Something to do while the paint dried. (RC Drag cars)

[fhhhstix]

I needed something to do today while Spudd's paint was drying so I got my drag cars out and tried to run them.

The red one is just a simple RJ Speed kit with a 10turn double motor and a 8T racing ESC. It is fast and today I worked on getting it to go strait. I thought I had it dialed in for a good run so I sprayed the rear tires with instant traction (CRC fan belt dressing). The results from that were not good, it launched, carried the front wheels for about 30ft and then it went bad. The front sat down peeled the O ring front tires off the rims then went on it's side over-sped the rear ungluing one rear tire and shearing off the left side axle. I put it back together and still have to re glue the tire and I will try it again tomorrow.

The blue one is a Hyper Drive pan car that I bought cheep from a guy giving up on pan car racing ($500 kit still in the box for $50). I bought it just to build a drag car and ran it once before putting it back to a pan car to race on carpet. Since I don't race any more I started putting it back together as a drag car. I still need a better motor the 21.5 brush-less is fun for putting around but I think I will go with a 5.5 since the ESC is capable of running down to a 3.5 brush-less. I tried a 3.5 last time and it was just way to much motor.









Thanks for looking.
Travis

[BRICKNICK]

Sweet looking hot rods you got there Travis. I'm curious to see them babys run. Rc drag racing is not as main stream as the other genres of rc, hopefully it gets there on day.

[Straywolf]

What no nitro? Those are really nice drag cars, got any video of them racing?

Mike

[fhhhstix]

Originally Posted by Straywolf

What no nitro? Those are really nice drag cars, got any video of them racing?

Mike

Nitro is to slow!!! No videos, it is hard to do by my self since I am the only one here most of the time.

Here is a link to the fastest recorded rc car. It is a Nitro TC3 converted to electric brushless power.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI5xL...yer_detailpage

[Straywolf]

Originally Posted by fhhhstix

Nitro is to slow!!! No videos, it is hard to do by my self since I am the only one here most of the time.

Here is a link to the fastest recorded rc car. It is a Nitro TC3 converted to electric brushless power.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI5xL...yer_detailpage

Thanks for posting the link that was really cool to see

Mike

[1985 kenworth]

yea that was cool. never seen anything in an r/c that fast before..wow...way too cool

[Kaf343]

**** that was fast.

[Izzy]

I like the blue one.....