Originally posted by KawadaKid
so u got his old one?

You are correct sir. It's amazingly easy to get oneself into debt these days. But with these interest rates, why not!

But more importantly, WHEN DO I GET TO RUN STADIUM!

...and I still haven't got my pony, or Hooters Girl yet:mad:

later.......

Thanx Ken, that was very helpfull!:roll:

AGAIN :eek: WILL SOMEONE GET BILL A FREAKIN PONY!!!!!!! TO RIDE thank you

Get him a pony T-shirt, it will last longer!

Originally posted by John Warner
You could always put some jackstands under it and let it run in the garage for an hour or two!!

You could have mentioned something about keeping the door op...........sleepy now......

cheers,

Mike

lol!

I had fun. Anyone else?

Yep, me to!

NEXT WEEKEND WILL BE THE

LAST NIGHT RACE THIS SEASON!!!!


_________:eek: _________:wave: _________:eek: _________:wave: _________:eek:_________

The date will be..... September the 7th.!!

I'm BAAAAAAAACK! Gonna try to make it out for the races next week Johnny Boy. May need to catch a ride. Don't know yet. Also, any idea when I'd be able to bring the you know what back out to your place? Gotta figure out what went up in smoke and find the parts to fix it.:devil:

How many races after the night race john? (as in weekends)

john, did you get the mail I sent?

Hey tony,
If ur running Toms old engine, would u be interested in selling ur RB? Let me know.

Originally posted by mike vasilion
john, did you get the mail I sent? Yep, and I talked to Jeff as well. I assume he called you??

Hello everyone whats going on. I,m in the detroit area and need a place to practice for the triple crown race on october 4th. Is there any indoor carpet tracks running or open for practice in you area?


Thanks Dave:wave:

Originally posted by John Warner
Yep, and I talked to Jeff as well. I assume he called you??
yeah, he called me. He's in such a hurry to get there.

What do I need to run after "RTR"?

If I get a RTR car. That is car w/ radio. What else do I need?

Fuel, Starter, After run oil, any thing else?

Whats this about batteries on Nitro cars?!@?! I thought you avoid those things!

What do you suggest for starter? fuel?

(Im trying to price out this whole thing)

Whats you favorite On-line store?

Originally posted by Dave Johnson
Hello everyone whats going on. I,m in the detroit area and need a place to practice for the triple crown race on october 4th. Is there any indoor carpet tracks running or open for practice in you area?


Thanks Dave:wave: Dave.... We're shooting for early to mid October to open. Guess alot depends on the weather.

John

The L.E. Tamiya TB-01 EVO-II is alive!!

One word best describes it............ Sweeeeeeeeet!

Geez...

This place was dead all weekend
long, and look at it now!!

Yikes:eek:

Yeah?

answer my topic then:rolleyes:

is changeing fuel a big deal?

Originally posted by PinWheel
Yeah?

answer my topic then:rolleyes:

is changeing fuel a big deal? Not really, or are you asking about changing to running a nitro car vs electric?? If that's the case, then I'd say yes it could become quite a big deal. There's a lot more maintinance and upkeep to nitro then there is with electric. It's dirtier, needs constant carb. adjustments, they break belts, bend driveshafts, plus.. nitro cars go through tires every other weekend or two, and the list goes on.....

Bottom line.. Stay with battery powered cars. Besides,
we're about to go indoors and nitro cars don't race indoors!

EXACTLY :thumbsup: besides 12th scale is mandatory, and there is not any nitro 12th scale cars anymore.

Although john I don't know if the statement of there is more maintenance to nitro is true. I think that the maintenance is different maybe a little more involved but I don't know if it is more. If you look at all that it takes to get and stay competitive in electric racing, conditioning batteries, cutting comms on motors changing brushes, buying new batteries everytime trinity decides that they need to make some more money (ie 3300's) It is not really easy to stay competitve in electric racing either. Although I believe that anybody who has never RACED an r/c car before should start out racing in electric. It is one thing to drive an r/c car and another entirely different to race one.

