Is it time again for 1/10th scale pan cars?
07-24-2007, 07:46 PM
#241
I agree 100%- If someone wants to race they have to know you have to spend the cash, like in any sport or hobby. Running a pan car vs a Touring car is not cheap! You need a good radio, receiver, ESC, motor and batteries, and basic tools. That's what costs the most, and will be the same for 1/18, pan cars, 1/8, etc. If you're cheap or broke and cant afford the hobby, you simply cant participate...save money and then get what you need. But dont try and limit everyone else!
For example- you can run a RTR touring car class...XXX-S, TC4, etc. for $400you can have a car with motor, esc, receiver, radio, body, tires, etc. Imagine the radio glitching, the poor set-up and performance of the cars, and money wasted on those sorry non-matched packs. Its a joke...that nice for kids who want to bash and hit each other in a parking lot...but not for
organized club racing.
For example- you can run a RTR touring car class...XXX-S, TC4, etc. for $400you can have a car with motor, esc, receiver, radio, body, tires, etc. Imagine the radio glitching, the poor set-up and performance of the cars, and money wasted on those sorry non-matched packs. Its a joke...that nice for kids who want to bash and hit each other in a parking lot...but not for
organized club racing.
that's not exactly what i'm trying to say.. you can go gung-ho in pan cars and i just don't think the gains warrant it.. i buy almost entirely used equipment cause that's what i can afford, and i bet i have less than $500 in my pan car including top-o-the-line brushless system that will never require another dime.. if i knock the entire front end off i can buy a new one complete for $35 and have spares.. my x-ray when i ran it had knuckles that were $7 each and swaybars that cost $22..for goodnes sakes.. we're not talking a novice class here (atlest i'm not) i'm hoping for a reasonably priced second class..
07-24-2007, 10:40 PM
#242
Tech Apprentice
Hi,
If the car produce by manufacturer, I should be the first person in booking list.
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Thats the same complete idea I have about pan cars should be.
independent suspension
all wheel brake
rear traction
ELECTRIC POWERED
235 mm
AGAIN...... just a thought.
07-25-2007, 09:56 AM
#244
07-25-2007, 10:13 AM
#245
All of you guys are trying to reinvent the wheel, leave the 1/10 pan car design alone! Everyone wants to gofaster but there is a cost. Keep the basic design, but every manufacture can add there own flair. I have not heared one guy say I have the new darkside or PRC car and have raced it! I just ordered a darkside and I am going to put mines on the track while all you armchair racers are talking about making something simple like a 1/10 pan car into touring car
I think a stock motor and 4 cell will be just fine, and I have seen guys jam lipos and brushless motors into a vintage 10L and it looked like crap! Your not solving the problem by making the car faster and adding front shocks and making things TC like.
I raced 1/10 pan in the 90's and the sucky motors and batterys made these cars blistic. And you guys want to go faster, 95% of you guys could not handle one of these cars with a mild mod motor and a 4 cell pack.
The only way we are going to bring this class back is to keep it simple and cheap.
I think a stock motor and 4 cell will be just fine, and I have seen guys jam lipos and brushless motors into a vintage 10L and it looked like crap! Your not solving the problem by making the car faster and adding front shocks and making things TC like.
I raced 1/10 pan in the 90's and the sucky motors and batterys made these cars blistic. And you guys want to go faster, 95% of you guys could not handle one of these cars with a mild mod motor and a 4 cell pack.
The only way we are going to bring this class back is to keep it simple and cheap.
07-25-2007, 01:43 PM
#246
I did search just for BMW TOJ and this didn´t work at least I didn´t find pictures. Our TOJ pan body maybe is closer to the real racecar than on any other car I have seen before. It´s just weird there is a Ford sticker on that TOJ and that green rearview mirror sucks also. 
07-25-2007, 02:00 PM
#247
All of you guys are trying to reinvent the wheel, leave the 1/10 pan car design alone! Everyone wants to gofaster but there is a cost. Keep the basic design, but every manufacture can add there own flair. I have not heared one guy say I have the new darkside or PRC car and have raced it! I just ordered a darkside and I am going to put mines on the track while all you armchair racers are talking about making something simple like a 1/10 pan car into touring car
I think a stock motor and 4 cell will be just fine, and I have seen guys jam lipos and brushless motors into a vintage 10L and it looked like crap! Your not solving the problem by making the car faster and adding front shocks and making things TC like.
I raced 1/10 pan in the 90's and the sucky motors and batterys made these cars blistic. And you guys want to go faster, 95% of you guys could not handle one of these cars with a mild mod motor and a 4 cell pack.
The only way we are going to bring this class back is to keep it simple and cheap.
I think a stock motor and 4 cell will be just fine, and I have seen guys jam lipos and brushless motors into a vintage 10L and it looked like crap! Your not solving the problem by making the car faster and adding front shocks and making things TC like.
I raced 1/10 pan in the 90's and the sucky motors and batterys made these cars blistic. And you guys want to go faster, 95% of you guys could not handle one of these cars with a mild mod motor and a 4 cell pack.
The only way we are going to bring this class back is to keep it simple and cheap.
07-25-2007, 02:27 PM
#249
cool looking but that thing has got to be way overweight!
07-25-2007, 02:28 PM
#250
I agree with TallyRC, you could always have a claiming rule or something like that. But 4 cell 19T NO WAY. Yhe whole point of re-inventing the class would be to go faster, than we did before.
Limit the brushless motors, but run the LiPo's the whole idea from my point of view, is to update the old class.
At our track, where we race 8th sc, a 6 cell mod pan car will run laps just less than the 8th's. that's the point of bringing them back.
Limit the brushless motors, but run the LiPo's the whole idea from my point of view, is to update the old class.
At our track, where we race 8th sc, a 6 cell mod pan car will run laps just less than the 8th's. that's the point of bringing them back.
07-25-2007, 02:29 PM
#251
Here's a recent video of a pan car at indoor track being tested with mamba max a nd 700 motor w/ 3s lipo...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANaIqQxKqqU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANaIqQxKqqU
07-25-2007, 02:54 PM
#252
07-25-2007, 03:22 PM
#253
Tech Adept
Sometimes on EBay I see things I like and put a low bid in and see if I get it. This one I did not think I would win but it is another Bolink. If anything I will have some spares now.
07-25-2007, 06:33 PM
#254
Tech Adept
Been digging around in the basement and found that I had an unpainted Bolink Pro Stock 98 Comaro body. Been searching via google trying to find pictures people may have done of this car for ideas. Was it not that popular?
I am going to mount this for now on the first post of the car pictires I made and the elcomino on the one I posted today. Love painting bodies. Sometimes they do not come out how I like but still fun.
I have some bodies I painted before on my website.
http://studysession.com
I am going to mount this for now on the first post of the car pictires I made and the elcomino on the one I posted today. Love painting bodies. Sometimes they do not come out how I like but still fun.
I have some bodies I painted before on my website.
http://studysession.com
