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ORIGINAL: asmund

Those electric dragster videos just illustrates how cool nitro is. Those were the most booooring dragster videoes ever

Take away the roaring thunder and half the fun is gone, same with rc-cars too

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ORIGINAL: Foxy

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ORIGINAL: yakfish

It will be a LONG time before the internal combustion egine is completely replaced. I won't be in the lifetime of a any of us here on the forum right now. Those who say nitro is easier are...well... wrong. I have nothing against nitro at all. I still have a couple out in the garage right now sitting alongside my brushless cars. But electric IS easier sorry but these are the facts. I just came in from doing a few 90-100MPH passes out on the empty street near my house a few minutes ago. I can't do that with my nitros. I do love the sound and smell of a nitro and tuning makes if feel more like a real hobby and less like I am playing with toys, but I have nearly stopped running the nitros becuase brushless is so easy, so powerfull, and so fast! And brushless has a sound al its own. Ever hear an 1/8 scale on 6s fly past you at 80mph with the motor spinning at 55,000 rpm? I don't understand why people are so strong in their stand in the fight of nitro v. electric. They are both fun, they both have their place. if you want brushless get brushless. If you want nitro get nitro. Its all good!

Define a 'long time'.

Think of the length of time since the big bang as exactly a year, making each month approximately 1.1 billion years. Human beings popped into existence in the last three hours of the 31st of December. I give combustion another 100 years at the absolute tops. When it is gone it will be looked back on as part of the dark ages of humanity, best forgotten.

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ORIGINAL: TheKennyKiller

I can't speak for phmaximus but I think I understand it. You said that nitros were like plug and play because you can fuel it up and go as apposed to waiting ''hours'' for batteries to charge for electrics then phmaximas proved you wrong by reminding you that you need to charge the receiver pack which takes about the same time to charge as a 5000mAh LiPo. Seems pretty straight forward to me.

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ORIGINAL: echthelion

lord someone gets it  

im not trying to bash electric i just like nitro because i can drop what im doing and go drive without the waiting on batterys

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ORIGINAL: yakfish

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ORIGINAL: Foxy

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ORIGINAL: yakfish

It will be a LONG time before the internal combustion egine is completely replaced. I won't be in the lifetime of a any of us here on the forum right now. Those who say nitro is easier are...well... wrong. I have nothing against nitro at all. I still have a couple out in the garage right now sitting alongside my brushless cars. But electric IS easier sorry but these are the facts. I just came in from doing a few 90-100MPH passes out on the empty street near my house a few minutes ago. I can't do that with my nitros. I do love the sound and smell of a nitro and tuning makes if feel more like a real hobby and less like I am playing with toys, but I have nearly stopped running the nitros becuase brushless is so easy, so powerfull, and so fast! And brushless has a sound al its own. Ever hear an 1/8 scale on 6s fly past you at 80mph with the motor spinning at 55,000 rpm? I don't understand why people are so strong in their stand in the fight of nitro v. electric. They are both fun, they both have their place. if you want brushless get brushless. If you want nitro get nitro. Its all good!

Define a 'long time'.

Think of the length of time since the big bang as exactly a year, making each month approximately 1.1 billion years. Human beings popped into existence in the last three hours of the 31st of December. I give combustion another 100 years at the absolute tops. When it is gone it will be looked back on as part of the dark ages of humanity, best forgotten.

LOL! That is a whole other can of worms there Foxy! To us a life time IS a long time! The internal combustion will still be around when we die.

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ORIGINAL: Foxy

Before I go out with my 2 nitros, I have to make sure at least 5 batteries are charged (pair of nimh sticks for the starter box, receiver pack x2, glow ignitor) I use them infrequently enough that these batteries ALWAYS need charging. With 5 batteries for my electrics I can bash 2 cars pretty much all day. If I want to run my nitros, I have to go at least 500m from any kind of living space, pretty difficult in an overpopulated capital city. At the end of a day with my nitros, I stink of smoke, oil, I'm black with grease and crap, I have to take old clothes because good ones would be ruined I can wear a suit to bash the electrics if I wanted. I never have to tune my electrics, or at least, when I do, I do it on my laptop and its a matter of 1 or 0, not an analog tuning process which despite what some people believe in this thread, is not always easy. I expect I can tune as well as any of you, I grew up tuning 45,000rpm .12s for racing, and whats' more I went to one track that was at the top of a mountain and another at sea level and had to tune quite differently for each elevation. Not to mention 'lemons', engines that are just a total PITA always, every experienced nitro user has had a 'fussy' engine. Not a problem with the electrics.

