RC Car Racing

[ShaneyB]

All,
Anyone own/race either electric, nitro or petrol 1:10 ratio Baja buggy's or touring cars?

Thinking of getting one or two for a laugh with my son as I have some very good playgrounds near me and it would give us some good lads time. Looking at Schumacher, Losi or an ECX Boost for him.

I was after some advice on what to get.

Cheers

[RSKiwi]

If you are handy or you want your son to have an interest in building things I would go with a higher end Tamiya Model that he has to assemble and paint from scratch. Then you can begin 'modding' with new gears, motors suspension etc etc. You can also do that on the other brands you mention as they are all very good. Perhaps the one benefit of Tamiya is the wide range of vehicle choice you can get, anything from a 3 speed (you change gears via the controller) Toyota hilux pick up to a full noise drift car running nitro or an electric 'brushless' system.

These guys are a pretty good store with many brands
http://www.modelsport.co.uk/tamiya-rc-e ... 900/990010

Word of advice, if you are after a nitro powered vehicle you definitely get what you pay for so a cheap Chinese branded nitro will cause you no end of grief.

[Rick_RS4]

i have always been into them recently sold a 1/8 nitro buggy it was awesome, i have a 1/10 hpi RS4 3 18ss virtually brand new with the drift kit also, all carbon which i will be selling all servos and transmitters too.





this has had very little use, as i bought this shortly after

my other montser a 1/5 23cc petrol rc buggy

full alloy shocks upgrade, steel gears 4x4, pipercross filter, larger inlet manifold, ngk uprated plug and ht lead,

this thing is mental





both forsale if your interested

[ShaneyB]

Interested Rick, how much? PM me??

The only reason I was considering electric was noise levels and maintenance but open to anything really. I don't want cheap but at the same time I don't want to spend £700.00 and then get bored in 2 weeks. If we stay interested then I will definitely go for the kit and build option but I initially want RTR. There's a 1:10 electric buggy night in Watford tonight so I may go there and have a look.