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Well, I've been into RC items since I was a tiny little child.
and since I was going to have money for the summer a bought myself a Traxxas Slash RC truck, got it yesterday, and got in 2 runs today on it.

and it is AWESOME

Anyone else got any *quality* rc vehicles?

I'm sure I'll be uploading some videos some time VERY soon, I guess there is an old small track here that I'm going to hit tomorrow.
I also have a decent RC boat that I rarely use anymore, but it's still cool to have.

edit: took some pics:






and this is a short vid we made, keep in mind, the battery is getting pretty weak in the video, and there is NO battery in the pictures.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgjTTBihlh4

I paid $205 for it, a 7.2v 3000mAh battery, and a crappy charger.
(good price just for the truck, battery is a plus, charger is trash)

Next I'm going to buy an $80 charger, and I just bought 2 extra batteries, another 6 cell 4200 mAh, and a 7 cell 4200mAh.

I'd say on this batt freshly charged it goes at least 20mph. I can probably get at least another 5 outta the 7 cell battery.

Someone has small feet ;D And nice yellow jacket (I think it's a jacket :p).

hope you're joking…those are size 13, lol
and that's a rain jacket I paid $40 for work………

Yes. And pickup your Ziploc bag D:

it goes in my tool box, it has bungee cords in it! leave it alone!

Only if you leave Brittney alone! Leave her alone!

get a 13 turn motor and new gears for it, then it'll go fast ;)

Or better get get like a 8 turn brushless motor, those own

Align Trex450 SE V2.
Powerd by Scorpion ;)

I'll post a pic of my own later, this is just a googled pic :P

Haha, i used to be so into those but i would always love to crash them into things and some of them broke. But i probally still have one or two left. Have fun doing donuts.:rolleyes:

Cnr - Out:p

I took it to a little track just now, I'm not very good at driving it yet…lol
I'll upload a vid after breakfast.

As for the upgrading Narcle, in due time. I'm kinda broke now…but I can't wait to go brushless.

From: Brain
I took it to a little track just now, I'm not very good at driving it yet…lol
I'll upload a vid after breakfast.

As for the upgrading Narcle, in due time. I'm kinda broke now…but I can't wait to go brushless.

I've been wanting to do it with my Rustler (old Traxxas). I have a amazing speed controller in it right now, it can handle up to 32 cells (iirc). Eventually I would like to try it with a brush-less 4-6 turn motor.

Did u see that video where they used a 2 turn brush-less motor with 32 cells. It went 115mph (idk the kph).

lol, wow, 32 cells? thats crazy huge. Mines just lame old stock for now…but when I get the money I'll be upgrading stuff. Here's the vids of me messin around at the track:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4H1HTH-ZAA

I got a plane, but it sucked balls and I broke the propeller on it… twice.

very nice, mines old school battery and i lost the charger :(

my dad used to race these things, and he was the MC at a track… he was sponsored at 1 point, had RC cars that could do 200 MPH with enough track that costed $1500…

ppl called him the weedman, cuz our last name is weed xP

tell your dad to send me one of his old cars! :p
seriously though, I'll pay shipping :D pretty please?

only the cool people have seen my Gas RC car

From: MylesMadness
only the cool people have seen my Gas RC car

Post it o'cool MylesMadness, so we may be as cool as you…

From: Brain
tell your dad to send me one of his old cars! :p
seriously though, I'll pay shipping :D pretty please?

they weren't HIS, they were allan Losi's (owner of his sponsoring company) so when he was done he had 2 give them back…

and besides, he prob wouldn't anyways xD

darn it, well tell your dad to call up losi and demand free cars for me!

From: Brain
darn it, well tell your dad to call up losi and demand free cars for me!

xD he probly could if he wanted, but it's been ~10 years since they've talked

ahahaha, sweet! I would totally do it if I knew losi! but I don't, so I have to actually buy stuff :(

From: noidea
Post it o'cool MylesMadness, so we may be as cool as you…

It was a gift for the irc people :p. They also got to see me do a faceplant on a minibike :p

Alrighty, here comes a few more pictures, some actiony ones


a setting on the cam lets you take these pictures, a crash one to follow:





And I think that's about it for now :p
I'm sure I'll be posting more as I get them, and another video eventually.

and wow, that multi shot combination thing really makes the clarity go way down….lol

Can you link those pictures instead? They're really stretching the page.

does it look really bad when the page is stretched? or just slightly annoying?

