Anyone in to RC Cars??
 

I have 8 RC cars. 3 gas. 5 electric. Anyone else into RC?

i have 2 really really old rc cars....

Nataku,

Vintage cars are cool. What kind do you have?

I have an old one you've probably never heard of. It's called the Panda Danny Thompson's Stadium Racer. I also have a Losi XXT thats a few years old.

not unless you count the robot as an RC car ;)

I've got a Traxxas T-Maxx

bad luck
 

i really like rc cars, but i seem to have really bad luck with them.
i got one pretty good one for my birthday one time, but my friend "accidentaly" drove it into his pool. after my mom got me a new one, my dad "accidentaly" ran it over while leaving for work. are there any r c cars that indestructible?

Hehe you could spend lots of money and make a T-Maxx pretty %%%% strong. I have a Duratrax evader looking into buying an gas powered touring car. Also i get to go to watch OFNA nationals here in Miami this year. Woo.

yea, i have around $1,000 in my maxx and i plan on getting a new engine for it soon. i think i'll go with an O.S. .15 CV-RX. that'll be another $200, but my birthday is coming up...

Cool to know so many people are in to RC. I actually enjoy doing some custom things as well. I converted a Traxxas Stampede to 4x4, made a brass tube frame sandrail chassis for my Losi XXT, and I am currently working on a tube chassis for my Tamiya Clodbuster. Tube frames are fun to build and cost only about $30 in materials. My current list of cars is as follows:

Panda Danny Thompson's Stadium Racer
Team Losi XXT
Tamiya Clod Buster
Bolink Digger
Tamiya M-03 Mini Cooper
Traxxas Stampede 4x4
Associated RC10GT RTR
Traxxas Nitro Stampede

I like to have a lot of cars rather than trick out one car.


Ian W.,
The robot is kind of like a big RC car but that's not quite what I meant.

Oreocookie,
I actually drove a toy RC into a pool by accident once. It worked fine but just a little slower after a few days of letting it dry. There is a company called Duratrax www.duratrax.com who offers a 6 month replacement on any broken plastic parts on their gas cars and a one year replacement warranty on their electric truck, the Evader. As Andrew said, you could spend a couple thousand dollars and get all the aluminum and titanium upgrades for the T-Maxx but that's pretty pricey. At $170 the Evader is a great deal. The best way to not get a car broken is to be careful in driving.

Andrew,
OFNA Nationals must be great with those 1/8th buggies flying over massive jumps. Also, how do you like your Evader?

fast frank,
Don't let that T-Maxx eat up too much money. You can literally spend thousands on that truck transforming it so much that no part is left stock.

i accidently drove my t-maxx into my pool one time. the reciever batteries died and i had no control. i had to replace a servo and i rebuilt the engine and it worked fine.

heh, about the robot...

i took it home this summer, in hopes that i could work on it a little (which i still have yet to do). i'm also trying some different stuff with the code. so, i was out on my driveway with the robot one day, and my dad walked out. he took one look at the robot, and said "wow, that's much better than those dinky RC cars you used to have" (i had the cheap electric ones from radio shack). i couldn't help but laugh at that, and all the great looks i get from people driving by my house :p.

The evader is a fun car to have and drive. The servo needs to be upgraded i already lost control of it and broke the servo saver, but the StressTech gauentee made it free to replace. I got the parts in 2 weeks after i sent the broke peice in. THats always a nice thing. Its pretty quick mostly stock (28mph about) and the ESC can go to a 16 turn motor and its not there yet. The shocks work great there is some flex in the frame so sometimes its hard to keep striaght over bumps. It is a good investment for someone like me who doesnt have the time to keep a expensive one running. But now that summer is here i think i may go get a Gas car. Miami has r/c weather always! well except the rain but ya know.

Gee, there must be some sort of force lurking in swimming pools drawing all of our RC cars in.

Ian,
We took our bot home too and pulled my friend's Ford Ranger with it.

