Thread: Any RC car guys here??

I used to be pretty big into carpet oval racing but havent in the last 5 or 6 years. A friend of mine bought a few cheap rc copters to play with last week and they broke within minutes and I think we spent more time trying to rig them back together to fly again lol. Well it sparked my interest a little to check into the car stuff again so I picked up a Car Action magazine to see what was new since I had looked at one in a few years and was shocked at all the new stuff out there! Is anyone on here actively racing and have any advice on the new brushless motors-speed controllers and LiPo batteries and chargers? I have owned a lot of different pan (on road) oval cars since around 1990 and some offroad stuff on and off since the mid 80s. I got big into indoor truck racing with jumps or just oval around 99 and loved it. I used to be pretty serious and got irritated pretty easy with various stuff but anyone who races knows how that goes lol. When I got into the truck racing it was a blast and I had more fun wrecking and toying with buddies that I raced with than I cared about winning and that made it all the more fun but of course I had to go fast doing it hehe. So anyone have anything to share?? I am all ears!

^^^^^ let me know what you want.

I used to race professionally 8-9years ago.... after spending over 6g on just 1 of my cars I kinda rethought out my process of spending. I have trophies from ROAR, but I wasnt able to get sponsorship through Team Losi. so I upped and got rid of most of my cars.

I still have an Original Tmaxx all blue aluminum with the .247 swap, XX-4, XXX-NT, XXX buggy, XXX-T, Tamiya Super Astute, Tamiya Grasshopper2, and a Tamiya Rover mini cooper with a 19T double motor...........

I have a Lite Machines Model 110+ helicopter, and 2 flying wing planes.

ITS a fun hobby!!!!!

^ Oooohh a XX-4. I remember those. That's a fun one!
I used to be into indoor stadium trucks when I was in HS, but I got out of it when the guy running the place had to get out of the business and no one took over. That was a lot of fun!!
Recently, I've done drifting with my 4wd touring car, but the cold weather has dampened that a bit. I'm still old school, though - running brushed mod motors and NiMH batteries, so I can't help much with the LiPo and brushless situation...

Team Associated guy eh?

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YES!

I had a T-Maxx at one time that I sunk around $3500 in over the course of a year or so in upgrades, etc etc. Never again. It was a bad mf'er, but I can't afford such hobbies. Besides, I'd rather spend it on the Grand Prix now.

Originally Posted by Trannyman95

I used to be pretty big into carpet oval racing but havent in the last 5 or 6 years. A friend of mine bought a few cheap rc copters to play with last week and they broke within minutes and I think we spent more time trying to rig them back together to fly again lol. Well it sparked my interest a little to check into the car stuff again so I picked up a Car Action magazine to see what was new since I had looked at one in a few years and was shocked at all the new stuff out there! Is anyone on here actively racing and have any advice on the new brushless motors-speed controllers and LiPo batteries and chargers? I have owned a lot of different pan (on road) oval cars since around 1990 and some offroad stuff on and off since the mid 80s. I got big into indoor truck racing with jumps or just oval around 99 and loved it. I used to be pretty serious and got irritated pretty easy with various stuff but anyone who races knows how that goes lol. When I got into the truck racing it was a blast and I had more fun wrecking and toying with buddies that I raced with than I cared about winning and that made it all the more fun but of course I had to go fast doing it hehe. So anyone have anything to share?? I am all ears!

I used to be pretty hard into the nitro cars...never really got into electric. I had a decked out RC10GT with an O.S. .12 cv-r, a Futaba 3pdf and digital servos that I build to race at that off-road track out on the north side of Fort Wayne, but they were forced to run electric only due to the noise complaints they received from neighbors. My first truck was the HPI nitro Rush, then I graduated to the HPI Nitro MT (4wd stadium truck), then the RC10GT, then the big boy...the Associated MGT. I've sold them all now, but they were good fun.

