HPI R40 Nitro Car Forum
09-09-2006, 09:55 PM
With a solid front axle you get the same pull out of a corner as a one way, you loose some initial turn in. It doesn't want to turn in at high speeds, but you do keep front brakes, so you can drive really deep into a corner before slamming on the brakes.
09-09-2006, 10:00 PM
On another subject, that 2005 hara kit I got on Ebay for $259 turned out to be a standard kit. I have contacted the seller and he is going to refund my money. I had a feeling that I should have asked him before I hit the bid button, but the description had ALL of the right parts listed. I'm just posting here because he has another kit listed the same way right now with a buy it now price of 259. I don't want anybody else getting mislead. He claims that he pays somebody else to list his items and that they got the information wrong. I'm going to have to wait and see if I actually get anything back on this. Keeping my fingers crossed.
09-09-2006, 11:21 PM
Tech Rookie
hey guys
was racing my r40 the other day
and noticed a small amount of white smoke comming out of the hs in my engine ???
what could it be and where excatly is it comming from ??
btw is it suppose to do taht ??
thanks
was racing my r40 the other day
and noticed a small amount of white smoke comming out of the hs in my engine ???
what could it be and where excatly is it comming from ??
btw is it suppose to do taht ??
thanks
09-10-2006, 04:34 AM
Originally Posted by Rapid Roy
On another subject, that 2005 hara kit I got on Ebay for $259 turned out to be a standard kit. I have contacted the seller and he is going to refund my money. I had a feeling that I should have asked him before I hit the bid button, but the description had ALL of the right parts listed. I'm just posting here because he has another kit listed the same way right now with a buy it now price of 259. I don't want anybody else getting mislead. He claims that he pays somebody else to list his items and that they got the information wrong. I'm going to have to wait and see if I actually get anything back on this. Keeping my fingers crossed.
I know a lot of guys who do this on ebay. Always saying Hara....I got lucky and the two I bid for were hara. Got one for 300 and 350. So now I have 3 of them.The main thing that let me know they were hara kits though is they had the box pictured that was taken from there own camera, another had halfway assembled the kit and from that I could clearly see the hara chassis and parts.
Good luck. Either way you wont end up paying for it. You can call paypal and just tell them it was a grossly incorrect dexcription and they will refund you. What will end up happening is you just need to send it back to him with confirmation from usps. This will allow them to see that and they will go ahead and refund you.
Id wait on him a few days though to see if he does a refund cause that will be a tad easier and faster. But if it even came down to it someone from paypal would come out and confirm its a different kit...etc etc. So your pretty much covered.
Last edited by Artificial-I; 09-10-2006 at 11:43 AM.
09-10-2006, 05:31 PM
Tech Regular
iTrader: (5)
Hey, I had a quick question. I run an R40 as well, and have problems with the pivotball retainers breaking everytime I run the car ( No I am not a massive hack lol, the track is kinda bad on just THAT part). I saw fast harry's pics of his car and was wondering where he got those aluminum steering hub/pivotball retainers for the front. Any help is appreciated!
09-11-2006, 12:54 PM
Got an interesting story to tell.
Yesterday was my first day that I took part in an official race. I've been to our local track quite often to practice. Two of our top 3 drivers at national level, are members at our track. So it was tough to make a decision to take part in a race meeting with them. (Don’t want to be a moving chicane on the track.
)
So, Yesterday I arrived at the track nice and early, set up my pit area. Then I had a chat with a couple of the guys to try and get the nerves down. I was grouped with the slower guys at the track. So that made me feel a little bit more relaxed.
About 15 minutes before the start of our heat, I thought, well let me just go through my car and make sure everything works fine. Checked the whole car and every thing seemed fine. Then I connected my batteries and switched on my Transmitter and receiver, and then .....................
Then the steering just turned to the left and got stuck there. I had a spare servo and connected it to the receiver and it worked fine. So I had about 10 minutes to replace the steering servo. Got it done with about 3 min to go.
Standing on the drivers stand, I could see my hands shaking. I started from 4th position, and going into the second turn, one of the guys hit me from behind and my car spun out. Guess what position I was in then.... Yes I was last. The only thing that came out of my mouth was... Ahh F...CK. Then I was about half the length of the back straight behind the second last lap.
It took me about 2 laps to catch up to him. Then things started to happen for me. Guys in front of me started making mistakes. They were spinning out. Braking to late, hitting each other. All of a sudden I was running 3rd.
I finish the first heat in 3rd position after starting 4th, being taken out, to last position and then fighting my way back to third. (Which included at least two big role overs.) My rear tyres had chunks ripped out of it. I had to replace them for the next heat.
I then started the second heat in 3rd position. On the second lap I pasted the guy in second place on the back straight. I couldn't believe that my OS TZ Zeppin mod motor as actually faster than his JP FX 3M motor. (YES, YES, YES I know there could be various reasons for his car to look slow. Tuning/Gearing/...).
The guy in first place was faster than me and started to pull a gap on me.
