anyone have one of those 1/18th scale rc buggies?

[ajspellm 10+ year member]

i am selling the mini t for $85

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

ahh cool i like the electric better as far as using it far less crap to deal with lol.

Yeah...me too....I'm still a n00b at RC cars and didn't feel like having to deal with tinkering with the gas engines yet...LOL

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

only thing though you have 10th scale ill have 18th lol

 

[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

only thing though you have 10th scale ill have 18th lol

But I bet yours will be faster than mine....LOL

 

[HiAmplidude 10+ year member]

I never did the waaaay small RC, but I've always wanted to do a mini brushless motor system in one.

Here's a little vid of a 10th scale 2WD stadium truck I built that was pushing enough power to brutilize a 4WD monster truck 4 times its weight. It was capable of well over 70+ MPH (real) with appropriate gearing. Check out the wheelie here with no traction -- it did this just from the kinetic energy of the spinning rear wheels -- kinda' like how a ping-pong ball can almost hover with a heavy back-spin. Most people have no idea what this means. I'll just say it's insane power.

http://66.93.220.59/rcnuts/video/HiAmplidude%20Pede%20Racer%20B50%208S%206%20cells%20loose%20dirt%20wheelie%20lo.wmv

here's a pic' of that stadium truck. It was actually a Stampede "monster truck" when it started life, but I modified it beyond recognition.

And here's what it looks like to try to control a huge 1/8th scale 14-16 pound 4x4, all-alloy monster truck pushing well enough power to literally power a human-passenger ultralite aircraft. This was a project I was working on to beat the class world land-speed record, which I came very close to at just over 60MPH before getting out of the hobby for my family.

http://66.93.220.59/rcnuts/video/HiAmp%20insane%20truck%20flat%20dirt%20speed%20passes%2018%20cells.wmv

But this beauty queen didn't sit on the shelf. Here's a bit of dirt wall surfing footage. It's easily the best suspension truck I've ever built. Absolutely graceful on the worst terrain.

http://66.93.220.59/rcnuts/video/HiAmp%20insane%20truck%20steep%20hill%20surfing%2018%20cells.wmv

and, it's dual-brushless motor-system brother:

The cousin on the right here was only 10-pounds loaded and fully ready for a 20 minute race. Rare Aveox aircraft motor in that pup.

Every time you guys bring up RC, it brings back fond memories. Just wanted to share some with you.

Cheers!

-HiAmp

 

[Rattlebrain 10+ year member]

Wow drool drool

STOP TEASING ME *******!!!!!

j/k

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

http://www.zhobby.com/18banigasrar.html

 

[HiAmplidude 10+ year member]

More videos, including better edited ones with music are here:

http://66.93.220.59/rcnuts/videos.htm

Because of limited bandwidth I recommend selecting the "lo" option if you don't want to wait too long.

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

i was gonna say that was fast but i see you were running more cells. in what i raced we had roar rules where we run 6 or 7 cell batteries on non cobalt motors. lol reminds me of the flat pan dragster a guy built from the hobby shop here. had 32 small cells on a BIG cobalt motor. the car didnt survive its stop and it left black marks on the pavement lol was one of the crazier things i had seen. i know he has a vhs video of it but we didnt time it or radar gun it. it was based on a bolink carpet car (1/12th scale) was light as hell minus the cells it could only run for about 25 seconds on a full charge. but that link i pasted up there shows a nitro car jumping a house lol and looks like it could have gone over a 2 story house easy.

 

[HiAmplidude 10+ year member]

i was gonna say that was fast but i see you were running more cells. in what i raced we had roar rules where we run 6 or 7 cell batteries on non cobalt motors. lol reminds me of the flat pan dragster a guy built from the hobby shop here. had 32 small cells on a BIG cobalt motor. the car didnt survive its stop and it left black marks on the pavement lol was one of the crazier things i had seen. i know he has a vhs video of it but we didnt time it or radar gun it. it was based on a bolink carpet car (1/12th scale) was light as hell minus the cells it could only run for about 25 seconds on a full charge. but that link i pasted up there shows a nitro car jumping a house lol and looks like it could have gone over a 2 story house easy.

That first link of the 10th scale ST wheelie was on only 6 cells. Yikers!

You should've seen me trying to control it on pavement when it was running its full 10-cell capacity (shown in the lid-off picture). The aerofoil that the body created actually lifted it off the ground. I could never get a quality GPS speed reading so it's not on the chart.

BTW: I've speed-tested hundreds, if not thousands of passes and have come to not-rely on radar. It has always come out inconsistent and unreliable. I could only get reliable data doing LOOOONG passes with GPS multiple times and averaging them. Radar readings that people claim now mean nothing to me. I've gotten "blips" on radar that were a lot of MPH higher than the vehicle was actually pulling. The bad part is, on a very small/light vehicle, the GPS unit either weighs it down too much or is too big to haul at all.

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

what motor?

 

[HiAmplidude 10+ year member]

what motor?

Hacker B50 8S on Hacker Master Competition II controller.

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

lol airplane motors?

 

[HiAmplidude 10+ year member]

lol airplane motors?

*hehe* (shhhh....)

Yup. Moved up into lower RPM/V heli-motors when more power/torque was needed for the bigger trucks and taller gearing.

I was part of a handful of close-knit pioneers that really broke open the market/possibilities of brushless technology for use in heavier land RC vehicles. There is even a BL motor manufacturer that named an entire line of their motors after my forum nickname "HiAmp". What I and a couple other guys were doing is what caused much of what is brushless power in RC today, but I will never take credit away from "TheJANG" for his super-early work with an almost experimental kit from ModelTech (hacker/schulze) that failed miserably. He's the OG. I just pushed the envelope and followed it through until it could be considered a real power option for a somewhat educated consumer. Never got much credit for it, and neither did "Outkast666" and a couple others.

 

[Rattlebrain 10+ year member]

HiAmplidude,

Ever here of a guy named Matt Herrington?