Originally Posted by
Semple
Do get into racing if you're prepared to spend $2000 to get going.
Do not bother if you're not prepared to spend $2000 to get going.
Takes half that to be competitive at the club level. I have $1231 into all brand new equipment including two Hitec 7950s and a LiPO rx pack, niether of which are required for racing. Could easily be done for $1000 with a quality setup, new.
Still not sure how people are considering gas harder. Tuning a gas motor isnt any more difficult than tuning/maintaining an electric motor (cutting comms, testing springs and brushes etc). Do not be intimidated by some of these posts; read the manual on tuning the motor and do it step by step; so easy a caveman could do it (I did it for christ sakes
).