Andrew,
I think the ESC in the Evader is rated only for 20 turns which is the motor that comes with it.

check this out, somebody made a battle bot out of traxxas e maxxes. it uses 8 motors and a lot of batteries.

http://www.rcarchive.com/pics/stand.jpg

http://www.rcarchive.com/robot/

I have a Kyosho Inferno MP7.5 1/8 scale it cooks pretty good.

My baby is the Nexus 32 Helicopter, why drive... when you can fly

I think it would have been easier and would have worked better to build a battle bot the conventional way more like our first bots. The E-maxx thing is still cool though.

wow, that's a powerful robot. i haven't tried pulling any cars, yet... ;)

I remember when I used to drop my RC car down the stairs so I didn't have to carry it down. That thing was pretty tough.

Matt,
How hard is it to fly the chopper? I have an electric trainer plane but I haven't flown it in about a year and a half.


Ian,
Our bot uses only 2 drill motors to drive it. The drill gearboxes are on low speed and the gearing from after the gearbox is 10/64. We have 10 inch diameter 3 inch wide wheels. We could pull more but our tires were slipping. The robot weighs exactly 130.0 lbs.

jon,
I quite often drop my cars on to the ground and drive them down the stairs. The suspension takes care of it all. However, I don't think I would drop it down the stairs.

I've got a really old car.... a Kyosho Pro-x... it started out as a buggy but I enlarged the front forks and replaced the 3" shocks with 4" ones. Kinda fun having the extra ground clearance.

I also fly planes. Been flying for a little over a year now, and I think this is my 4th or 5th plane. I slightly overpower my current plane with a Supertiger .51 ... nice engine :D I also have a small electric pylon racer... runs off a speed 400 motor and about 7 cells. No where as near as fast as my glow engine, but still kinda fun.

I just can't get up very early anymore to make it to the flying field before it gets crowded. When I did fly, it was pretty fun though.

RC cars?!
Why don't you get a life, and spend all your time on the computer, like me?

:P

Tekin Rebel Speed control
 

In 99 and 98 FIRST used Tekin Rebel speed controllers. Tekin has gone out of business, and I wonder if anyone with FIRST or RC car experience remebers how to set them up. I think you had to cut a wire for them to work with the old style FIRST contollers. For RC you had to do somesort of setup by holding the setup and moving the stick back and forth. I would love to know what this process was.

sorry, dr.bot, but i've only had nitro r/c's that don't require speed controllers.

FotoPlasma,
RC is a great hobby just to let you know.

Dr.Bot,
I own many speed controls but they are all made by Novak. I've heard that those Tekin Rebels were pretty good for their price though. I can tell you how to set up the Novak ones if you like. My advise is to contact an RC magazine such as RC Car Action www.rccaraction.com or RC Car www.rc-car.com and they could probably tell you how to do it. Also, you might try searching on eBay for a Tekin Rebel and ask the seller if he can send you a photocopy of the manual if he has it or tell you how to set it up. There are also many RC forums that you could try. Here are some of the sites where they can be found.

www.traxxas.com
www.hpiracing.com
www.rcmt.net

I hope you can find what your looking for in one of these places. Good luck!!
:)

Thanks guys
 

FIRSTees are awsome. I got the info I needed from a BBS. For those of you interested you press and hold the setup button until it starts blinking then you but the joystick full forward, full back and into neutral. Not quit sure how you make the reverse delay work but it appears off now.

This will be a real pain if I have to do it each time I start the darn thing!

If I remember right, you didn't have to adjust them everytime you started them up. Once you set it, that was pretty much it. As long as you don't start playing with the trim controls on the joystick, it should be ok.

Just curious on this, but has anyone ever tried using one of the innovation first speed controls in a car? Just wondering if it works...

Re: Tekin Rebel Speed control
 

I do remember that the middle wire needed to be cut to work properly with the Tekin controllers(something about the FIRST controller sending voltage out the middle wire that the Tekins didn't like...) Other than that I can't really help...

Any speed controls I've ever seen are set it and forget it unless you switch to using a different control system. However, someone selling a Tekin Rebel on eBay was saying it worked fine but they had to reset it before every run. Wierd huh?

