nitrohead5300

The topic changes all the time on this site between landspeed record attemps to drag racing to parking lot bashing.

ziggy12345

So its back to land speed record attempts....

Here is Nics latest video 162.92mph

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAc4FnbZFYQ

nitrohead5300

Wow!!

ziggy12345

151 mph at the speed event today with the rocket car. No more runs due to a slight technical glitch

Cheers

nitrohead5300

Thats impressive , Ziggy !! I know you got 200mph in your sights!!

MiamizFinest

Rocket car?? i thought u gave up on that thing and where building a 60 something size nitro car?!!?

ziggy12345

Its far too much fun to give up! I built an open IC car with a 7.5cc or .45 engine and it went really well but I had problems with the drive train. After they were fixed the water pump broke so couldnt run it. I have plans for more IC cars for the next event and another rocket car as the technical hitch I talked about totally destroyed this one.

Cheers

ziggy12345

http://www.youtube.com/user/RCSpeedC.../1/pmJQ-p6Kic4

Cheers

nitrohead5300

Ziggy, what was the glitch on the rocket car??

ziggy12345

Nitro...

http://www.youtube.com/user/RCSpeedC.../1/LPTCHLcFS-o

nitrohead5300

What , the hell happened Ziggy?? I didnt see that video thats too bad!!

ziggy12345

Like I said, a small technical hitch. The igniter didnt have a groove in it so when packed into the end of the rocket and ignited the gasses produced didnt have anywhere to go. The motor exploded and totally destroyed the car.

The total damage was not much. A few inches of stainless steel pipe, A valve I never found, A receiver, and a couple of lengths of aluminium angle for the chassis plus the body. I plan to rebuild the car with the planned upgrade of new wheels and additional external N2 tanks. It will all be ready by the 1st practice event next year

Cheers

nitrohead5300

I am sure you will reach your goal next year .

ziggy12345

Some more vids


[link]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB_moXZ2DTM[/link]

bigdogkanicsar

here is an LD3 that i converted for a buddy of mine and put a hyper .21 in it.




http://s1013.photobucket.com/albums/...rent=001-4.mp4

martsrc

Did you custom make the chassis and wheels??[X(]

bop

IT LOOK  PRETTY FAST.

bigdogkanicsar

i made tthe chassis, radio tray, engine mounts, chassis braces, and fuel tank mounts.
however i didn't make the wheels, thay are 36mm hot-racing show wheels.

i tried to get my buddy to do a 2 speed but he said his experience with faster things would have to wait as he didn't want to wreck it

Brent Davis

Wow, now that is what I'm talking about. Great build man but how does it run? I've got a whole new chassis that I am building for my CD3 that will be a single speed car that will run VERY hard. Stay tuned to see it.

bigdogkanicsar

runs good ,the hyper i put in it didn't have super compression though but he just put a new piston and sleeve in it and has new tires on order but he ordered 26mm rubber.
this is the first on road of this calibre that he has ever had, so it'll be interesting to see the vids he posts.
i live in fresno, ca and he lives in mcfarland, ca 100 miles away so when he posts vids i'l post up here.
wait i have a vid on photobucket that i made during testing.

http://s1013.photobucket.com/albums/...rent=001-4.mp4

nitrohead5300

............Nice build like the way you route the exhaust

bigdogkanicsar

thanks man

i did it that way for a few of reasons
1 to keep the extra weight more towards the center of the car
2 it is loud as ****.
3 keeps the exhaust fumes of the tires and the rest of the car, except what curls around and sticks to the rear.
really keeps cleaning to a minimum
4 it just looks a lot cleaner and that MACS pipe gives great top end

nitrohead5300

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aler_ka

i dont know if this would cosider big but here's mine

ziggy12345

Upgrades.....





2 external N2 bottles feed the accumulator via a regulator so I can fill the accumulator all the way and have double the burn time and also stronger thrust

Cheers