Id far rather go slow (H)

Ooh, traxxas :) Eww, batteries :(

I've got a revo 3.3, but it's not in running order right now.. my bro ran it *a bit* lean; the piston locked up, the crankshaft exploded, etc, etc. New engine please?

Nice set of wheels though, what's your top speed?

I think stock with a 6 cell it goes 23mph with the smaller pinion gear (don't remember what size, just what I read online)
It also came with a street pinion, its a little larger, so it'll go faster. Also, waiting on my 7 cell pack, which will also make it faster! :D

The Revo's look like awesome trucks, I wanted to get the E-Revo (electric version) but it was kinda outta my price range.

My gas powered with enough room hits 40. It got 2 gears.

also, thats a pretty sick rock crawler cripsta….well, beer crawler :p

and yeah, what car you got MylesMadness? Whenever I can afford to throw a good brushless into this and get a good lipo pack I'll be able to hit 50+ :)

but thats not for a while at least.

T-Maxx

http://www.traxxas.com/products/nitro/maxx/tmaxx4910/trx_tmaxx4910.htm

Its stock besides when I had to get a few new parts when the throttle stuck and it when full speed into a football players house

ah, you got a T-MAXX, I hear that's a good rig. If I ever go gas/nitro I might get one of those. Might even get the E-MAXX eventually (electric version, with 2 motors)

bump…

Fried my motor, guess the stock ones suck hard core. Ordered a better one, should be here wed or thur. pretty excite!


edit: here's a pic I grabbed from a video:

alrighty, well I got my new motor, and since everyone seems to hate me and this thread….I am forced to triple post, something I have never done before :(

But this event warrants it, since I have to show you guys this sweet video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUnJZAxLliI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUnJZAxLliI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUnJZAxLliI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUnJZAxLliI

Nice vid, brain! Haha I'll save you the pain of quadruple-posting :p

I got a brand new 3.3 engine yesterday, hopefully I'll have time to install it over the next week. I'll have some videos to share as soon as I'm done :D

that'd be awesome!
At the end of August I'll have some money to buy a brushless setup for my car.
50mph+ here I come!

edit: And i'm totally jealous of your revo 3.3, if I were to get a nitro car it would probably be that or the T-maxx, but probably the revo

That's the new engine. I installed it earlier today, but I haven't had a chance to burn it in, so no awesome videos quite yet :p

I used to be into racing RC cars, but electric ones, not nitro. I have a little xxx-s (Team Losi) that I bought a while back. The hobbytown near my house got new management and quit weekend races and eventually ran out of business (Damn new owners sucked… really bad.) So now I have this car and don't really know what to do with it,,, I have been thinking about putting it up on craigslist, but don't think it will go for very much.

I burned mine in in the middle on January :p. Took FOR EVER!

got my new pinions in, car does wheelies now with still a pretty weak motor in it. can't wait till the end of august, and the new track here is looking awesome, some huge stinking jumps too :D

How much has yours cost so far, I used to sit and watch RC car vids and dream of buying one.

starting from scratch with my slash:

car: $200
Charger: $60
2 batts: $57
(that's enough to get ya started…)
spare tires: $25
Replacement motor: $50
extra gears: $20 (total, quite a few gears)
misc: $20 (shoe goo, oil, engine cleaner, etc…)
(all prices include shipping)

Time: LOTS

end of august I'll be dumping another about $300 for an awesome motor/shocks/and maybe a body. Add another 30 if I get a good battery, another 30 for the balancer for said battery…

Don't forget, parts break semi-often (depending on roughness/luck), but luckily most parts cost about $3-8 a piece (or set of 2). Sucks for me though, since I have to order everything offline, which usually doubles the price with shipping….

Nice. Yeah, if money's a problem, don't buy nitro; they are very expensive upkeep.

I have an electric ferrari and monster truck lol, wanna buy a nitro [gas] rC car/

I wanta buy the Traxxas E-Maxx… but I don't think that will happen until I move away from my parents.

