M7H

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-OqhU6WF3o

Topspeed was 106.2 kmh
laptimes the same as nitro.

CountryHick

iTrader: (26)

Great video!
Can you post some photos and list more about the car? eg. battery type/size, gearing, speed control settings etc.

M7H

That's the car.
http://sdrv.ms/18M6jc1

Standard 966e, with custom made radioplate and under plate for equipment.


ESC: Tekin RX8
Motor: Redline T8/1900KV
Lipo: Rhino 6S/4000mAh/25-35C (109x34x83mm)
5.30 runtime.
Car weights 150 grams more then a nitro with full fuel tank.

Pinion 21T
Spur 46T
ESC settings:
Drag brake: 1 (no drag brake)
Brake strength: 6
Limiter: 1
Neutral width: default
Cuttoff: 6S
Motor type: BL-FW (Brushless, forwared only with brakes)
Throttle Profile: 3 (Lineair)

M7H

Took off the typical 8th scale body, put on a 8th scale McLaren GT body, went 1 tooth up on the pinion, and this is the result!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6YtRurrv0Q

Runtime 7 minutes.....
Topspeed 114kmh

thunderbt3

iTrader: (14)

Great work! Is this the body you used?

http://www.nitrohouse.com/OFNA-DP8-18-GTP-Body-Clear_p_6806.html

M7H

No.
The body I used I still had from the Serpent Nitro Tour, from 10 years ago.....
A 8th scale car has a wheelbase of 300mm...

This body will fit.
http://www.amainhobbies.com/product_...smo-Body-Clear
http://www.motonica.com/en/products/BODY_8

FF25510

hi all,

in what tyres diameter/size without changing the pinion the car can handle. also does handling difference from fresh tyres to the smallest ?

thanks

Stealth_RT

iTrader: (5)

Awesome looking car and track. But, I have to ask, don't you get tired of running the exact same layout all year, year after year?

DS Motorsport

iTrader: (2)

This weekend we finally had the shakedown of our 1/8 electric car.
I think the amount of power is 90% there, just need a little more topspeed.
Now we can focus on improving the handling, you can see in the video it's nose heavy which causes a lot of understeer.
A new design to cure this has already been made and hopefully we can test this within two weeks.

+ YouTube Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dwDdRAz1gk

Pascal Brun

Hi DS Motorsport,
do you have already revised you car design for more steering?
If you need more topspeed you can change the gearing.

M7H

I run the car with a roll-out of around 45mm, depending the tyre diameter, I change the gearing to get around this 45mm.
The car handles great, until I run out of front tyres.
In my case, because we don't race these cars yet, I use left over tyres from my nitro car.

M7H

No, not really, or actualy really not!
I run the 8th scale nitro nationals also, so I run on different track anyway.

The nice thing about the same layout, is that you really can compare week to week, or even year to year, If you are faster or not.....

Pascal Brun

new track record in Türkheim (Germany) with a Mugen MRX5 TTB prototype

go to:
Platzhirsch.net

fastest time 11.795 electro 1/8 Christoph Pitsch
fastest time nitro 12.063 Eric Dankl

thunderbt3

iTrader: (14)

Any chance you could post more and bigger pictures? The picture on the website is pretty small.

Pascal Brun

Hi David,
I'll update the pictures asap. the rollout was this Sunday...and I've only some older pictures without motor/controller an lipo.
Christoph has to rework some prototype details...I'think after some modification -and with a higher grip level- the track time will go down again (11.49 should be possible)
If the grip level is high you should be 0.4 till 0.5 seconds faster than the nitro 1/8 cars