On another note for fear of being a hypocrite I have to leave steven alone about the nitro stuff for awhile. I have recently aquired a nitro race truck from somebody after the hesperia night race last saturday and I am planning on racing that for the next couple of weekends okay steven nitro is kind of fun.
THERE I said it. :p

No Ken dont go to the DARK SIDE I have been there and its bad. Just run Mod its just as fast.

Hi,

Can someone send me Dave Walton's email to rpchang@pobox.com? I have lost it and I can't remember what his user ID is on here.

Thanks!
-Rich

Originally posted by nitrorod
No Ken dont go to the DARK SIDE I have been there and its bad. Just run Mod its just as fast.

I do have to agree with Ken. Mod just can't throw a rooster tail quite a nitro can. Just one little reason why I do not own one.

NO STINKIN' PLACE ANYWHERE NEAR HEAR TO RACE!

So, I've got a month or so to get my T3 cleaned up and my 1/12th scaler going. No problem. Hopefully.

well, i asked GS for a banner, and boy did they send me a BANNER! This thing is huge! You will all get to stare in amazment at this behemoth this weekend. Im only racing the night race thow. Cya Later!

Steven I am NOT going to Chicago this weekend, sorry call if you have any questions.

I know the indoor season is comming up, but I will just have to gut it out. I also know that Nitro is "more" work. (thats partly why I want to do it)

why does everyone say run electric? If I should then why doesnt everyone else? (Not to sound mad here or anything just wondering)


Nitro has sights, smells, sound, and high matenece (sp?). That sounds the most fun to me!!

Sorry j-glo you can call me darth vader because I am all over the darkside right now. Not that I will ever quit electric racing but I am definitely going to run nitro truck at a few places because it is pretty fun. I guess for nitro truck I was kind of waiting for a decent group of racers to pop up. and between Hesperia and raw roots who are starting to get the same guys going to both tracks now there are 8 to 10 decent nitro guys and 2 or 3 that are getting pretty good and it looks like it will be pretty fun.

Originally posted by PinWheel
I know the indoor season is comming up, but I will just have to gut it out. I also know that Nitro is "more" work. (thats partly why I want to do it)
why does everyone say run electric? If I should then why doesnt everyone else? (Not to sound mad here or anything just wondering)
Nitro has sights, smells, sound, and high matenece (sp?). That sounds the most fun to me!!

OK, here's the scoop. I think I was where your at now. When I got started into rc I had to have a nitro car, so thats what I bought. It was fun, It was cool and it was a lot of work, just what I wanted. One of the problems that I soon learned was, I bought it near the end of the season just as your thinking of doing now. When the nitro season ended everyone else went indoors to race and I sat around building up what I needed to race indoor. So by the time I had everything that I needed to race indoor it was time to race out doors.
For some people that would be no big deal because they race electric year around. Not me, I love nitro. I think that if I had it to do all over again, I would have started off with electric so that I could have developed my driving skills better to drive nitro.

So Very true Mr. Fred. Ide have to agree. Im all about nitro, but by the time you get all ur stuff ready, there will only be a handfull of races left this year. So, if u want to race, buy an electric car, race with us this winter and by the time its summer again you will have alot more track experience and thus be that much farther ahead when u get ur nitro vehicle (GET A GS VISION!!!)

o.k. steven lets just say hypothetically I was going to run nitro on road next year, sell me on the gs why should I get that and not the mugen?

DOES $$$$ GROW ON TREES!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

By the time I spend the $$$ on a electric (batts, charger, car....etc etc etc) I wont have any money left for Nitro. Then when summer comes I will be bummin'! I wont even be able to get the Nitro for a while. (probably not this racing season) so over the winter I will build and paint it. (Ok that took one day...) then I will bite on oil filled shocks untill the snow melts! And then I will come and BEAT ALL of you guys on the track....maybe...ok...well not really....how about this: I will crash into at least 3 of you at once?:roll:

THIS IS SET IN STONE! DONT MAKE ME CHANGE MY MIND. ITS HARD ENOUGH AS IT IS!!!

Sell me on the GS too. Where can I find more on-line? (Mom wont drive me 45mins to riders so I can ask about some "dumb" R/C car....)

Got to get that drivers licence!

