r/c cars?

[$*Blake*$]

ok here it is my friends want to get into r/c car drifting?? i was like k count me out but they have NO i dea what they're doing and i dont want them to get jipped. so anyways i think someone on the board might be able to help me out on this one. what is a good setup to go for drifting? im pretty sure they want to go electric but is that good? or do they need nitro? what is a good company/website. any suggestions would be nice im just trying to help them out.

[Twitch]

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I havent messed with these since I was like 14, but I used to have a 1/10th nitro that I would race on street courses, never drifted it though. They will probably enjoy the nitro cars over the electrics ones though. As for companies, HPI racing probably is the best for on-road r/c cars. Stay away from Traxxas though. Hope that helps.

Edit: Also HPI is the only company that makes both a Trans-Am body and a Camaro SS body.

[$*Blake*$]

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do u have to like refill the nitro's?? if so where would u get it??

[Twitch]

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You need three things to keep the nitro's running. You need a charged glow plug igniter, spare glow plugs(basically a mini spark plug), and you need nitro fuel. If your gonna race anywhere that doesnt have electrical outlets, then nitro is the way to go. You fill up the tank, put the glow plug igniter on the glow plug, and start it up. Usually you get like 15 minutes at full throttle on a single tank. If I remember it was like 20 bucks a gallon for nitro fuel, but a gallon will fill up like 30 or so tanks.

Here's the only downside to running nitro though; roughly after running two or three gallons through the engine, you are supposed to do a top end rebuild. It's not hard but it just adds up in expenses. It's common though on two stroke engines, they only last for so long before they need a new top end. And as to getting nitro fuel, you can pick that up at a hobby store, or order it online.

[blackFbird_98]

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You need three things to keep the nitro's running. You need a charged glow plug igniter, spare glow plugs(basically a mini spark plug), and you need nitro fuel. If your gonna race anywhere that doesnt have electrical outlets, then nitro is the way to go. You fill up the tank, put the glow plug igniter on the glow plug, and start it up. Usually you get like 15 minutes at full throttle on a single tank. If I remember it was like 20 bucks a gallon for nitro fuel, but a gallon will fill up like 30 or so tanks.

Here's the only downside to running nitro though; roughly after running two or three gallons through the engine, you are supposed to do a top end rebuild. It's not hard but it just adds up in expenses. It's common though on two stroke engines, they only last for so long before they need a new top end. And as to getting nitro fuel, you can pick that up at a hobby store, or order it online.

I agree but to add to it you also have little set screws that are always working themselves loose and springs, I personally will never own another nitro car all electric from now on

[Earnhardt132000]

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Check out Frequency-RC's videos as well as BannedRC for some help and info.

[crazygrrrl]

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A good place to get R/C info is from http://www.rccaraction.com

If your friends are beginners, I would highly suggest that they start out with an electric powered car and then advance into nitro. Reason being, electric is cheaper, easier to set up/tune, and needs less maintenance. If you mess up an electric motor, you can easily go out and buy another one for $20-50, but if you f-up a nitro engine, it would cost a lot more to repair or replace it.

Also, electric cars are slower than nitro, so if they're crashed, they have a better liklihood of surviving.

I don't know much about drifting, but I'm assuming that you would need a rear-wheel drive R/C car, not a 4WD one, so that eliminates the TC3/TC4 and RS4. I'm not sure if Tamiya has a car that does drifting, but maybe Kyosho might.

If your friends don't mind buying used, an old RC10 buggy or RC10 DS (yes, the old gold-tub alloy, rwd off road buggy), could be bought off eBay for as cheap as $50 and would probably make a decent drifter. Add in some bald tires and a modified motor like a 16 turn triple, and you'll be skidding all over the place in no time.

[Twitch]

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Speaking of the 4WD idea, you can easily turn any 4wd car into a rear wheel drive car. Assuming the front differential is run by a belt, all you do is take off that belt and you have a rear wheel drive car.

['94 Camaro RS]

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You need three things to keep the nitro's running. You need a charged glow plug igniter, spare glow plugs(basically a mini spark plug), and you need nitro fuel. If your gonna race anywhere that doesnt have electrical outlets, then nitro is the way to go. You fill up the tank, put the glow plug igniter on the glow plug, and start it up. Usually you get like 15 minutes at full throttle on a single tank. If I remember it was like 20 bucks a gallon for nitro fuel, but a gallon will fill up like 30 or so tanks.

Here's the only downside to running nitro though; roughly after running two or three gallons through the engine, you are supposed to do a top end rebuild. It's not hard but it just adds up in expenses. It's common though on two stroke engines, they only last for so long before they need a new top end. And as to getting nitro fuel, you can pick that up at a hobby store, or order it online.

i agree 100% with you. i had the old traxxas t-maxx with the .5 engine in it. it haules *** but it costed me sooo much money cuz it kept breaking. if your going to go in competition like that expect things to break and have the money to fix it. a gallon of nitro will last almost 55-60 tanks not 30 like one person said. but once you understand how the machine works it becomes easy to fix them or diagnose what wrong with it.

[Twitch]

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i agree 100% with you. i had the old traxxas t-maxx with the .5 engine in it. it haules *** but it costed me sooo much money cuz it kept breaking. if your going to go in competition like that expect things to break and have the money to fix it. a gallon of nitro will last almost 55-60 tanks not 30 like one person said. but once you understand how the machine works it becomes easy to fix them or diagnose what wrong with it.

Yea as I say its been like 8 years since I have messed around with these things. 30 was just an estimate. But thanks for correcting me on that.

[JusFlyinBy]

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I haven't messed with my nitro car in like 7 years... I was paying 20 bucks a gallon for that fuel. So whats it at now? Has it gone up?