweet!

If I put the right tires on, I can set the Junior T in front of a jump, gun it and have the truck jump 6-7 feet in the air. Of course it'll land upside down if I don't catch it but it's a pretty impressive feat!

Sherardp

Helicopters and Jets is what I've been into so far. Alot of the Marines here run those trucks your have there JB. They are extremely fast and look fun. I'll definitely venture there one day, but the RC jets and helos get the best of my budget right now.

TNRabbit

This 8.5' wingspan Citabria has been hanging in my garage for 3 years...*sigh*

mrbiron

This looks like an awesome hobby but i wouldn't even know where to start as I don't have a hobby shop around here for something like that. Looks like it can get expensive :frown:

gelinas

I really like the 4wd nitro trucks like your savage. Would love to get one, but I have too many other expensive hobbies and am buying a new house.

Very cool tho.

Zeros

I have an old Tamiya Stadium Blitzer and a Bo-link pan car that is missing electronics. I keep meaning to pick up a new ESC for the Blitzer but never got around to it.

I also have a couple RC helicopters, a 2 Ch Propel Micropter, two 3 ch indoor IR helis (Syma S107 and Numen 809) and two 4 ch helis (Revell Proto CX and Revell Proto Max).

I'm not into the cars much anymore but my daughters love to fly the helicopters.

jbooker82

TNRabbit wrote: »

This 8.5' wingspan Citabria has been hanging in my garage for 3 years...*sigh*

Man that thing is huge. My grandpa flys air planes. I think the biggest one he flew had a .80 engine. What's that thing have in it. Zenoa 2 gasoline 2 stroke?

jbooker82

Zeros wrote: »

I have an old Tamiya Stadium Blitzer and a Bo-link pan car that is missing electronics. I keep meaning to pick up a new ESC for the Blitzer but never got around to it.

I also have a couple RC helicopters, a 2 Ch Propel Micropter, two 3 ch indoor IR helis (Syma S107 and Numen 809) and two 4 ch helis (Revell Proto CX and Revell Proto Max).

I'm not into the cars much anymore but my daughters love to fly the helicopters.

I would like to try a helicopter out. Ethire that or a 40+ inch gasoline boat.

jbooker82

gelinas wrote: »

I really like the 4wd nitro trucks like your savage. Would love to get one, but I have too many other expensive hobbies and am buying a new house.

Very cool tho.

Yea the upfront start up cost is kind of pricy. By the time you buy all the equipment you need. Once your established and have the cargers, batteries and other gear it isnt so bad. Parts aren't super expensive and the savage is pretty tough.

greg2350

I have a few.

Sportwerks Turmoil this pic was when I first got it have done many mods to it.


Traxxas nitro rustler.


Blade SR.


Cars are very fun Turmoil is very sturdy havent broken many parts in 2 yrs.
Just got the Heli very hard to fly but very fun.