Wildthing
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Who was the idiot standing on the runway , just kidding, nice job.Did a long over due maiden today, here is some vid
Who was the idiot standing on the runway , just kidding, nice job.Did a long over due maiden today, here is some vid
wow..... and I thought I had a lot of planes lying aroundWell that's five, I have six others running and two that need new noses spliced on so I will have 13 ready for spring when combat wars start. . I like to keep 10 minimum going just incase,
Tip of the icebergwow..... and I thought I had a lot of planes lying around
Man that thing looks like it could tear it up. Well it is tearing it up, but you know what I mean!
Did some RC stuff. Donuts are fun! Had to put my front yard back in my front yard after I was done lol
IT does. I absolutely love the thing. Got some Proline Badlands on the rear instead of kit-supplied and a Kyosho KE-25 drinking down Sidewinder 20% car fuel like it's goin' out of style. Just the perfect amount of power, grip. Handles like an absolute dream really.Man that think looks like it could tear it up. Well it is tearing it up, but you know what I mean!
Did some RC stuff. Donuts are fun! Had to put my front yard back in my front yard after I was done lol
heh, should get some video of that bad boy up here. And they really do sound lovely...like little F1 cars. Idle's a bit high on my Scorp but eh, clutch still disengages.Nothin better sounding then a land based nitro motor with a tuned pipe. I REALLY need to get mine back to drivable. That thing would squat n run in a gravel parking lot like a drift car in a pit after I put the wider aluminum control arms on it and did the sway bars some justice. I have an OFNA Racing 3.2 in it with a 3 speed tranny and its insane how fast that thing gets. I barely have time to get into third before I lose sight of it and it aint small at 1/8th scale.
these are the tires I run. The green rims are stock nitro rc junk but good for short grass. The road tires are Venom racing and they are made from the same compound as the firestone firehawks I believe. GREAT traction on the road or paved lots. then the monster ones I forget who made those but that's what is usually on it for all terrain running when I have no clue where I will be at for the day.
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Heh. I just use the pull starter as extra incentive to keep my engines in tip top condition. They don't fuss at me if they're happy, and if they're unhappy, they fuss like there's no tomorrow.@JennyC6 Oh I went whole hog on mine. I put the gear drive in it so I wasnt out there yanking a tiny rope to start the darn thing in cold weather. I have a motorized starter and bar set up like starting a nitro heli.
Heh. Be awesome if you had that running and could make it to FPVFest 2021. The golfers are gonna HATE ME after that event 'cause the badlands on my Scorpion are going to make an absolute mess of the putting greens. That car goes everywhere sideways and it is just too damn much fun to drift it around all the time not to! I bet with the right tires you could be there tandem drifting right there with me! Almost wonder if those street tires would do...grippy enough to control slippy enough to get some good powerslides going.I bought it as an all up kit from Nitro RC. Broke the motor in properly and it STILL ate a wrist pin. Found out those economy grade ASP motors had a really bad habit of doing that no matter how ya treat em. Got the OFNA (and its a 2.8 not 3.2. the 3.2 is the bhp rating). Then after running it between snow storms out on the street I did a nice run went to turn around and managed to get into the wet grass where it proceeded to lose signal after it went behind the maintenance guys metal shed at the edge of the parking lot and all that was heard was PANG!!! It broke the screws holding the steering knuckle and shattered the upper adjusters on the front end. It hit that shed hard enough to shear off the corner stud and push the lower corner of the shed in a good foot or more in a nice triangle shape.
I decided to go with the aluminum upgrade but they didnt have a truggy set and the monster truck ones happened to for sale and less then replacing one side with the stock nylon / plastic upper and lowers. So the Franken Truck has evolved. Then I found quads after wearing out the nylon bushings and managing to crack two. I got a set of stainless replacements but man removing the nylon ones , filing the holes to insert the steel ones by hand really sucked. I got one side done and its been sitting since I started flying.
FPVFest isn't Flite Fest. IT's a gig RMRC puts on at Edgewater the month after Flite Fest and nitro is allowed there. I went in 2019 and had an absolute blast; even remaidened a very old balsa trainer powered by an OS 40FP that I unsiezed in the saturday gaggle. Made the RMRC guys eyes open up a bit when I started it too; glow driver on, just a wee kiss of the electric finger, and off it went purrling like a sewing machine. Hella fun. And now I've got some FPV stuff running and ready, surface and air alike!Sadly there is no nitro allowed at Flite Fests... air, land, or sea... Other wise it would have gone with me and I would have had more incentive to get it back into running condition to be able to rip with Alex and Austin when they were doing the Drive On thing.
It probably would have but I didn't want to take any chances with an engine I had revived just a few weeks prior from being totally locked up. It kicked pretty much the instant it rolled past TDC.I'd be much more impressed if it started first flip of a human finger (or chicken stick). Had a couple 049's do that but invariably backwards
I've had them spit the prop when double nutted. They're real bad about doing it when they're being run up with the glow driver attached; ignition timing advances way too far and they kick backwards when the throttle opens up.A little FYI when running 4 strokes double lock nut the prop, if they get to running a little lean can backfire and throw the prop, learned the hard way.
Didn't go brushless?