brianquinn

Hi i am going to my lhs soon to buy either a hoped up savage or a FG monster beetle.

How is the maintence on the monster beetle. Are the engines reliable? i currently have a tmaxx and lst but nitros annoy me are the zenoah engines less troublesome? Please help me decide what to get

teamchrome

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Go with the gas, nitro is fun , but nowhere as much fun as the big gassers.
You will not believe the simplicity and reliability of the Zenoah motors.
HORSE POWER !!!!
If you ever ran nitro this is so much easier and pain free.
Look around here and see
Post pics of your choice..

MnMikeRC

Just imagine the thought of never buying glow plugs again, buying fuel for under $3.00 a gallon and running for 40-45 minutes. That should help the decision.

J_D

1 hour from one tank full - petrol $1 a litre

Engines that will last years and NEVER need tuning.

original.mb

brianquinn

go for the fg mb i gurantee you will love it, much better fun than nitro and alot tuffer

HeatFire

i've never been happier then with my 26cc engine starts everytime and easy..
once i had some engine problems so.. it just started on the first pull.. damn engine:P
it didnt suck fuel good enough..
26cc 26cc is al i say

SELWA

My Feedback: (1)

Same engine, spark plug and no tunning for over 1 year for me and 8 months for the owner of the MB BEFORE me!!! Try doing that with nitro. SOld all mine once I bought it it and now I also have a 1/5 Harm on-road as well!!

UNITED RC

You are facing the same delima that I was in about 3 weeks ago. I was looking to purchase a Nitro 10th/8th scale truck for the spring time off road bashing. I then was presented the 5th scale RC........and.......I AM SO GLAD I SELECTED THE 5HT SCALE OVER THE NITRO.

What led me to my decision:

1. ITS HUGE!
2. No more Nitro, too expensive
3. No daily hgh speed, low speed needles to play with
4. Can DRIVE anywhere and over anything, literally

After my purchase advantages:

1. ITS EVEN BIGGER THAN I EXPECTED!
2. 1-2 pulls of the cord, and the engine STARTS, and idles like a dream!
3. Running around with a Tamiya TNX, with an upgraded nitro engine....and I was leaving him behind!!!
4. While he was adj. his engine...i was still bashing around
5. LONG runtimes!!

I will NEVER run Nitro AGAIN!!!!! DONE DEAL!

URC


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wayneuk

get the gas one mate .i will never go back to nitro again !! ..

HeatFire

well once i tried to run my tank dry.. then i really noticed.. it runs forever on a tank..
and it's really true that.. when the others are filling up the tank or adjusting you are still driving around.. sometimes it even feels kinda lonely:P
you will be the only one driving at some times Savage seems like a nice truck but nothing beats the gas engines

tizdaz

I have 2 nitro trucks which are now shelved (ok i lied, i passed them down to my sons!)

Large scale is great, there only one draw back, they are big/heavy! ..unlike nitros you can carry them anywhere with no probs, its sometimes awkward with large scale, in saying this it doesnt stop me going paces. much more fun than my nitros in terms of everything else!

A little tip.. if you do walk to most places & its quite far, take your wheels off before hand & carry them in a seperate bag...i find it makes alot of difference in weight & much easier to carry

Crash_Dummy

Large Scale gas powered models > Nitro powered anything

To give you an idea. I hit the track with my Leopard and race all day. 3 pulls with the choke one and 1 pull with it off and i'm started for the day. It'll start with 2 pulls after that and i don't have to touch the tune. I haven't adjusted the carby in any way shape or form from new.
This weekend i went for a bash with my nitro buddies. Wow that was something else. Everyone had broken something within 5 minutes and that was while we were driving back and forth to get them tuned up for the day.