For me the parts I broke going full speed into a tree was $15, and my friend flipped his over and it costed $100. Its all about luck

exactly, it depends what you break. Some things would cost me like $3 to fix, others would cost me like $10….and that's about it..unless lots of things break…if I broke the whole chassis in half I think it'd cost me like $25 to replace that…lol
That's what I liked about the slash, most of the parts are pretty cheap, it's just that the hobby has a fairly high start up cost.

My friend broke his whole suspension. He went off a jump with the springs set to be completely stiff and snapped like everything.

I blew a shock cap off at the skate park the other day. The stock shocks on the slash are all plastic, so I refilled and super glued the cap on :p
(sucks cuz shock oil got all over everything, lol)
It's only gotta last another month till I get the aluminum ones.

And I broke a output yoke =/ So I'm waiting on that to come in the mail.

Got it fixed up, rained here, then I went to the track and MAN, it was fun! So much more traction than the super sandy crap that is usually there.

THEN, the president of the RC club here drove by and told me that he bought a slash today, and he went and grabbed, we did a few laps together (way fun with someone to race with) and then he spun out on a corner, I slid into his car, and I snapped a real axle carrier….=\

Luckly I had a spare from when I previously broke one. I just ordered the aluminum one too, so hopefully they'll be here when in time if I need them again.

all in all, a good day :D so glad he got one too, and smoked him, since he is used to 4WD, and the 2WD slash just kept spinning for him, lol

tri tri triple post…..:(
new video, of old footage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUKWkpeyKI8

nothin crazy, just some stuff I was doin and what not. Hopefully I'll be gettin a call from the rc club prez and we'll go work on the new track today, but it's raining now, and he gets off at 3 or so, so I dunno.

Who's the camera-woman? :P I like that like 12 foot one on the Skate Park video.


Ps: Nice beard =D

camera woman = my girlfriend :p (it's her camera too)

The new track is AWESOME, don't have any pics of it yet, but I drained 3 batts there racing and covered my car in mud….since it was kinda rainy…BUT, it was way fun. Spent 3.5 hours totally taking it apart and cleaning it, now it all nice and clean.
We also worked on the short course a little, changing some jumps around and laying some pipes.

This is waste of money dude.
lol
these things break too easily :(

Have you had one ~~Joker~~? They actually don't break as easy as you would think, and most of the parts are in the $3-8 range.

From: ~~Joker~~
This is waste of money dude.
lol
these things break too easily :(

Nitros are extensive, which I don't run mine often. Thats and I don't got 20 bucks for fuel…

$20 a gallon? that's actually pretty cheap. People around here are lucky to get it at $25 a gallon.

Wow, even worse. My dad got my last one so I didn't remember. $35

ouch, I don't know if 26 is the current price here, the club buys like 60 gallons at a time for 15 people. I think I heard someone complaining that last summer you couldn't find any for cheaper than 36

lol yeah i guess i never had 1 :(
lol poor child hood of me lol, i thought they did lol

my bad :)

Dude nice car. I got a Jato 3.3 and i got it tuned so perfectly it goes about 66 MPH and it pulls wheelies so easily its sick. :D

I had to wait till I was 20 to get one :p And I still can't really afford it :(

Back when my dad had his old job when he got payed much more than he does now we bought it.

I just remembered I forgot to spray WD-40 in the engine last time I used it…

got a video of the new main track. Still some kinks to work out, but it's almost done. The rock pit needs lots of rocks still….can anyone loan us a dump truck and a front end loader in butte, MT?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB3lnb7s4Fg

From: Brain
got a video of the new main track. Still some kinks to work out, but it's almost done. The rock pit needs lots of rocks still….can anyone loan us a dump truck and a front end loader in butte, MT?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB3lnb7s4Fg

I so wish I lived somewhere were people did that…

Agh! I still haven't had time to work on my truck! Job's been keeping me busy.

Hopefully this week I'll have some time to get everything working after school. Apparently you can't burn in the 3.3 with a pull start because it pulls too hard? I think that's BS, but I don't have any choice but to try it, or they won't give me a replacement. Can't wait till I have this thing running again, I want to get some time in before the heavy snows!

bumpy


dropped 175 on a brushless motor and speed controller, and about 90 on 2 batteries.
Should be awesome when everything gets here….:D

double post (it's up to you guys to post after me, so I don't have to post twice in a row…)

I let some little chubby kid drive my car, and wasn't watching him very closely….we are at some car show with the RC club, and some how he managed to break my chassis and rear skid plate. A whole $30 in damage…..

