R/C Nitro Car

[Bronk]

Seems to Mutch hastle to use electric cause the battery poops then you havd to go home and charge, Nitro go much faster and also go faster, and the all out feeling of power can't be matched to a electric

Nitros are not faster...not any more. Many chargers will charge from a car battery... actually good chargers prefer DC to AC. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iXrRA3Ldcc&feature=relmfu

[edog1977]

This site gives some tips on engine tuning.

http://www.rchobbies.org/cars_eng-tuning.htm

I agree with Bronk, stick with electric.  With nitro your going to spend a few hours breaking in the engine.  Then you'll spend even more time trying to come to grips with engine tuning.  I love the sound of nitro engines, but electric motors get my vote due to their ease of use.

[Bronk]

http://fastestrc.blogspot.com/2008/03/guinness-world-record-for-fastest-rc.html

not nitro 

[F22RaptorDude]

This site gives some tips on engine tuning.

http://www.rchobbies.org/cars_eng-tuning.htm

so tuning is using different fuel mixtures? I'm deeply confused

[Bronk]

so tuning is using different fuel mixtures? I'm deeply confused

You buy the fuel from 5% to i think 25% nitro. Tuning is to set air/fuel at idle and wot.  It is better to see smoke than not. 

[F22RaptorDude]

You buy the fuel from 5% to i think 25% nitro. Tuning is to set air/fuel at idle and wot.  It is better to see smoke than not. 

so is there a knob to adjust the fuel air/ mixture?

[edog1977]

There are three screws.  High speed needle screw, low speed needle screw, and idle adjustment screw.  You need to adjust all three.

[Bronk]

This site gives some tips on engine tuning.

http://www.rchobbies.org/cars_eng-tuning.htm

I agree with Bronk, stick with electric.  With nitro your going to spend a few hours breaking in the engine.  Then you'll spend even more time trying to come to grips with engine tuning.  I love the sound of nitro engines, but electric motors get my vote due to their ease of use.

I own both and for just playing around the electric is always being used. I only take out the gas when everybody else is... it is just to big a pain. Glow plugs, fuel, starter box, ect...ect... ect..

Electric plug it in and GO!!!


Ohh a big thing on electrics.... reverse!! Not many nitro jobs have it.  It may not sound like a big deal till you wedge it in 100' or more away and you wish you had it.

[F22RaptorDude]

I own both and for just playing around the electric is always being used. I only take out the gas when everybody else is... it is just to big a pain. Glow plugs, fuel, starter box, ect...ect... ect..

Electric plug it in and GO!!!

I'd rather work a ton, I want to hear and feel the power

[Bronk]

I'd rather work a ton, I want to hear and feel the power

K, remember that when you are trying to figure out why the GD thing refuses to run... you have been warned!

[F22RaptorDude]

K, remember that when you are trying to figure out why the GD thing refuses to run... you have been warned!

my grandfather and help me out if I need the help, and the hobbystore too, I just wanted the knownledge to get started once I get it, and plus I'm so sick of the electric noise that motors use

[Bronk]

Your mind is made up then and do not want the opinion from someone who has run both for many years... fine.
I am not saying you will not enjoy a nitro job. I am saying you would enjoy electrics more. My first R/C was a nitro job and after I tried an electric I wished I'd have got the electric first.

Good luck and I wish you well.

[Bronk]

Get ready to change the servos right off the bat. I've yet to see a RTR with servos that were fast enough and enough torque required to satisfy.

[F22RaptorDude]

Your mind is made up then and do not want the opinion from someone who has run both for many years... fine.
I am not saying you will not enjoy a nitro job. I am saying you would enjoy electrics more. My first R/C was a nitro job and after I tried an electric I wished I'd have got the electric first.

Good luck and I wish you well.

Its not that I don't want an opinion, i've had electric before and wasn't fully satisfied, keep in mind that we are two different people thus we think differently. Not implying being mean at all, I want to try gas for now and my mind changes every now and then, I might fully end up with an electric again before my b-day in 2 months. Plus this body comes with an electric version to which is out of stock. http://www.nitrorcx.com/51c809-rallymonsterep-pro-carbonblue.html

To say, I only have 2 problems with electric vs gas, 1. battery has to be recharged and I don't want to buy extra. 2. I like the feel of visible and heard power. Electric cars have the advantage of having all given power directed to the wheels where as with gas alot is lost as heat. But I just want something with the visible power feel, and the fact that I can carry a mobile fuel source would also be very grateful instead of waiting for batteries to charge.
With the Rally car electric the only complaint was battery life, so you can see my main concern. I don't know now cause I got what your saying against what I want, I need to think it through again...

[Bronk]

Its not that I don't want an opinion, i've had electric before and wasn't fully satisfied, keep in mind that we are two different people thus we think differently. Not implying being mean at all, I want to try gas for now and my mind changes every now and then, I might fully end up with an electric again before my b-day in 2 months. Plus this body comes with an electric version to which is out of stock. http://www.nitrorcx.com/51c809-rallymonsterep-pro-carbonblue.html

To say, I only have 2 problems with electric vs gas, 1. battery has to be recharged and I don't want to buy extra. 2. I like the feel of visible and heard power. Electric cars have the advantage of having all given power directed to the wheels where as with gas alot is lost as heat. But I just want something with the visible power feel, and the fact that I can carry a mobile fuel source would also be very grateful instead of waiting for batteries to charge.
With the Rally car electric the only complaint was battery life, so you can see my main concern. I don't know now cause I got what your saying against what I want, I need to think it through again...

What was your electric r/c car?

You do realize they make the electrics pit in races...not because they run out of juice... but because now the new lipo packs last longer than the tanks on the gas jobs.

A good brushless with lipos should run 15-20 min... you will get 10- 15 with gas.