On about lap 8, he had an engine problem and had to retire. Guess where I was.
Yes, I was leading the race. It was very difficult to concentrate. I just said to myself..."Just stay on the road, don’t do any stupid things".... and I didn’t.
So when I got of the driver stand, I was smiling for about 5 minutes. It’s a good thing that I had a pair of ears on my head; otherwise my smile would have been all the way around my head. Allot of the guys congratulated me on this as I've spent allot of time practicing with them, but would never enter on a race day.
Still being very in-experienced in racing, I wasn’t paying much attention to my car after this. What could go wrong now? When the time arrived for the third heat I switched on me transmitter and receiver, they battery on the car just seemed dead. So the race started with out me. I replaced the battery, and could only join with about 2 minutes left. I finished last. I don’t know why this happened. Normally my batteries lasted a whole day of practice. BUT, I did learn my lesson.
Soon after all the heats were done, the rankings for the final were posted on the notice board. I did not seem my name in the group that I run in. I was thinking "did I do something wrong, did the computer throw my name out, or was I disqualified?"
Then I looked at the next sheet, and there my name was. I qualified for the A-main on my first race day. I was excited and scared at the same time. I was going to start in 9th position. Some of the racers at the club said that I should just concentrate and try to stay on the racing line.
The final started and I was happy being at the back of the grid. I knew that I would not be in someone’s way, or do something stupid. The race was on and I was just going at my pace. Guys were falling over their own feet (or should I say wheels). After about 5minutes I heard over the speaker system that I was in 7th position. After 15minutes I was in 4th. I thought that there must be something wrong with the timing system, because almost all the cars were still on the track. I must have over taken some of them in the pits or something as I only remember passing 3 guys on track when they made mistakes. I realized that I was actually still in 4th with about 7 minutes to go. At this stage some of the cars behind me have retired and we were only 7 cars left on the track. (My pit guy told me this after the race. As I would not try to count other cars on the track while I'm racing.)
Then, 2 laps later my car just stopped. My heart almost did as well. We retrieved my car to the pits and tried to start it up again. I thought that it was running to hot. I check the motor temperature and the temperature was fine.
We tried again and again, but it just wouldn't start. Then my pit guy checked the glow plug... All I have to say, it’s was the dam glow plug. At this stage there were less than two minutes left to go. So I just retired myself form the race. At then end of the race when they put results up, I'd done enough laps to put me in 6th position.
In the end I was happy with the results for my first race.
About this R40, I can only say the following.
WOW, This car can be fast. On some of the laps I could stay up with the guys with their Mugen MTX-4s and modified JP engines. My Zeppin modified OS TZ 3 port with my OS pipe could keep up with these guys on the infield and back straight. (At about $100 less that the cost off their motors) The only thing that couldn't keep up was my driving skills.
The guy that finished first said to me after the race that he had an R40 and sold it to get the mugen. But he never had the hara edition. He used to race with the stock R40, and it just became to slow, compared to the other cars.
He even asked me if he could take it for a spin the next time that we are practising at the track.
I think that this post could be close to one off the longest posts ever, but I just had to share it with the other R40 members.
Yesterday was my first day that I took part in an official race. I've been to our local track quite often to practice. Two of our top 3 drivers at national level, are members at our track. So it was tough to make a decision to take part in a race meeting with them. (Don’t want to be a moving chicane on the track.
)So, Yesterday I arrived at the track nice and early, set up my pit area. Then I had a chat with a couple of the guys to try and get the nerves down. I was grouped with the slower guys at the track. So that made me feel a little bit more relaxed.
About 15 minutes before the start of our heat, I thought, well let me just go through my car and make sure everything works fine. Checked the whole car and every thing seemed fine. Then I connected my batteries and switched on my Transmitter and receiver, and then .....................
Then the steering just turned to the left and got stuck there. I had a spare servo and connected it to the receiver and it worked fine. So I had about 10 minutes to replace the steering servo. Got it done with about 3 min to go.
Standing on the drivers stand, I could see my hands shaking. I started from 4th position, and going into the second turn, one of the guys hit me from behind and my car spun out. Guess what position I was in then.... Yes I was last. The only thing that came out of my mouth was... Ahh F...CK. Then I was about half the length of the back straight behind the second last lap.
It took me about 2 laps to catch up to him. Then things started to happen for me. Guys in front of me started making mistakes. They were spinning out. Braking to late, hitting each other. All of a sudden I was running 3rd.
I finish the first heat in 3rd position after starting 4th, being taken out, to last position and then fighting my way back to third. (Which included at least two big role overs.) My rear tyres had chunks ripped out of it. I had to replace them for the next heat.
I then started the second heat in 3rd position. On the second lap I pasted the guy in second place on the back straight. I couldn't believe that my OS TZ Zeppin mod motor as actually faster than his JP FX 3M motor. (YES, YES, YES I know there could be various reasons for his car to look slow. Tuning/Gearing/...).