And he was using my crappiest battery, it goes about 10mph tops with it, I have no idea how he did it!:confused::mad:

Rawr.

Wow. The pictures in the air are l33t :). I used to have some of these, but they were very weak. When I was jung, I was sometimes watching a german program for their caroons :p, and there was allways a comercial about a rc vehicle that could drive fast, on hard surface and could even go on water! I allways wanted one of those ;)

I had a RC Car, but i got bored of it because my mom got me a cheap ass one, which went like - 4 mph at tops :p

HPI Savage 21 with a axial 28 in it. Ill get pictures of it in action if I remember

Lol rc cars r so cool, but i think gas powered are sweet.

(yay, not double post)

got my lipos today, pretty sweet lookin eh?
they fit perfect.

Still waiting for a chassis and rear skid plate to come in (shipped today)
then there should be some sweet videos up eventually hopefully :D

Wow, I'm nearly tempted to go out and get myself a little electric rig…

if you actually want a little one, get a 1/16 e revo vxl. Those things are a blast! and really fast totally stock.
but they cost like $300, which is more than the slash. But they come with a decent battery for the vehicle, unlike the slash. And if you have a good charger your start up cost goes down by a lot.

i have an electric tc3 that i put alot of money into, but i havent touched in FOREVER because it accidently fell into a deep puddle and drowned the whole thing a few years ago, i might as well buy the new Team Associated TC5. fun stuff :P

I borrowed a chassis and skid plate from a friend….it'll be a little bit faster with the lipos I got. Check it out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBhu-uA76Ao

From: Brain
I borrowed a chassis and skid plate from a friend….it'll be a little bit faster with the lipos I got. Check it out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBhu-uA76Ao

Omfg, thatès pretty fast for a battery -electric- one!

I think I should get one of those, how much are theyÉ :cool:

200 for the car, then 175 for the motor, and the battery in there was 32, got some better batteries from hong kong that are only like 35, but kinda big shipping charge, but still way cheaper than the states.

plus you gotta get a charger, if you don't already have a decent one

I ran my gas one yesterday, and now it idles weird. It revs the engine while idling…
Went off some crazy jumps and had to yell "DO A BARREL ROLL" many times.

Prepare yourselves for the awesome wheelie popping power of brushless with lipos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-6H0vp5HbM

if you want HD wait a little bit for it to finish processing

EDIT: actually HD is done, make sure you watch it that way!

Dang. Wouldn't it be faster if you put some weight in the front/a wheeliebar, so you can actually run full open?

I hit full throttle many times (maybe not so much in video)

It doesn't wheelie as easy as it looks, since most the place has fine dirt all over, so the tires spin. I turned down the punch by 60%, and geared down, so no more wheelies.

I also have a set of bald tires, broke a differential output yoke, and a steering block :(

epoxy fixed the steering, had a spare yoke, and have spare tires though :D

Well….I sheared the motor shaft off of my motor, lol:crying:
sent it in to hopefully get it warrantied. Finished painting my body, turned out decent, most of the lines on it are pretty crappy, but I'll do better next time.

Paints looks good tbh. Or are those decals?

the main greens/blues/whites/blacks are paint, as are the shock details, the rest are decals.

From: Brain
Well….I sheared the motor shaft off of my motor, lol:crying:
sent it in to hopefully get it warrantied. Finished painting my body, turned out decent, most of the lines on it are pretty crappy, but I'll do better next time.

Ow, if its not warranty that will suck

if it's not under warranty…I dunno what I'll do, I think they charge a flat $40 fee for fixing it. I might just buy a cheap $30 brushless motor that has great reviews.

WEEEELLLLLLL…………………
bumpity/gravedig/bump

Man, haven't posted in here since October? Guess not a lot has been happening with the snow and all.
Maybe I should have this moved to blogs/boring stories so I can double post without fear of being destroyed………anyway.

