Originally Posted by
tc5 man
indoor tracks i can see 1/8 electric taking over, at outdoor tracks i dont see that happening anytime soon. Espially with all the 4wd sc trucks coming out it doesnt help getting more people into 1/8 e buggy/truggy . Even though there is not a hugh price diffrence doing a converted 1/8 scale.
One track i go to now im the only electric 1/8 e truggy, and a guy i race with is the only 1/8 e buggy the others are nitro i dont see it changing. By the way i used to do nothing but nitro 1/8 .
I do agree with you though electric has takin a big step in technology, so much easier than ever before when i raced onroad with nicd/nimh and brush motors nothing but a $$ and a PIA.
But nitro is not going away anytime soon in the future if somehow there can be gas engines that require no tuning like the nitro engines do i will change back !
OS Engines tried a no tune engine fuel injection system did not work and very expensive. Look at the air side of things nitro planes is now a very small part of the hobby almost all of the pilots I know fly electric and if you do happen to see a nitro plane it's at a large fun fly. Nitro cars will follow the same trend electric is easier and nitro will be a thing of the past, because of the fact that racers want it easy and not have to work for there fun.