The Off Road R/C Thread.

[Gunner]

So I love my nitro buggies, I have spent a fair bit of dough over the years, from a Tamiya superhornet (my first real r/c car) to my last buggy, my very expensive, excessively modified hyper 7 pbs.

That is sitting in bits, on my r/c desk, after a mishap with a tree, while travelling at 80kph, managed to snap the cnc front arm holders.

So, I have to upgrade, going to go to a crazy hyper 9, would like to go 1/5, but they are far too expensive, especially when you start getting into hydraulic brakes and so forth.

So yeah anyway, anyone else into off road r/c, none of this soft on road crap.

[corknose]

hahaha the baja hpi so tank, i use to race electric stadium trucks but then started to do 1/10 electric and now i race 1/10 m chassis mini's good fun

[Gunner]

So I have got back into this recently, and really enjoying, heres some pics of my latest Hyper PCR with a Sirio CL3, she goes alright.






I find working on and modifying these things rather relaxing, and have started modifying engines with varying results, its good fun.

[corknose]

(i know urs a buggy but..) have you been to the track under the bridge next to the river n barefoot club? or tempe or do u go to moorebank offroad?

[Nic19]

anyone wanna buy my tnx5.2r??

[Gunner]

used to go moorebank, not any more though.

Nic, how much, got pics?

[Nic19]

Probably around $300, havnt used it since christmas. i'm not at home but will get pics up when i get home. i paid $850 for it about 2 years ago and hardly used it cos it sat in the shop waiting for a new rotor start housing for about 10months!!!!

[Gunner]

get me some pics, might be interested, not a fan of trucks, but maybe I can make a crawler from it

[Gunner]

I have been spending alot of time, trying to get into the hobby industry as of late, it's a bitch, though I have secured a part time job doing engine mods. I have since started building and modding my own engines, I feek I am getting quite good at it. So I figure why not show off what I can do.






This is my Stage 4 Sirio CL3 engine, this is my most successful engine to date, one I built for a racer identical to this, has landed on the podium 2 weeks consecutively, quite impressed with the result. Power figures from the short dyno session these engines have seen, see the engine making 3.4hp (2.6 stock) @ 39,000rpm, peak rpm 44,000.




This engine is a Hyper .21 8 port, a cheap engine, but has an insane top end. Unfortunately the bottom end isn't that great, but 90 clicks from a single speed 1/8 scale buggy weighing in at 3.7kg is pretty impressive, Peak rpm is above 45,000 rpm, but my tacho won't read over 45,000 so it could be more.

So if any of you fella's have a nitro rc car, you want a bit more go from, let me know.