Here is a video oh my slash in the snow, which is very fun.

and here is an old video of the opening day at the track in August that I never uploaded.

and more bumped…

My friends built an RC airplane for their senior design project. Everything (main parts) are built from scratch. They did have access to a laser cutter and stuff, which made is more easy. But still, they worked their butts off on it.

We just started it the first time yesterday, and it was SWEEEEET.

Here is the video that we got, there were other little runs, and a thrust test at half throttle.
also, it didn't just start up right away on the second hand prop, it took like 10 mins, lol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJIKFYOK1B8

recently sold on ebay: (today)


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how much you get for that Jakey?


had some action on the field today. The first flight of an aircraft:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kSgRw8PvIw

and the tragic ending during a maiden run: SPOILER: it crashes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5_d69nDioQ

I still dream of getting one of these when I have a little bit more spending money…Or a T-Maxx…but I heard slashes are better?

all depends on what you want
T-Maxx or Revo could be good starter nitro powered trucks. You can't really compare a slash with a T-maxx, since they are totally different in all aspects. T-maxx is a big 4wd nitro monster truck, while a slash is a 2wd still pretty big, electric short course truck. The slash 4x4 just came out, which is pretty awesome since it comes brushless. But it still isn't really comparable to a T-Maxx.

If I were to get a nitro monster truck it'd probably be an HPI Savage X, maybe even a savage XL.

Finally broke in my Revo! (again; the motor…. exploded late last year).

I had a great time with it, I'll post pics soon!

From: Brain
had some action on the field today. The first flight of an aircraft:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kSgRw8PvIw

and the tragic ending during a maiden run: SPOILER: it crashes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5_d69nDioQ

Oh mate, where ever those vids were taken, the scenery is beautiful. Envious, I am.

yup, that's Montana for you. That field is part of my college campus, which is on a butte, overlooking Butte, MT.
2nd largest statues in the USA up on that ridge.

noidea, ITS A TRAP!!!

The rest of Butte looks like crap. Its like the worst part of Montana (almost)

:P

shiiiiii, way better than that crap town Missoula….

Buuuuuuuuuuuuuump

Alright, pictures INCOMING!!!!!!!
Got it up and running again with my new wheels and Sushi drift tires.






I think I did a pretty good job on the mods with only a hack saw and a file

That shit will get you laid. Nice work.

Got the new car, it's for sale for $390 shipped to your door! (continental USA)





Well, this is a $95 battery. Didn't get as many as I had hoped, but can't complain about free stuff!






And this is everything included if you want to buy it :) I'd even sell it for like $370 here, since I wouldn't have to pay ebay fees.


E: oh yeah, I normally wouldn't take all the pictures with me in them with the car (see my drifter pics above), but the owner of the company wanted pictures of me with all the stuff they sent to put on their website. Figured I post them here as well.

Nice mustache!

Holy shit Brian, nice! Ive been watching your videos the past 3-4 hours lol.

Thanks mormonman and kingarabian. You shoulda been watching my vids the whole time! Don't you ever read my sig?! :p

How often do you drive these things in comparison to how much time you spend modding/maintenancing them?

I drive them almost everyday. I can say that I drive them more than I work on them. Only have to work on them when something is going wrong. E: (which is more often than I'd like)

anyone wanna buy it?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150476625552&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT

I'd cancel the listing and sell it for 350 + shipping for anyone on srl.

well that sold a while ago.
375 on ebay, after all the fees and shipping I netted $311
I put all that money (and then once over again) and purchased a SAVAGE FLUX HP.
Placed the order Fri night, says it might be here Fri-tues, but we don't get mail here on Sat….so I pray FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WOW!!!
I've got to say, this new RC (the Savage Flux HP) is way bigger than I remembered it being when I first saw one over a year ago. It is MASSIVE, weighing in 12.8 pounds! (5.8 kg). It is SOOOO much fun to drive as well, and tough as crap from the dumb stuff I've already done to it.
Only gripe would be the stock body, pretty thin. Of course it doesn't help seeing how much power it has :D











Action shots and videos will be coming soon!

I used to drive RC cars with my dad, we had planes too (not electric) at that time. Then we sold everything (we had alot of them, like 10 cars and stuff for the planes).

