shadow102

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yes the sell headers and pipes for rear exhaust

SG crank i believe

The servo arm for the throttle can be used as either a slide or a rotary carb just have to change what ear the linkage is on.

shadow102

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i recently found a three shoe clutch flywheel in my spare parts bin and was thinking about using it. Does this use the normal ntc3 clutch shoes or another shoe that AE sells?

shadow102

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i recently found a three shoe clutch flywheel in my spare parts bin and was thinking about using it. Does this use the normal ntc3 clutch shoes or another shoe that AE sells?

Baedarlboo

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If you have three shoes, and three springs, it'll work.

BLKNOTCH

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Well this is great as I am now the new owner on the FT NTC3 and have been looking for this page for some time now, there is just so much great information in this post from over all these years since the car was new.

GREAT POST

yodace

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I have been looking for this page for awhile.

yodace

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whats a good throttle servo to get?

Baedarlboo

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don't worry too much about the throttle servo. Steering servo you want a decent servo. Other then that, stock up on parts, like diff/pinion gears, arms, ect ect.
great car to start with, just a little too brittle.

daveflyr

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I started racing my NTC3 for the first time this summer, it had an anolog metal gear steering servo that had 85 oz/in of torque in .15 sec, from what i read on this site its a little slow with the minimum torque needed for steering. the throttle/brake servo, again anolog, had just 49 oz inches of torque in .19 sec, smoked it under braking, at the end of a 170 ft straight into a hairpin! some how i dont think it had the torque necessary to apply the brakes and decelerate the car as it is capable of. since my new spektrum
DX3R transmitter has a selectable latency setting, 5.5 ms for digital and 16 ms for analog, it only made sense, FOR ME, to change to Futaba's high torque, high speed digital servos, an older (out of my T2007) s9451 (120 oz/in .10 sec) for my steering and a new s9452 (128 oz/in .11 sec) for the throttle brake. $80 for the s9452 from my LHS was just in my budget! So Yodace, in answer to you question, it all depends on what demands you are placing on the car and on your budget! HTH

Dave

yodace

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LHS on road track bought road rails this year they seem pretty cool, we have few broken parts...

Baedarlboo

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I've ran a stock servo for throttle and brake duty forever and never had a problem. You just have to make sure to only put enough EPA for what the car needs. You can burn any servo up by setting it up wrong.

Baedarlboo

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Thats cool, i had to move on from the ntc3 due to having too many "consumable" parts...like the Diff/pinion gears, any modern motor with a decent amount of power will destroy the gears like it's butter. The pillow balls had a too small of a diameter on the threads which made them bend easy if you used steel, and snap if you used titanium. The plastic or carbon parts were way too brittle and busted with the slightest rub or hit from another car. And the most frustrating were the sloppy steering and that you are so limited on pipe selection due to the layout. Car also used a very wide chassis with short arms which meant you have to have a lot of meat on the tires and have a decent ride hight, or the outer edge of the chassis scrubbed in turns as the tire wears down. I know i'm pointing out a lot of it's bad traits, but those were big issues when I was racing them. It's a great car, but you have to remember that the TC3 was an electric car first by design, and later they changed a few things here and there so you can strap a nitro motor to it.

yodace

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I researched the other nitro cars the price was the deciding factor. really like the mugen and the xray?

Baedarlboo

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I can't argue with price point...but after the amount of money i spent to get it race worthy, it ended up costing about what a mugen would have been. So I sold all my ntc3 stuff, and bought a used Mugen MTX4R. I've ran the hell out of the car for the past couple months....and i've broke nothing, and wore out nothing. I'm really not trying to put the NTC3 down, as i've had fun racing it, I'm just letting you know my experiences. The great thing about the NTC3 though, you could stop by ANY hobby shop, and find all the parts you need. That is one thing I miss...

yodace

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what mods did u do to make it more race worthy? Did u take the front one way out?