The guy in first place was faster than me and started to pull a gap on me.
On about lap 8, he had an engine problem and had to retire. Guess where I was.
Yes, I was leading the race. It was very difficult to concentrate. I just said to myself..."Just stay on the road, don’t do any stupid things".... and I didn’t.
So when I got of the driver stand, I was smiling for about 5 minutes. It’s a good thing that I had a pair of ears on my head; otherwise my smile would have been all the way around my head. Allot of the guys congratulated me on this as I've spent allot of time practicing with them, but would never enter on a race day.
Still being very in-experienced in racing, I wasn’t paying much attention to my car after this. What could go wrong now? When the time arrived for the third heat I switched on me transmitter and receiver, they battery on the car just seemed dead. So the race started with out me. I replaced the battery, and could only join with about 2 minutes left. I finished last. I don’t know why this happened. Normally my batteries lasted a whole day of practice. BUT, I did learn my lesson.
Soon after all the heats were done, the rankings for the final were posted on the notice board. I did not seem my name in the group that I run in. I was thinking "did I do something wrong, did the computer throw my name out, or was I disqualified?"
Then I looked at the next sheet, and there my name was. I qualified for the A-main on my first race day. I was excited and scared at the same time. I was going to start in 9th position. Some of the racers at the club said that I should just concentrate and try to stay on the racing line.
The final started and I was happy being at the back of the grid. I knew that I would not be in someone’s way, or do something stupid. The race was on and I was just going at my pace. Guys were falling over their own feet (or should I say wheels). After about 5minutes I heard over the speaker system that I was in 7th position. After 15minutes I was in 4th. I thought that there must be something wrong with the timing system, because almost all the cars were still on the track. I must have over taken some of them in the pits or something as I only remember passing 3 guys on track when they made mistakes. I realized that I was actually still in 4th with about 7 minutes to go. At this stage some of the cars behind me have retired and we were only 7 cars left on the track. (My pit guy told me this after the race. As I would not try to count other cars on the track while I'm racing.)
Then, 2 laps later my car just stopped. My heart almost did as well. We retrieved my car to the pits and tried to start it up again. I thought that it was running to hot. I check the motor temperature and the temperature was fine.
We tried again and again, but it just wouldn't start. Then my pit guy checked the glow plug... All I have to say, it’s was the dam glow plug. At this stage there were less than two minutes left to go. So I just retired myself form the race. At then end of the race when they put results up, I'd done enough laps to put me in 6th position.
In the end I was happy with the results for my first race.
About this R40, I can only say the following.
WOW, This car can be fast. On some of the laps I could stay up with the guys with their Mugen MTX-4s and modified JP engines. My Zeppin modified OS TZ 3 port with my OS pipe could keep up with these guys on the infield and back straight. (At about $100 less that the cost off their motors) The only thing that couldn't keep up was my driving skills.
The guy that finished first said to me after the race that he had an R40 and sold it to get the mugen. But he never had the hara edition. He used to race with the stock R40, and it just became to slow, compared to the other cars.
He even asked me if he could take it for a spin the next time that we are practising at the track.
I think that this post could be close to one off the longest posts ever, but I just had to share it with the other R40 members.
09-11-2006, 02:33 PM
Originally Posted by ProE
Got an interesting story to tell.
Yesterday was my first day that I took part in an official race. I've been to ...........I think that this post could be close to one off the longest posts ever, but I just had to share it with the other R40 members.
Yesterday was my first day that I took part in an official race. I've been to ...........I think that this post could be close to one off the longest posts ever, but I just had to share it with the other R40 members.
09-11-2006, 08:44 PM
Tech Apprentice
Hey this is a sweet story. Everyone sometimes feels nervous and out of place when racing. I know I do, even though I've been doing this for four years. Practice is the key for sure. Trust your car too, I love my R40 so I try not to get caught on the I need the latest KIT syndrome.
Learn your car and your skill will follow it through.
Learn your car and your skill will follow it through.
09-11-2006, 11:42 PM
Hi,
If any of you guys are interested in getting new in Box Hara edition. Drop me a PM, i will forward you guys my LHS contact and you guys can buy from them directly.
If any of you guys are interested in getting new in Box Hara edition. Drop me a PM, i will forward you guys my LHS contact and you guys can buy from them directly.
09-11-2006, 11:45 PM
Originally Posted by ProE
Got an interesting story to tell.
09-12-2006, 01:52 PM
Would anybody be interested in trading their R40 for a nice upgraded Savage?
09-12-2006, 02:38 PM
Tech Regular
iTrader: (5)
*COUGH* HE*HACK*LL N*COUGH*O!
09-12-2006, 03:35 PM
Great job ProE!! 
Giant-
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Giant-
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09-12-2006, 04:52 PM
I have a r40 going up this weekend for $120 shipped (US only) if any one knows any one
09-12-2006, 04:55 PM
Tech Regular
iTrader: (5)
LOL harkonnen. Remove all of the hacking and coughing