Then we took like 1 years break, and now we have like counting atm…11 planes, 2 programmable controllers and I actually don't have any cars now, 1 helicopter thought, all electric, I love electric because its clean.

I do have some smaller cars, I should get some pictures for you guys.

got some action shots taken from videos.
videos are still coming….



backflip off my legs








the brakes work well


This is simply after giving it too much throttle, tosses itself into the air and then onto it's back.


Well, I think thats about it for now, can't wait till I get my real car back, and I can go out to the RC track or some good spots to drive! (like the skate park!)

Well, I've gotten more quality time in with my Savage. First video isn't the greatest, just wanted to get something up there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yODxgJR-FBE

Just went out and filmed this second one, didn't want to wait for me to put it into a larger video so I uploaded it by itself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V5pFc4XGZk

Alright…..lots changed since then….

First, hit some nice BMX jumps, and did some fairly major damage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7yAJtzvCl4

And then I got it all re-rebuilt, took every screw out and cleaned everything, got new parts for what was broken, got some new wheels and tires too. Not to mention got a new body and painted it up :D

The full offset is a little big….but I figure I got the tires cheaper than new, if I have to I'll take them off with Acetone and put them on some standard offset wheels, and still be ahead of buying the tires new. (barely)
I like the width, feels very planted.

The first many pictures are glamor shots….then action shots to follow Hope you like it.


Body paint turned out pretty good, I think the paint made the masking tape shrink a little bit after the first coat, and some of the tape wasn't on well to begin with, but I'm happy enough with it since I'm just going to bash it anyway.

Stocker wheels:







New Wheels :D (comparing the new, added width to stock)

And compared to a 1/10th scale drift tire, lol.


Glamor:

Finishing off the glamor….followed by ACTION!!!!





ACTION!!! Thanks to my wonderful girlfriend for taking most of the action shots. :)



Great shot!

And to finish it off.
Hope you enjoyed the pictures as much as I do!






Broke the rear carrier just tumbling down the hill. These wide offsets put more stress on them for sure. Going to buy a few more stock ones, (cheap cheap cheap!) if I blow through them all I'll get a different style for sure.
I was able to swap some stuff around, so I don't have any down time :D
it is a very symmetrically built truck.

Thanks for looking.

Haha awesome! I cant believe how well it runs on electricity.

Postwhore ;)

Beautiful shots dude! You're starting to convert a nitro fan here!

most trains run on electricity (diesel electric trains) and some even on just magnets. Shouldn't be too hard to see how a little car can run on electricity :)

Nitro is decent, but electric is much better. But of course there are always personal preferences.

Thanks for the compliments as well :)

I wish I would have ran mine even once this summer. I broke it last year at the end of summer, never got around to finding the issue let alone fixing it

and kaboom. Here is my latest project!!! Enjoy!


Got this crt.5 at the end of January on ebay for a decent price. Was pretty beat up, but came with an almost new 0.12 nitro motor thingy….Sold that off to some guy in Australia for $45, which was great for me!
I spent probably 4x in parts than what I did for the truggy to start with…haha

Not even sure why I bought it…just impulse you know? very bad Brian!

Anyway, took the Mamba Max 4600 combo outta my slash, and the radio system, to use in this. Used a lot of SCRT10 parts on the build to make it really easy. I knew that I did NOT want the RCM extended chassis conversion, I wanted to keep it as small as possible.

Enough with the jabbering, here are some pictures!

This is how I got it, dirty, used, broken, nitro


Here are all the nitro bits removed and ready to send out of the country! Good riddens!

Cleaned up, and these are all the salvageable parts from the auction I won….time to hop on ebay! Thank god for cheap chop shops! I guess there were a few more things, like the front cvds and stuff. But most of it is in the picture.

Now that looks pretty dang good!


Gotta love Castle!

Front Jato shocks. What I bought didn't come with shocks. I figured I wasn't out much since everyone hates them. Went straight to the upgraded stuff!!

Front 1/8th buggy shocks. Got the shock kit for like $17 I think. Not too bad!

Stock springs ride a tiny bit high, but I think I'll let it slide, as I like ground clearance ;)




Chassis looks brand new!! Hardly a scratch! Picked up some plastic chassis guards too, I figured why not?

