WOW that thing is fast!!!

[Johnny Drama 5,000+ posts]

200+mph Nitro car.

http://rcvehicles.about.com/od/rcvideosonline/v/200mphnitro.htm

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[InhumanAcura 5,000+ posts]

jeeeeeeeeeeeez...

that dude better be careful of that wire, lol

 

[HiAmplidude 10+ year member]

insane! I was actually working on a land-speed record for a class of 4WD monster trucks myself but hit just over 60 MPH. It's amazing what it takes to get speed. It seemed like after 40 MPH, every 5 MPH higher required about double additional horsepower. I was running enough power to literally power a human-Passenger ultralight aircraft when I hit 60+ MPH in a 14 pound 1/8th scale truck.

 

[Ignatowski 5,000+ posts]

how do they keep the fuel from getting G forced away from the carb?

Them cars have to be pulling some major G's,I cant see how in a circular motion

they can feed to motor ........

 

[VOA_NIGHTMARE 10+ year member]

insane! I was actually working on a land-speed record for a class of 4WD monster trucks myself but hit just over 60 MPH. It's amazing what it takes to get speed. It seemed like after 40 MPH, every 5 MPH higher required about double additional horsepower. I was running enough power to literally power a human-Passenger ultralight aircraft when I hit 60+ MPH in a 14 pound 1/8th scale truck.

I was reading and alot of lists state that the new ek4 can hit over 60+ and it is 4x4 stock.

And that video gave me a headache lol had volume right up tryn to keep up watchn it lol

 

[Johnny Drama 5,000+ posts]

how do they keep the fuel from getting G forced away from the carb?Them cars have to be pulling some major G's,I cant see how in a circular motion

they can feed to motor ........

Maybe the motor is angled so the fuel is forced into the carbs...

 

[VOA_NIGHTMARE 10+ year member]

how do they keep the fuel from getting G forced away from the carb?Them cars have to be pulling some major G's,I cant see how in a circular motion

they can feed to motor ........

90 Gs of lateral acceleration and pulling more than 600 pounds of tension

 

[flakko 5,000+ posts]

thats NUTS! that guy must be dizzy

 

[skmfkr 5,000+ posts]

or maybe its like all the cars from the 90s+ and doesnt use a carb...i as expecting to use some type of racing with other cars on a course, it would **** of that guy fell and got his legs cut off

 

[Ignatowski 5,000+ posts]

90 Gs,I would think the motor would have serious probs

not falling apart from friction or oil starvation.........

Im not buying it yet

 

[HiAmplidude 10+ year member]

Try making speed without a control wire. It's beyond what most people can even imagine.

Monster truck tires turn into CD-shaped blades at around 50 MPH with only a few millimeters of contact surface. Foam tires obviously hold their shape, but so little friction makes it impossible to control. There is no way to get insane speeds like that without decreasing centrifugal forces of the rubber on the tire (not to mention amazing amounts of output and correct gearing from the drive system). You can do 8th scale buggy wheels/tires, but those have a very small contact surface too. Stopping or controlling a 14-16-pound truck over 50 MPH is impossible under the best circumstances, but much worse with buggy wheels.

That's one of the things that got me hooked on extreme RC -- trying to find the magic balance that makes for the best possible results. I found it (I believe) and that's when the challenge was partially gone making it easier to put RC "on the shelf" for the time being, so to speak.

 

[HiAmplidude 10+ year member]

I'm pretty sure some of the videos I have on rcNuts.com have speed-passes where the tires are spinning so fast they turn to disks. It's crazy stuff. Believe it or not, when that happens, it improves aerodynamics and drive ratio, increasing speed, but makes control completely impossible in anything but a straight line (if you can "hold" a straight line).