Impulse purchase
 

Well just made an impulse purchase, just bought a new RC car of scale 1/8.

It's got a two-speed automatic with a 4.6cc engine and has a topspeed of 96 kph and will be driven on the race tack we have in the local RC club.

Will take some pics to compare it to my 1/10 scale when i get the 1/8 (it's on order)

The body is a 2007 AUDI DTM.

lol sweet ... i never got into the cars but they do haul some ass...

OoooooO I love impulse buys :D. Is that a typo that it will go 96kph or 60mph? If so that's bad ass. How much was it?

Yep, it's top speed is 60 mph :D

Set me back around 680 - 690 USD (not sure on the exact figure, don't have the figures by me)

cool! I've never had one before, but I've watched some guys race them at my local hoby shop. good stuff. :D

first bit isn't that insteresting

Difference between my 1/10th and the new 1/8th and two alone shots on the 1/8th

my question is, how does one race on a track like that? do they view it from overhead as they race or what? it just seems like it would be hard to control when viewing it at ground level....

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee that's quick :D

2 things i just bought that i probably didnt really need to :D

http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/2...0mmf4lusml.jpg

http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/300...24inchlcdh.jpg

They are at the level as of the end of the clip, viewing slightly from above :)

Nice there Steve, what f is that 70-200 lens? I want a nikkor 70-200 F2.8 but it's a bit much so I bught a new RC car instead ;)

Oh and what size is that monitor?

Damn that thing is quick xD the acceleration is stupid. What do you use to control them? Surely you'll need a wheel or something to corner that fast?

Wow, those little things friggin move

Something like this:



That one is the one I'm planing to buy in the future, it's awsome with the 2.4 frequency as it's intelligent with ID so you don't need crystals to change frequency like in the other systems.

So it's indeed a wheelbased system, there are however a few on this planet that use airplane controls, the stick type that you usually get with cheap toys, but they are better of course. How they can drive with that system is beyond me. :drive:


EDIT:

Below is a photo of the 2 Hp engine that spins at 27000 rpm at full throttle :) Amazing how such a small engine can put out such high power and high RPM!

Thanks to you I spend the day watching youtube videos on rc cars. Some of those get upto 100mph. Wow. That makes me interested in it :D

Haha, yeah those brushless electric are pretty sick when it comes to topspeed!