Electric as fast as nitro?
07-27-2005, 12:47 PM
#31
As you know by looking in my driveway my time has been taken up by more important things.... Slowly getting ready for carpet season this fall though....
07-27-2005, 12:50 PM
#32
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You have time! You just gotta get that kid to nap and not wake up for a while! Then you'll have PLENTY of time..... 
The sooner, the better! This season is gonna be good. Shouldn't take too long to get the XRAY dialed... Hahahahaha, I said the "D" word!
The sooner, the better! This season is gonna be good. Shouldn't take too long to get the XRAY dialed... Hahahahaha, I said the "D" word!
07-27-2005, 01:03 PM
#33
Gotta change my sig as soon as UPS gets here today....
07-27-2005, 01:09 PM
#34
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Yes. 
07-27-2005, 07:05 PM
#35
Originally Posted by Pro4Capece
Is a tethered slot car an RC car? I thought the fastest RC car was the AE 6cell pan car that had like 20 batteries and a 2turn motor.
....Sorry, jez clowning around
07-27-2005, 07:20 PM
#36
Originally Posted by Ghostfit
If they did that with a 2 turn motor, Imagine what speed they'll get with a 0 turn motor ?!
....Sorry, jez clowning around
....Sorry, jez clowning around
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07-27-2005, 09:48 PM
#37
Tech Apprentice
but what about a 1 turn motor im guessing it would work lol
im guessing it would work lol
07-27-2005, 10:03 PM
#38
1 turn=mach 1
07-27-2005, 10:35 PM
#39
Originally Posted by Pro4Capece
1 turn=mach 1
-Josh
07-27-2005, 10:52 PM
#40
i think it's relative to where you run. in a smaller, more technical track, electrics will likely be faster coz of acceleration out of corners. for huge tracks with super long straights, nitro cars would probably have an advantage. an ep car may have the speed record but then again, that wasnt your run-of-the-mill ep car. i mean most of us here probably never even ran (and probably never will) more than 7-cells in our rides let alone 20+!!!
quite honestly though, both ep and gp cars nowadays put out so much power that even if you go with either class, theres plenty enough speed to satisfy any speed junkie's urge.
slap on the most wicked outlaw engine in an 8th scale gas car or strap on 6 cells on a 12th scale ep car with a 6 turn motor and im sure most of us here will have their hands full trying to handle or max out the speed.
quite honestly though, both ep and gp cars nowadays put out so much power that even if you go with either class, theres plenty enough speed to satisfy any speed junkie's urge.
slap on the most wicked outlaw engine in an 8th scale gas car or strap on 6 cells on a 12th scale ep car with a 6 turn motor and im sure most of us here will have their hands full trying to handle or max out the speed.
07-27-2005, 10:58 PM
#41
Tech Master
Don't think so ...Its won't go near mach 1... 
07-28-2005, 04:40 AM
#42
You guys do realise that anything less than about a 5 turn is pretty much just a dead short right??? I truly believe that if you are going all out no rules R/C Drag Racing that currently a nitro car would get the record. If you were to take the motor out of a 1/8th scale R/C Hydroplane and put it into a car you would go BALLISTIC. That being said though i believe that pretty soon Electric will advance enough to reclaim and probably hold the record.
I truly believe that if you are going all out no rules R/C Drag Racing that currently a nitro car would get the record. If you were to take the motor out of a 1/8th scale R/C Hydroplane and put it into a car you would go BALLISTIC. That being said though i believe that pretty soon Electric will advance enough to reclaim and probably hold the record.
07-28-2005, 09:27 AM
#43
Tech Apprentice
ya ur probably right
07-28-2005, 09:37 AM
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But think about it, they clocked a 1/12th scale car at 111mph (give or take 1 or 2 mph) That's 1/12th the size of a real car! Doesn't that mean its going to be 1/12th the speed? Because don't radar guns clock it as a 1/1 scale?
Example. Let's say a 1/12th scale is doing 15mph. When a radar gun clocks it's speed, does it clock it like it would a 1/1 scale car? Or would it read it differently due to it's size.....? I'm not making any sense am I?
Example. Let's say a 1/12th scale is doing 15mph. When a radar gun clocks it's speed, does it clock it like it would a 1/1 scale car? Or would it read it differently due to it's size.....? I'm not making any sense am I?
07-28-2005, 09:45 AM
#45
Tech Apprentice
i believe it doesnt matter the size of the car because the radar gun measures the time it takes from the point its fired till the time it gets back to the gun, if its being pointed straight at it it should measure its actual speed not scale speed...i dont know if that made any sense or if im right but i think thats how it works.