HeatFire

i think the only reason it takes some pull is to get the fuel into the engine..
the fuel problem i had.. started on the first pull cos i pushed the bulb many times:P like 60:P

Ive

i have owned two savages one with a wasp 26 and the other wasp 28. Fed up keep adjusting carbs all the time and refilling every ten minutes. Wish i had been introduced to large scale three years ago. would not have wasted so much cash on the nitros.
Just like running a real car fill up and go, and just take for a service when needed ie once a year.

brianquinn

I was reading the giant scale forum and read some one got into gassers to get away from nitro but the gas is just as unreliable, is this true or is that ajust a unusual problem

teamchrome

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Never had a problem.
Start engine, make a sandwich, grab a soda and it will still be at a idle.
Never tune!!!
Never made any real big adjustments.
This is too easy and VERY RELIABLE..........

RC_Feen

My Feedback: (1)

I have 3 nitro's and one Gas FG. Ever since I got the FG the nitro's just sit. Every now and then I fire up the nitro's and I get reminded why I like gasers better. I look at it this way. If you like tinkering, tuning and spending more time wrenching then driving then get a nitro R/C. If you like gas-n-go fun without all the fuss of tuning and retuning depending on the weather, get a gaser. After the initial cost of a large scale gas buggy or truck, you'll only be spending money on pump gas and 2-cycle oil unless you get bit by the alloy bug. Gas is were it's at! You can't beat it!

badz

My Feedback: (1)

I gotta bunch of Nitro's...they are a hastle sometimes....the gasers are more fun, less tuning,cheaper fuel, less work after each run, easy starting not a toy pull start with thread on it like some of the nitro's...just don't do extremely high jumps like you do with Nitro's and their fine, guess with the right alloy's they'll handle some extreme jumps but I've never seen a gaser sucessfully land a 12'+ jump or a backflip yet....but then again it's alotta fun covering the nitro's guy's rc's up with roost off the gaser

HeatFire

tell me his name and ill show him that gas is great.. even though my engine is kinda strange.. the problem is me.. beeing to lazy to fix it.. seems it works fine.. if it stops i just give it a pull and it's off again but this is with a half not working engine.. try to do that with a nitro:P

J_D

Me and my friend went looking for a bash today.

He had a 1/10th nitro buggy. I had my traveller.

Its been raining a lot lately and then been really sunny - so the grass everywhere is really long - So we went for a walk to look for a spot to bash at some nearby parks...

I DROVE my buggy to every park we went - I never shut it off, when we got there - bashed - drove it to the next park. Meanwhile his would stall and he would be trying to tune it every 5 mins.

Not to mention he had to bring spare fuel - and a glow warmer, and was refuelling it every 15 mins or so.

Once we decided to go home - I drov emy buggy home - and he didn;t wanna carry his bugggy, so he tried to drive it home, i don't think nitros like going at a walking pace - cos it would constantly stall - meanwhile my traveller would humn a long nicely - and then sit there and idle perfectly waiting for him to restart his buggy every 5 mins.

Half way home he gave up on his buggy and just decided to carry it. My buggy made it all the way back - without ever stopping and on one tank of petrol - and still had some left in the tank.

Gassers are brilliant! my friends nitro just seemed like an annoying little bee buzzing around all the time and then stalling :P

badz

My Feedback: (1)

haha...you need a trailer for your traveller to haul ya buddies nitro

J_D

at the start i had it on the roof.

Its wheels rear wheel fit in perfectly on the wing of my buggy, but it got annyoing cos i had to be careful and not brake too hard cos it would fly off :P

HeliboySA

My mate had a Savage25 3 speed with a OS 30 in , Left him in my dust with my MB. next week he turns up at the track with a MB and savage had been sold. Enough said!!!!!!!

Mad Wax

Nitro engines can be easy to start and reliable, you just need to get the idle right and buy a good engine in the first place. The Kyosho bundled POS was fit for the bin, but my OS CZ-11 was pretty easy to start and reliable, I was having tank bubbling problems but not using stock tank which cut the engine often.

Petrol cars are still much easier to start (unless the carb is duff, blocked or incorrectly setup)

quarterscalelegends

so what did you buy? Pics?