If the sound and smell is worth all that to you, to still have less performance, then more power to ya (or rather less, cos a nitro engine only makes 3hp compared to 6hp from my 1515 and triple the torque). I tell ya, when I put the 6S truggy down at the bash spot, the 'civilians' aren't watching the nitros any more. Yeh, boring. lololol.

I like nitro, I still have 2 nitro cars, though only one is serviceable, but it's getting used less and less, mainly because they are lacking in performance by comparison, I see no gain in going to the trouble of firing them up.

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ORIGINAL: Foxy


If the sound and smell is worth all that to you, to still have less performance, then more power to ya (or rather less, cos a nitro engine only makes 3hp compared to 6hp from my 1515 and triple the torque). I tell ya, when I put the 6S truggy down at the bash spot, the 'civilians' aren't watching the nitros any more. Yeh, boring. lololol.

sigh we are geting away from my point in the first post nitro from my point of view is more "plug and play"  then electric

you have batterys ready right now? because i  can be outside in 10min running my nitro and thats my point now as said above theres exceptions to anything

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ORIGINAL: echthelion

sigh we are geting away from my point in the first post nitro from my point of view is more ''plug and play''  then electric

you have batterys ready right now? because i  can be outside in 10min running my nitro and thats my point now as said above theres exceptions to anything

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ORIGINAL: Foxy

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ORIGINAL: echthelion

sigh we are geting away from my point in the first post nitro from my point of view is more ''plug and play''  then electric

you have batterys ready right now? because i  can be outside in 10min running my nitro and thats my point now as said above theres exceptions to anything

I do. In fact I just turned on my mini revo and I'm running it on the desk in front of me, let's see you do that with your nitro.

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ORIGINAL: Foxy

Before I go out with my 2 nitros, I have to make sure at least 5 batteries are charged (pair of nimh sticks for the starter box, receiver pack x2, glow ignitor) I use them infrequently enough that these batteries ALWAYS need charging. With 5 batteries for my electrics I can bash 2 cars pretty much all day. If I want to run my nitros, I have to go at least 500m from any kind of living space, pretty difficult in an overpopulated capital city. At the end of a day with my nitros, I stink of smoke, oil, I'm black with grease and crap, I have to take old clothes because good ones would be ruined I can wear a suit to bash the electrics if I wanted. I never have to tune my electrics, or at least, when I do, I do it on my laptop and its a matter of 1 or 0, not an analog tuning process which despite what some people believe in this thread, is not always easy. I expect I can tune as well as any of you, I grew up tuning 45,000rpm .12s for racing, and whats' more I went to one track that was at the top of a mountain and another at sea level and had to tune quite differently for each elevation. Not to mention 'lemons', engines that are just a total PITA always, every experienced nitro user has had a 'fussy' engine. Not a problem with the electrics.

If the sound and smell is worth all that to you, to still have less performance, then more power to ya (or rather less, cos a nitro engine only makes 3hp compared to 6hp from my 1515 and triple the torque). I tell ya, when I put the 6S truggy down at the bash spot, the 'civilians' aren't watching the nitros any more. Yeh, boring. lololol.

I like nitro, I still have 2 nitro cars, though only one is serviceable, but it's getting used less and less, mainly because they are lacking in performance by comparison, I see no gain in going to the trouble of firing them up.

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ORIGINAL: Foxy

Maybe you don't like to touch yourself like I do.

I get the oil on my hands, it soon turns black, then I touch my face, my clothes, etc. I can't believe you are not dirty after a day out running nitro, I am always filthy, even at the on road track. I am the kind of person that could get dirty in the vaccuum of space though.

I have to admit actually, the BL truggy is about 1/3rd as loud as a nitro and could not be run at night, however, I'll put my brushless losi 22 up against your quietest brushed and I bet it's as quiet. It's nearly silent, I swear. It's weird being able to hear the road noise of the tires. :/

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ORIGINAL: chasehq


Try a 1/8 turn leaner in summer, 1/8 turn richer in winter. not to mention the fuel cost

Ahhhhh gas

there is no universal adjustment for summer/winter, however a good running engine needs a adjustment WITHIN a 1/4 turn.... I have been running nitro for almost 13 years so don't try to correct me, I can tune all needles at once and almost always be spot on the first time, I have burned many gallons of fuel.

and here, I get nitro for $20, so I can get 5 gallons of fun for one 4cell battery, most people have at least 2 or 3 so then I could get 10 or 15 gallons, plus I can get about 2 O.S VG .21 for one 1/8 brushless setup.

yes, nitro can have electrical issues, but you can obviously see when the throttle servo isn't working right, that just leaves the radio or servo.