From SteveP on RCCA:

Maybe we should change it to "KawadaKid gets banned for lack of brain cell activity"... kinda catchty dontcha think?!...

LOL:lol:

Originally posted by PinWheel
THIS IS SET IN STONE! DONT MAKE ME CHANGE MY MIND. ITS HARD ENOUGH AS IT IS!!!

Just a couple of questions. What was the last R/C car that you had? Where was the last place that you raced?

Nitro is fine and all, but if you're just starting out, Nitro isn't a good idea. I've seen too many people get into Nitro that have no idea of what they're doing. It has way more power than electric and is way to easy to skrew up. Just ask NitroMagnatic. One little twist of a set screw too far and, poof! Hello $70 piston and sleeve!

You may be best advised to get something like a Tamiya TB01 (or whatever the new chassis is), and some inexpensive equipment to go with it. It gets quite expensive to try to run before you can crawl.

Just my $0.02.

Originally posted by nitrorod
From SteveP on RCCA:

Maybe we should change it to "KawadaKid gets banned for lack of brain cell activity"... kinda catchty dontcha think?!...

LOL:lol:

And this would be in reference to what? Seems ole Stevie can't get a break anywhere....

Oh yeah, good ol' Steve Pond!! And poor ol' Steven!!

Dang.

you guys make this hard you know?

Yes I am about as New Bie as they come. I have 2 r/c's a Tamiya Bear Hawk and a tamiya lunch box. In 1990 (or when ever they came out) there were pretty good cars but now...well there 12 years old. I have taken every screw out of both of them and played around with switching parts and stuff. (That by no means states that I am ready for a nitro, I know that:rolleyes: )

"Just ask NitroMagnatic. One little twist of a set screw too far and, poof! Hello $70 piston and sleeve! "

You say that the mistakes in Nitro are MORE expensive. How often does something like that happen? Why did that happen was it a mistake or was the guy not know what he was doing?

Dont you think if you read and post questions and learn you can avoid those problems?


GRRRRR..... has anyones else ever had this much trouble deciding what to get?!?!

Woooord that was funny!

Well Ken,
The GS Vision Offers more to the racer than the mugen in several ways. First off it comes with a Centax Style racing clutch rite out of the box along with a Graphite upper deck (mugen being plastic), aluminum shocks, CVD's (updated), aluminum wheel hubs, heat sink engine mounts, belt tensioner and a much smoother drive train than the mugen. Trust me, i ran a mugen for a year or so. The Vision also comes with very cool stratus body!

Go GS, is there any other way?

Ok, i did my part. Have fun!

well we will see like I said that was hypothetical I am alot more intrigued by nitro off-raod than nitro on-road but we will see. I still think that for the money the gs storm is the 8th scale buggy to have. but nobody runs those around here. The class of nitro that is growning is the stadium trucks there are probably about 8 to 10 decent nitro truck guys in this area that are getting better everytime I see them. So as far as nitro goes that is all the nitro I am gonna do for now. As far as your decision pinwheel I would go electric simply because it is almost time to go indoors and you will have alot of time to get your cash in a row for a nitro car for next summer get some wheel time on carpet this winter and it will definitely prepare you for nitro next summer.:thumbsup:

Very good point Ken. You racing out at Raw Roots this weekend? If so let me know what time it starts as I want to get some dirt on my new TC3 Buggy.

Racers......

Don't forget, this weekend is the last of our night races until NEXT year!

Another thing (are you guys sick of this yet?)

How will running electric first help my prevent blowing a nitro motor?

(Realy guys Im not trying to sound Cocky I just have these questions....you know?)

It'll give you more exposure to actually racing in competition, and you'll make new friends that will be more than willing to help you out and show you the way when it comes time for nitro season next spring.




<-----<<<Kewl

Fred..... You've GOT MAIL!!

Going for the big numbers tonight. Up and down and all arround the threads.

The black (-) cable on my 7.2V 1500mAH sport Racing Jet-Pak batterie broke. Can I just sodder it back together? It broke where the wire is soddered onto the batteries. Also what kind of Lube should I use on plastic gears?

PS whats the difference between ni-cad and ni-mh batteries again?

Commin right back to ya John.