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Oh rc. Brings back memories. Maybe 25~30ish years ago I was all in on Traxxas 4-Tec. Had a few of them, even two sets of the 4-Tec Pro with Carbon Fiber. It has been way too long for me to say anything technical but it topped over 70mph. Was also a woman magnet down in Norman Oklahoma. Oh I am deviating and forgotten about the women I once knew. Ha. Campus life days.
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When I was obsessed with the hobby we would go to Tampa for our big races. Was easy for us as we lived a couple hours south in Naples.
Milito, what years were you at winter nationals in FL?
I went once, it was probably 1977,1978. I don't remember, too long ago. I was in the C main if I remember correctly, didn't win.
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I went once, it was probably 1977,1978. I don't remember, too long ago. I was in the C main if I remember correctly, didn't win.
@sucks2beme I always heard that RC helicopters were the hardest to master compared to planes, cars or boats. Never tried flying one.
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When I was a kid, one of my 1st jobs was working at a local hobby shop. It was a dream come true. I was 10yr back in the 80s and I loved every second of it.
We had tons of race tracks near me ( on road & off road) every Sunday morning I would get up super early and my father and I would head over to the track and I would race with a lot of my friends. We mainly did 1/10 on road with RC10L pan cars & we had a blast!
A couple years have passed and I was racing 1/12 pan car, 1/10 AWD touring sedan & 1/8 scale AWD gas ( that was really fun)
I got pretty good and flew to a couple races for national events. It was wild. I met a lot of racers from Japan & Europe which gave me a whole new outlook for the hobby. As I got older I grew out of it and got into shifter Go Karts.
As many many years have passed, bought a house got married and my wife and I have three boys. I’m slowly trying to get back into the hobby as my eldest took interest in it.
It’s shocking to me how much has changed! Gone are the days of rebuilding your motor after every race! I would take out the armature and cut the commutator on my lathe to extract every bit of performance I could. I would solder the wires from my ESC directly to my batteries to ensure the best connection. I would individually balance each NICD cell to ensure maximum performance.
All that is gone now will the advent of brushless motors and Lipo batteries. It’s daunting to me to even think about upgrading all my old 80s/90s tech to today’s standards. Yes everything still works from the 80s/90s I always took care of all my belongings and i still have everything!!! One of these days… one of these days
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Yes I wonder how 1/8 gas is doing now. What RPM and HP the motors are running and are they still limited to 3.5cc? Cars limited to 5 lbs. Guess I need to look it up.
I remember going thru the engines and modded them to get more power. I got rid of my 1/8 R/C car 10 or so years ago.
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Yup same same. .21 Nitro is still the standard but the power is through the roof. OS Speed is the name of the game2 Channel in my home attic/bar/man cave
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What ever happened to RB? I had a badass RB 11 port .21 by Ron Paris.
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Alpha, REDS, OS Speed (and all of their derivatives - NINJA, drake etc), PICCO is mildly relevant still.
OS Speed and REDS have most of the top drivers and others are sprinkled through the rest2 Channel in my home attic/bar/man cave
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How about the chassis? Back in the 90s serpent was king.
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If you are talking on road, I’m way off base. I’m talking off road2 Channel in my home attic/bar/man cave
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Yup taking about on road.
I remember back then the kyosho inferno was the hot RC to have for off road.
