World's Fastest RC Car Contest

[JamesCH95]

Nitro engines are what will probably win, they produce more power per unit weight than the electric motors, have all their torque at the top end where it's needed in high-speed applications, and don't need a huge battery pack to power it. If one is looking for RPMs at the wheels... nitro engines can run easily in excess of 20,000rpm producing 5hp or more with around 1lb of weight. Use, say... a 3 spd automatic transmission plus another gear-up since we don't care about acceleration too much, run 2 or more motors mated to an AWD chassis, and the car would be much faster than any electric.

Oh yea, a good aero package would be defintely needed to keep the thing stable.

[Kyle Love]

There use to be a video floating around with a car attached to a sting and it would go around a circular track at WAY over 200mph...I'm not sure if it was the mythbusters one of not.

[Cody Carey]

Originally Posted by Kyle Love

There use to be a video floating around with a car attached to a sting and it would go around a circular track at WAY over 200mph...I'm not sure if it was the mythbusters one of not.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=e1YYfwaiQ...est%20rc%20car
Here it is.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=QADldgFHv...c%20car%20ramp

This ones pretty fast

Also, heres the worlds fastest: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.03/speed.html

P.S. Sanddrag, if you find this to be an off topic reply, then please tell me and I will remove it.