But yeah, there's still that track out on Goshen just a couple minutes from your house. They do dirt off-road in the summer and carpet on-road in the winter. The website is summitrcraceway.com

Yeah I raced on the indoor oval the first few weeks it opened up back in 02 or 03 time frame and quit racing and sold off everything back then. I always thought gas stuff was pretty sweet but there is a lack of support in the area and I liked to race and indoor carpet tracks was about all there was unless an hour plus road trip was in the plans! In the mid 90s one of the tracks I went to set up huge jumps for stadium racing and I loved that but the trucks were tearing up the carpet too much so they quit doing it when they got new carpet. I have had many 10th and 12th scale pan cars, all electric, and raced a handful of gearbox classes also. My favorite car was an EV10 LSD which was set up specifically for smaller oval tracks and the weight was shifted pretty far over to the left side of the car and the motor was mounted on the left side also to further assist. There was a class a few guys created called a Masters Car class which was pretty much a pan car/gearbox car so you had the light weight and handling of an on road car with use of an offroad car gearbox. I made my own rear pod setup using a buggy gearbox and shortened axles on the rear of the EV10 and it was an awesome setup that was hard to touch and I could run close to the laps that the mod pan cars could. Things seemed to sway one way or another every few years as trends would come and go but now everything seems a lot different than 5 or more years back. Losi just recently came out with a few 1/32 scale rtr trucks so I ordered a handful of them earlier today for me and a few buddies and we are going to try to set up a track in the garage to thrash on hehe we will see how this works. They are claimed to go 10-12 mph which is pretty fast for something that small. And the bonus!!! $80 ready to run and are knockoffs of the 1/10th and 1/18th scale trucks and I was told they are pretty durable and have a host of aftermarket upgrades already. Its real cheap and will be fun to thrash on in the garage with a few other guys on our own time. I have more fun hitting and breaking stuff anymore with these so it hard to go race seriously for me anymore without giving a few nudges and try to keep a straight face lol. Stadium racing and trucks just make my day but those days are pretty much gone around here outside of outdoor racing in the summer.

for racing on carpet.... how bad was all the lint getting caught on the spur gears?

It wasnt much of a problem with the newer Ozite-2 carpets but some of the older ones would want to ball up a little bit around the rear axle or get in the front wheel bearings. I dont recall it ever being an issue on the spur gears but also the spur gears on the pan car also serve as the differential as the diff balls and plates go against the gear. Foam tires were all the expense in carpet racing as you needed new tires every few races and tires have come a long way over the years but they still wear pretty quick. It was also a great way to know if your suspension was dialed in correctly as the front tires would wear badly at an angle if not and that was a great improvement in the early to mid 90s is that most cars gave camber and caster adjustments to the front control arms where the earlier ones were just fixed and mainly set up for road course and not oval so the left front would be destroyed pretty quick.

I used to be big into them. I still would be but don't feel like spending money on new batteries and charger.

I have a Team Associated TC3, Tamiya BMW M3 built it myself, and Tamiya Humvee.

The TC3 has a 27 turn motor in it and thats all that has been done besides new tires and wing taken off after I tore up the old set drifting. The BMW hardly got ran and then the motor I put in it went bad so I haven't ran it in a while. The Humvee broke the front body mounts. I am really hard on my stuff. lol

Before all this I had 25 of the cheap cars from radio shack and those places.


These cars cost more then working on a real car.lol

I want to get back into it with the TC3.

These cars cost more then working on a real car.lol

Yeah thats no lie!!! A very expensive hobby especially if you try to race competitively! I think the most durable model I had was the RC10T3 Team truck that I did stadium and oval racing with. A few of my buddies has them also and we beat the crap out of them, 10-13 turn mod motors and sometimes 7 cell packs to spruce up the carnage lol and they really did hold up well. I think I beat up the body and broke a few rims more than anything on the truck itself really broke. I think the most fun I had playing with the stadium thing was a Clodbuster that I bought. I was at a friends house one day and him and his friend had a few Traxxas rtr trucks that were more/less box stock and were toying with them in the yard and jumping them so I figured I might as well buy in big. I managed to find a brand new unassembled Clodbuster, this was probably late 99 anyways. I drove it a few times outside then went to the track with it just to drive over everyone else lol. NOBODY expects you to take off in reverse with the starting tone beeps and you are in front hahahaha. Those huge soft balloon like tires would climb over 10th scale cars and trucks like nothing! It was a blast. I put two 12 turn mod motors in it and it was pretty quick for its size and weight and also had the 4 wheel steering hooked up as it was a 4x4x4 truck. Later that year I got creative and dug up some old Car Action magazines from the 1990 era-yes I used to keep magazines but they are gone now. I built my own aluminum chassis for it that lenghted it 4 or 6 inches and also raised it up quite a bit higher so it was just nutz to drive. We lived at our apartment at the time in 00 and lived on the 3rd floor and it would drive right up the stares without question. The next year I started getting out of the rc scene and sold off most of my stuff except my pan car and then a few years later it went with the rest of it

Yea, I miss my old T3. I have a T4 now and it seems to be nearly as durable.