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ORIGINAL: Foxy
Alright, since a couple of people have asked, the FG range is kind of the middle market of 1/5th RC. It's not racing quality out of the box, but it's of significantly better quality than most other models. That particular car has about 900E in it right now. It's completely stock in that video, even the horrible 'heli can' exhaust system, which starves the engine of it's low end power. It has a Zenoah 26cc engine, they're like the novarossi of gas engines. Only the FGs come with Zenoahs, all the others come with the chinese copy engines, known as CY. They're not bad, but the Zen's pull harder. Also, try 30lb RC car, not 15.

The cost of large scale cars is proportionate with their size, and the amount and thickness of the metals which must be employed. A top dollar racing gas engine will set you back $1000 comfortably on it's own. The basic stock engine s are very cheap though. You can get a lot more power out of these engines with your pipe choice, and head mods (porting etc) make a big difference too. $1000 for a decent quality 1/5th gas car is something of a holy grail. The good ones cost a lot more.

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ORIGINAL: AffordableRC

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ORIGINAL: Foxy
Alright, since a couple of people have asked, the FG range is kind of the middle market of 1/5th RC. It's not racing quality out of the box, but it's of significantly better quality than most other models. That particular car has about 900E in it right now. It's completely stock in that video, even the horrible 'heli can' exhaust system, which starves the engine of it's low end power. It has a Zenoah 26cc engine, they're like the novarossi of gas engines. Only the FGs come with Zenoahs, all the others come with the chinese copy engines, known as CY. They're not bad, but the Zen's pull harder. Also, try 30lb RC car, not 15.

The cost of large scale cars is proportionate with their size, and the amount and thickness of the metals which must be employed. A top dollar racing gas engine will set you back $1000 comfortably on it's own. The basic stock engine s are very cheap though. You can get a lot more power out of these engines with your pipe choice, and head mods (porting etc) make a big difference too. $1000 for a decent quality 1/5th gas car is something of a holy grail. The good ones cost a lot more.

Zenoah does make great engines, thats all we used to build for the scooters. The prices seem to have come down quite a bit on those engines. I am seeing ported big bores with head kits for less then $300; stroker cranks for $50-60.

I assume the stock can is gutted on that, sure sounds that way. You really need to change over to an expansion chamber to get the power out of these engines.

What model Zenoah is in that 900E?? G260RC??

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ORIGINAL: Foxy
It is indeed a G260RC, the stock can is not gutted either in this video. It's a very nice engine, I'm very pleased with it and the tune seems to be just right. I have an RN Fat Tuning Monster Power S pipe waiting to go on it, this will make a huge difference. This truck is about to see $700 worth of upgrades fitted in the next month or so.

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ORIGINAL: Foxy

I don't think it's appropriate to discuss another brand in a support forum. Why don't you wait and see what redcat comes up with, no doubt the prices will be good.