Painted up a stock body for it, only $12 shipped to my door! Not including the paint though.


And she's ready to run!


I got to test her out at a track in my home town they just built. Having terrible luck with the front knuckles…I've broken 3 in 4 battery packs!!! :surprised:

Waiting on another pair to get here and I hope it was just bad luck….if not I might have to drop big money on some aluminum ones. I see someone makes a set for the SCRT10 that are much cheaper than the OFNA set. Will go that route if I need to!

It was a blast to drive while it lasted though….much different than a savage or a slash.

That looks sick. When I get some cash I plan on finally building one of these :) I love this thread.

Thanks mormonman! If you need any help/advice hit me up or post here. I also just got a sweet helicopter I will share with you guys shortly :)

Well, here is the RC Helicopter I got recently for indoor flying around the dorms!
It is the E-Flite Blade Tandem Rescue: http://www.bladehelis.com/Products/Default.aspx?ProdId=EFLH2500
Really fun to fly, and has enough control to do some tricky maneuvers.

Also, my girlfriend's mother sent some late Christmas presents, and this little guy was in there! It's a really cheap one, and I wasn't expecting much from it, but it is actually pretty fun too! You can only control the throttle, and the spin of the heli, it always tries to go forward.

You should drop a microprocessor into one of those :)

And do what? Autonomous flight?

I'm work with a professor here with the autopilot system and program he got the school to buy ($6k). Should be fun, and I get credit for it :D

Yeah - a system with rfPIC's and a couple of ultrasonic sensors or some other clever proximity sensor (I don't think you could get good enough accuracy with consumer GPS) would let you fly a swarm of drones with one remote. After that, all you have to do is mount some fireworks on each drone, and you've got a nice little air force.

What's the name of the system you're working with? I'm intrigued!

The system is called Micropilot.

Sound interesting and all, but also sounds like a lot of work. It's troublesome enough to fly one, even with gyro stabilization.

Got a new little device to toy with….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQhZcythD9U

Plan is to get this little camera high up in the air….should be fun :)

Brain I am ordering that RC heli off Amazon. I'm excited! Btw how much does a RC F16 Jet with a turbine engine cost?

with a kerosene turbine engine? or an electric ducted fan?
Kerosene will run you at least 3 grand…probably way more if it's your first. Electric can be cheaper (down to around 150 ready to fly maybe), but jets aren't the best planes to learn on….

The helicopter is a handful, but it's probably one of the easiest 4 channel helis you can get. They are a little cheaper on ebay than amazon.

Here is a new video I just put together, I think it's pretty awesome, can't wait for a plane to slap this thing on….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PnT8nRCozo

WOW looks very nice Brian! Waiting for my heli to come in its this 22 dollars one off amazon. Has good reviews but it will do as my 1st rc.

Got some pictures of the little guy in action :)











Lots of fun to drive! figured out that the servo saver wasn't set up right or was jammed or something, which is why I've been breaking knuckles too often.

been awhile since I posted here it seems, lol. Sorry about that. I've put a few more vids up on youtube.
This is the most recent one, my brother and I bashing around at the skatepark here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R6PKCwT1Ec

i saw you post that on facebook.

Sexy & relevant.

Cool stuff bevardis!

Also, I was semi-recently given an on-road nitro vehicle, had to rebuild the engine to get it running, and now I have to rebuild everything else to get it moving well. (shocks, differentials, tweak the drive shafts a little). Quite fun indeed!

From: Brain
Cool stuff bevardis!

Also, I was semi-recently given an on-road nitro vehicle, had to rebuild the engine to get it running, and now I have to rebuild everything else to get it moving well. (shocks, differentials, tweak the drive shafts a little). Quite fun indeed!

Indeed. I have a nitro boat:
It's the black one with the fire-y cracks.

those are some nice looking boats! I've been watching more and more videos on planes and boats. I'll get one some day eventually I'm sure. A nice brushless (which is electric, like my cars) boat though…hahaha! Maybe tinker with nitro.

From: Brain
those are some nice looking boats! I've been watching more and more videos on planes and boats. I'll get one some day eventually I'm sure. A nice brushless (which is electric, like my cars) boat though…hahaha! Maybe tinker with nitro.

