rcracer11m
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Post by rcracer11m on May 29, 2015 17:56:25 GMT
Since this is a racing crew and I knew there are some people in the crew that do real-life racing i was wondering if anyone else did any R.C. racing, or if people may have been interested and want to learn more about it and possibly get into the hobby yourself as it is one of the cheapest forms of real-life racing that you can do(except maybe donner karts).
Right now the only other person i know of that does this in the crew is @ohthatdezign but i was wondering if there were others or if we could get more people into the hobby.
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Post by OpalescentFalcon on May 29, 2015 18:03:09 GMT
Not really racing but I used to fly 6 Channel RC helicopters. Was great fun.
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Post by rcracer11m on May 29, 2015 18:07:07 GMT
Im currently doing some outdoor off-road racing with 4wd short course trucks at crystal valley. Heres a video of a race last year and there have been a few changes made to the track as well as my car as last year i had a gold body but now its blue.
sometimes ill go to another off-road track thats considerably larger called makin traxx this track has changed quite a bit since last year but we dont get to record much of the races
In the fall-spring season I do some dirt oval racing in the 17.5 latemodel class at radio hill raceway and im in the green and pink car.
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Post by rcracer11m on May 29, 2015 18:10:10 GMT
Not really racing but I used to fly 6 Channel RC helicopters. Was great fun. ive seen some really cool stunts that people do with the rc helicopters as well as some cool videos they shot from on board. i never got much into helicopters but i have had a few smaller ones to just fly in my house and they are quite fun to mess around with.
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2015 20:24:31 GMT
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Post by rcracer11m on May 29, 2015 23:15:05 GMT
Well based on your profile pic it looks like you run 2wd buggy which the 2wd classes have a lot less power than 4wd as were running 550 can motors and some are 4 pole rotors at 4000kv+ which is considerably higher than what any 2wd has for power and we have more grip to accelerate with the added drive tires. EDIT: I also see that there's a road course in the background so have you tried racing on that as well? I've been interested in trying that style racing but there aren't any tracks near me to race at.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2015 7:59:10 GMT
Well based on your profile pic it looks like you run 2wd buggy which the 2wd classes have a lot less power than 4wd as were running 550 can motors and some are 4 pole rotors at 4000kv+ which is considerably higher than what any 2wd has for power and we have more grip to accelerate with the added drive tires. EDIT: I also see that there's a road course in the background so have you tried racing on that as well? I've been interested in trying that style racing but there aren't any tracks near me to race at. Well I'm not in this video as it was taken last year, and I only began racing the offroad track this season. I think I'm 17th out of 65 in the standings so far. My motor is over 4000kv believe it or not, but considering how much we played for the motor esc combo, you would expect something quick. The start of last season, me and my dad, who also races short course trucks, bought a set of 8.5turn speed passion motor and esc brushless combos and so far they have been fantastic! Would be interested to know what short course truck you are using.
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Post by rcracer11m on May 30, 2015 13:53:04 GMT
Well based on your profile pic it looks like you run 2wd buggy which the 2wd classes have a lot less power than 4wd as were running 550 can motors and some are 4 pole rotors at 4000kv+ which is considerably higher than what any 2wd has for power and we have more grip to accelerate with the added drive tires. EDIT: I also see that there's a road course in the background so have you tried racing on that as well? I've been interested in trying that style racing but there aren't any tracks near me to race at. Well I'm not in this video as it was taken last year, and I only began racing the offroad track this season. I think I'm 17th out of 65 in the standings so far. My motor is over 4000kv believe it or not, but considering how much we played for the motor esc combo, you would expect something quick. The start of last season, me and my dad, who also races short course trucks, bought a set of 8.5turn speed passion motor and esc brushless combos and so far they have been fantastic! Would be interested to know what short course truck you are using. Right now I have a caster racing rapture which is based off an 1/8th scale buggy but they narrowed the a-arms to make it fit in the sc rules. I'm running a tenshock motor in it with a tekin rx8 speed control and pcr 7600 mah battery with a spektrum receiver and radio.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2015 20:04:29 GMT
Well I'm not in this video as it was taken last year, and I only began racing the offroad track this season. I think I'm 17th out of 65 in the standings so far. My motor is over 4000kv believe it or not, but considering how much we played for the motor esc combo, you would expect something quick. The start of last season, me and my dad, who also races short course trucks, bought a set of 8.5turn speed passion motor and esc brushless combos and so far they have been fantastic! Would be interested to know what short course truck you are using. Right now I have a caster racing rapture which is based off an 1/8th scale buggy but they narrowed the a-arms to make it fit in the sc rules. I'm running a tenshock motor in it with a tekin rx8 speed control and pcr 7600 mah battery with a spektrum receiver and radio. 7600man batteries! I'm pressuring they are 3 cells. My dad has a team durango desc410 v2, which is essentially a 4wd upgraded version of my durango buggy. Yeah we run 5300man 2 cell Nanotech batteries with 2.4ghz transmitters. They do the job.
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Post by Jon Cannon on Aug 20, 2015 22:22:25 GMT
Mostly 1/8th buggy recently; I started with 2wd stadium truck when I was very young, but 1/8th scale is the most popular around here, and I've been racing it since Team Associated came out with their first 1/8th scale buggy in 2006 or 2007. The buggy farthest from the camera is a factory team race kit which is obviously my main race buggy, the one in front is a Race Spec ready to run that I have just in case I need quick parts instead of rummaging through my bags of parts looking for one part in particular.
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