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Here's a short video from today, at the softball field. the body was off because I couldnt find the pins...

http://andyman82.com/files/infield.mpg

its about 20mb

I was pretty lucky it landed right when it flipped in the grass....didnt want to have to run all the way out there.

ok its up now

Downloading at 190-220 kb/sec, nice. :icon14:

Cool! Do you think of getting a hydrofoam or build one soon?

sounds like a bee in a jar

Is that from a kit or did you build it from scratch?

phantasmagoria wrote:sounds like a bee in a jar

Is that from a kit or did you build it from scratch?

Sorta both...I bought it off a pro racer as a rolling chassis. It was assembled and cleaned, then I put an O.S. VZB V-Spec .21 motor in. Steering servo is a JR Racing servo...rated at something like 180oz/in of torque. i don't remember the model off my head, and the throttle is a REAL quick servo. Pretty much 1:1 movement. I use a Futaba 3PJ fm controller. I have always wanted one of those even though it's a bit old.

The buggy is a 1:8 scale Kyosho MP777SP1 Kanai Edition. The guy sold it with a shitload of spare parts including a few diffs and many suspension and chassis parts. Pretty much everything as far as spare parts go.

The buggy i had before was a Thunder Tiger and i put that one together from nothing.

Heh, pretty quick little RC car, looks like fun.

andyman wrote:Here's a short video from today, at the softball field. the body was off because I couldnt find the pins...

http://andyman82.com/files/infield.mpg

its about 20mb

I was pretty lucky it landed right when it flipped in the grass....didnt want to have to run all the way out there.

Quite cool. I wonder if "scale-wise" it beats the Bugatti Veyron

Pretty quick.

Sidenote: There was a great Topgear episode where they attached electronics to real cars to make them controllable via RC. It was also really funny that the presenters got beaten by a little girl in the RC race.

I used to race semi-pro (aka sponsored but I had a real job). Not gas though, electric. Coolest thing I ever saw was at the insane speed runs in Domingus Hills one year when some car flew off the track at about 140 mph when it went into the corner. It hit a joint where these two poles came together at the top of the track and turned into dust. We found batteries all over the parking lot! nearly took some guy's head off too, luckily he ducked in the nick of time.

hax103 wrote:

andyman wrote:Here's a short video from today, at the softball field. the body was off because I couldnt find the pins...

http://andyman82.com/files/infield.mpg

its about 20mb

I was pretty lucky it landed right when it flipped in the grass....didnt want to have to run all the way out there.

Quite cool. I wonder if "scale-wise" it beats the Bugatti Veyron

Pretty quick.

Sidenote: There was a great Topgear episode where they attached electronics to real cars to make them controllable via RC. It was also really funny that the presenters got beaten by a little girl in the RC race.

My freind has a gps thing that we strapped to the top one time and it said 40mph...so 40x8= 320 scale mph PWNED lol

i got my savage up to 38.

It certainly wasn't going 40 in the video, on loose dirt like that the tires just spin and the car tries to keep up. It was find racing around the bases though

That vid just gave me a great idea. World RC Car Rally Championship? Opinions?

Deathshroud wrote:That vid just gave me a great idea. World RC Car Rally Championship? Opinions?

They already have this....rc racing is very big