Nitro is definitely more fun, but much more work. Don't get an electric. Go with a gas boat if you won't do nitro.

I disagree with your nitro is more fun statement. But that is one of the fundamental arguments in RC, and I will not bring it to SRL, :)

From: Brain
I disagree with your nitro is more fun statement. But that is one of the fundamental arguments in RC, and I will not bring it to SRL, :)

I ordered this one because I read it was durable which is one of things I want.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004QZR4LI

It's just for a little fun hear and there, nothing to serious.

that's a fine one to start out with Camaro. I've flown those, and they are very stable, with very little trimming needed since the gyro calibrates every time you start it up. Most of the smaller helis for indoors are decently tough. I've seen 2 of those broken, but that doesn't mean anything, the guy that owned them was pretty rough on them.
Just really concentrate on staying away from walls, furniture, and left over hair on the ground. If you are going to hit something immediately kill the throttle, that'll save your gears for as long as possible.

And $20 is a good price for it, they sell those kind at hastings for $40, lol.

From: Brain
that's a fine one to start out with Camaro. I've flown those, and they are very stable, with very little trimming needed since the gyro calibrates every time you start it up. Most of the smaller helis for indoors are decently tough. I've seen 2 of those broken, but that doesn't mean anything, the guy that owned them was pretty rough on them.
Just really concentrate on staying away from walls, furniture, and left over hair on the ground. If you are going to hit something immediately kill the throttle, that'll save your gears for as long as possible.

And $20 is a good price for it, they sell those kind at hastings for $40, lol.

Glad I got an approval from an expert on these things :)

Do these things fly outside at all or does it like suck?

So the one you got in controlled via infrared as opposed to radio waves (cheaper). Bad thing is that the sun also hits us with infrared. So you might not be able to go in the sun with it, as you will lose control right away, and it will go where ever it wants. Happened to one of my little planes, LOL. Didn't make it far though.

At night you could take it out, only if it is dead calm. A slight breeze with blow this little guy around a lot, and anything stronger will cause it to crash.

And it's not just because it is cheap, my bigger double rotor hobby grade heli still can't fly in any wind at all. Its just that these small of things can't take a breeze!

From: Brain
So the one you got in controlled via infrared as opposed to radio waves (cheaper). Bad thing is that the sun also hits us with infrared. So you might not be able to go in the sun with it, as you will lose control right away, and it will go where ever it wants. Happened to one of my little planes, LOL. Didn't make it far though.

At night you could take it out, only if it is dead calm. A slight breeze with blow this little guy around a lot, and anything stronger will cause it to crash.

And it's not just because it is cheap, my bigger double rotor hobby grade heli still can't fly in any wind at all. Its just that these small of things can't take a breeze!

Yeah It came in today and i was flying it around, doesn't work to well with air conditioners running as well and going out side. This thing takes a little getting used because at times it will turn on its on for some reason. (Maybe because of all these crashes ) :)

Maybe ill take a video / some pictures later.

Finally got used to flying and its not too bad. I love flying these things, I need another for when this one is charging.

when you first turn it on make sure to set it down on a flat hard surface right away, the gyro has to calibrate every time. This could cause your yaw drifting (making it want to turn all the time).

also, with the cheap gyro in it, it can drift itself a little after a long flight or rough landing, re-starting the heli should clear it up.

From: Brain
when you first turn it on make sure to set it down on a flat hard surface right away, the gyro has to calibrate every time. This could cause your yaw drifting (making it want to turn all the time).

also, with the cheap gyro in it, it can drift itself a little after a long flight or rough landing, re-starting the heli should clear it up.

Thank you for the tip! :)

To fly any copter in wind, you need active compensation - no?

I suppose so, whether it be automatic (gyroscopic) or manual, but once they get large enough they can take some hits from gusts. That's the main part, with these little ones a gust will knock them flat outta the sky.

Bump, but this is crazy:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/01/traxxas-x0-1-rc-car-can-reach-100-mph-decimate-your-bank-accoun/

The XO-1 is cool. Can't say I would never get one, but I probably wont. It does have some awesome inovations though, such as on the fly data logging display and live castle link tweaking via your iphone/pod!
Can't wait for that to become more mainstream.