I'd like to try using those Innovation FIRST Victor speed controls in an RC Car but my team would be afraid of something happening to it and I don't have $105 to buy one. They could probaly handle some hot motors but they don't have a brake function.

http://www.team-orion.ch

Anyone playing the micro R/C game its alot of fun. they are going to have a race for money just click on game to play. you have to make a name on it and stuff. Its fun

[EDIT] I was looking through my bookmarks and i found a site full of R/C videos they are awesome. http://www.wildhobbies.com/movies.asp
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Re: Anyone in to RC Cars??
 

Re: Anyone in to RC Cars??
 

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/img...69482afb_l.jpg

Thats one of fillies in the stable.

My only other car worth driving at the moment is an OFNA Violator. Sucker is fast and loud, which cuts down a lot of how much I drive it. The college has some strict rules about driving nitro cars on campus after some incidents involving runaway cars impacting with the campus security's golf cart. That and the noise is counter productive to classes in session. So it's a weekend only event, and I'm usually busy sleeping. I do find many uses for the fuel though. Good for melting asphalt.

I wish I could get some with out all the caster oil in it. T'would make a nice fuel adative for track days with the Miata.

I would like to get all my R/C gear back together. I have a bunch of chassis that are only on the shelf for want of a little machine work to replace worn out and broken plastic bits. Now that I've got plenty of time to work in the shop and access to all the old stuff my team has collected, things could go well. Might even get the R/C club to fund some projects I've been wanting to do.

But that would take more time and effort then I've got. Maybe next year.

-Andy A.

Re: Anyone in to RC Cars??
 

I bought the a Tamiya skyline first. And i upgraded the crap out of it. It is 4 wheel drive and can go about 35-37 miles per hour. It got harder and harder to tell how fast it was going because we had to drive my buddies car next to the R/C and I would sit in the passenger seat trying not to get it run over.
http://www2.omnimodels.com/cgi-bin/w...&I=TAMC0314&P=

My second R/C i just got last year. It is pretty sweet, and came with all graphite parts and a one year free replacement plan. Which was awesome becuase I liked to run it in to telephone/basketball/fence poles. <-- not a good idea!
http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...?&I=LXFYW7&P=7

Re: Anyone in to RC Cars??
 

bigboi146, that is a nice car. Andy, thats funny, "impacting with the campus security golf carts" lol I'm guessing that it was just annoying to the security guy, if your car was going fast enough to do any damage to a golf cart, it would be destroyed on impact.
I'm pretty broke most of the time, so all I have are a few pre-builts :( . The best ones I have are a 1:14th scale Nikko hummer, and a 1:10th ferrari enzo, both red. They both have two speeds, and the enzo has working lights :D (I need to replace the LEDs in the headlights though, anyone know where I can pick up a couple of super bright white LEDs that will work with a 9.6V battery?). The hummer can hit 12mph, and I think the enzo will do 14 (I know, I know, big whoop :rolleyes: ).

Re: Anyone in to RC Cars??
 

i have one that i built long time ago, cant even remember the name,.

And a proud owner of a traxxas E-Maxx

Re: Anyone in to RC Cars??
 

Here is my baby.



The RC10TC4 with the Factory Team Conversion Kit. I've been dying to drive it since I got the new chassis. Running spec, I've hit around 30-40 mph. I had to order a new body since my old body wouldn't fit the new chassis...strangely.

Re: Anyone in to RC Cars??
 

dare i say it?
*cough*radioshack*cough :D

That is where I got mine when I put them on my touring car.

Re: Anyone in to RC Cars??
 

Im in southern California this morning, making sure our video eyewear works correctly for the initial flights with these uhmmmm........... RC toys.

Yes, those are cameras in the car and the nose of the plane.

Thats not me in the photo - its the test pilot for the plane.

Re: Anyone in to RC Cars??
 

I have:

Traxxas Revo
HotBodies Minizilla
Traxxas 4-tec dragster
some planes and a heli :D

Revo has mach 26 and some other cool stuff on it
Minizilla is all blinged out and runs on brushless...so does the dragster....these just stand on my shelf and i drive them like once a month lol....to busy with school work etc...