R/C Bash

[Preacher_Ed]

Went to an R/C Bash hosted by my LHS today. I had a great time. They had the street closed off for speed runs. The fastest car was an electric clocked at 69mph!!. The other competition included a demo derby and a tug of war. The majority of the cars where electric with a few nitro here and there. There were no savages at all (I would love to have been in the tug of war, but I can't do anything until I receive my new engine). There seem to be tons of Traxxas trucks in this area, and I know I would have had a ball pulling against them. This was my first R/C Bash, and won't be my last.

 

[frddyj]

sounds like a great time ed. a lot of peeps buy traxxas because there is no build involved and it is very simple to run.

hpi is geared more toward modelers.

 

[Preacher_Ed]

I used to have a Traxxas E-Maxx. They are easy to work on, and there are plenty of parts, but I have to admit that even with the added complexity, and having to order parts, I like the Savage X better. I can't wait to give it a shot in the tug of war. I learned a lot and saw some really cool stuff. R/C car guys are great. They are willing to share information and always willing to talk to you about their trucks.

 

[maximusraylius]

sweet sounds like it was fun ... and i agree with frddy .. its a conveinence as well as every tarded shop carrys traxxas and so when smeone goes in they see a monster truck rc that says over 45 mph on the box they start drooling over it lol.

 

[Preacher_Ed]

I won't take anything away from the Traxxas trucks, I just feel like with the Savage I have "graduated" to something more complex. I'm having fun learning how to work on them. The one thing I'm going to have to learn is how to tune.

 

[maximusraylius]

i hear ya ... good attitude to have .... and youll figure out the tuning .. its really simple once you get the idea of how it should sound n perform.... and when in doubt run it on the ritch side so atleast its safe on the engine...

 

[Preacher_Ed]

I had already figured that from reading. I don't need blistering speed and I'm more interested in making my engine last than hi-performance. I just need to learn what the engine is telling me when I'm listeing to it. Right now it's like listening to someone speak Manderine Chinese: I hear something, I just have no clue what it means.

 

[maximusraylius]

lol... a easy way to figure it out ... if you do a high speed run after ts warmed up and when you let off the throttle and it still sounds like its reved pretty high then the rpms come down .. its to lean.. if it dropps the rpms instantly its good ... but if the rpms are not really high when you have the throttle peged its to ritch.... so find the high rpms and still have them drop as soon as you let of the throttle... hope this helps a lil....

 

[Preacher_Ed]

That sounds like something I can use. I'm not used to the sound of a nitro engine to "let it tell me what needs to be done". I'm looking foward to trying this with a new engine.