weedeater vs nitro
04-29-2011, 08:56 AM
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RE: weedeater vs nitro
ORIGINAL: Foxy
Indeed, what I find 'fun' at any given moment is driven by fickle desires. I have 4 gassers 1 electric and currently 1 nitro (a mugen mbx5t prospec truggy), but I am about to lay out $1500 on a new 1/10th nitro TC setup cos I miss racing 1/10th on road nitro. I'll probably go back to the gassers again one day, but for now I want 40k rpm, 0-60 in 3 secs and unnaturally fast cornering on the limit of what my reflexes will allow me to accomplish.
Indeed, what I find 'fun' at any given moment is driven by fickle desires. I have 4 gassers 1 electric and currently 1 nitro (a mugen mbx5t prospec truggy), but I am about to lay out $1500 on a new 1/10th nitro TC setup cos I miss racing 1/10th on road nitro. I'll probably go back to the gassers again one day, but for now I want 40k rpm, 0-60 in 3 secs and unnaturally fast cornering on the limit of what my reflexes will allow me to accomplish.
In the spring, I change the batteries, gas it up, take it to the local ball field and, with it's one or two pull starts, I'm jumping the pitchers mound, run donuts on the infield and then chase the geese. After doing that for 1/2 hour, it's back to storage for another several months. Never have fiddled with adjusting anything on this thing. It's been a ton of fun, period, and it's there whenever I want. Somebody said something about TOYS for grown men. Well this is about as close to that definition as I could get.
When I want to work, I take out my competition airplanes.....that's work; and fun
04-29-2011, 10:47 AM
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RE: weedeater vs nitro
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Well, not really. Although I agree with him, there's no need to get into name calling. I hope he's feeling OK.
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TBJ, that sir, was very well said!
TBJ, that sir, was very well said!
04-29-2011, 12:39 PM
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RE: weedeater vs nitro
I have both a nitro car and a gas car. The nitro is a Losi XXX NT AD2 with an OS Max .12 TZ. My gas car is an HPI Baja 5b SS with a Zen engine. I have had FAR LESS aggravation from NITRO engines. I find them to be MUCH easier to deal with than gas engines. But I still have much more money into my HPI Baja 5b.
04-29-2011, 05:14 PM
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RE: weedeater vs nitro
thats rockin it old school never did manage to find top end in mine 4 I chickened out the thing screamed like a cat somebody was tryin to pull the arms off of!!!!!
Kenny would be proud to see they're still around
Kenny would be proud to see they're still around
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Most fun. Screw both of the above.
Most fun. Screw both of the above.
04-30-2011, 08:24 PM
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RE: weedeater vs nitro
I get 45-50 minutes of runtime on my Baja 5B and have not had to tune it since I pulled it out of the box. It sounds better (had the cops called on me at my apartment complex) and just feels better to drive.
Plus like others have said I bought a gallon of nitro for $25 but a gallon of gasoline is only $4.xx.
Unless, as I am currently discovering , we were talking about nitro helicopters (which we are not). They seem to be so much simpler, yet more powerful than my nitro 8ight 2.0. I think I'd take a nitro heli over a gas one.
Plus like others have said I bought a gallon of nitro for $25 but a gallon of gasoline is only $4.xx.
Unless, as I am currently discovering , we were talking about nitro helicopters (which we are not). They seem to be so much simpler, yet more powerful than my nitro 8ight 2.0. I think I'd take a nitro heli over a gas one.
