C_Watkins

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I like the list, in "full scale" context... and I agree with a lot of your and Will R's sentiments, "in principle".

However... I have to wonder why in the heck you two are over here in "Paint and Detailing"
ragging on these guys for coming up with a good (IMHO) way to "simulate", for "Paint OR Detail",
an NOS system. I mean, come on guys... don't you two have anything better to do?

I'd be right there with you, if this was the "Performance and Tuning" section for cars, here on RCU.
But it isn't

Homebrewer

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Yep, you are correct. I never paid sufficient attention to realize this was a paint and ricing forum.

Gotta go, busy painting the letters NOS on my scuba tank for my Hyundai

raceme

i think somebodys parents didnt buy him enough toys when he was little.....kinna funny cause i think he really doesnt have anything better to do..yea you see he talks all this stuff but i bet you he still went to the movies and bought tickets for fnf1 and fnf2.

Speedmunkey

I think he just needs more fiber in his diet.. Try some bran muffins man!

ANYWAY, now that the ugliness has left the thread... Has anyone done this yet? I wanna see how they turned out. As I said, I saw some on a web page once, but the guy didn't do anything beyond putting them in a bracket and attaching some sort of braided wire (looked like he stripped some Wet Noodle, epoxy coated it and used that for his lines).. Not great, but clever..

budweiser505

i wos lookin around an found a tmaxx kinda nos kit for around £50 on modelsportuk.com, and was wonderin if it would work ?

mr-rccrazy

Nitrous oxide does nothing for r/c engines because the fuel itself is just as potent or more than nitrous oxide, it consists of methyl alchohol, nitro methane, and castor/synthetic lubrication, the first two ingredients are very potent, hence why r/c engines develop so much power for so little displacement. Plus, if the nitrous kit for an r/c did work, (doubtful, not any noticeable diff) it would burn out glow plugs faster than you could think. The answer is no, it would not really work that well.

dorilx

Homebrewer, for god sake, this IS a painting-detailing-blah blah blah, what on earth do you want...no wonder you have such an astronomic msg number - if you bash anyone who thinks different from you in every subject...come on, man. grow up. the guy suggested an idea for a style related mod, he never said anything about REAL improvements. I can sympathize with your opinion on ricers and such, but this is MY opinion, why be so judgemental about everything? live and let live, for cryin out loud. and you sat there and made that list (which could be funny if only I was lifeless enough to have the time to read it completly), which is longer than the whole darn thread, for what purpose? what point were you proving there, other than the mere fact that you would rather waste your time on bashing other people's ideas than coming up with an original idea of your own. dude, take a chill pill or something. if the RC hobby was just about performance and nothing about style, then why the hell does anyone even paint their lexan bodies, or why don't they make the whole car plain black plastic, etc etc.
gees, talk about being heavy. it's a HOBBY, not a religion.

Speedmunkey

"The answer is no, it would not really work that well. "

Actually.. Back when I ran nitro and cared about such things, I had a link to a site on which a T-Maxx had been modded to include a "NOS" system. It worked via the third channel and it actually worked. The guy had it on a dyno and when the system was triggered, the rpm jumped like mad. It was most impressive. I can't comment on the glow plug life though, but I agree with you that they would be short lived.

ranger1

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homebrewer i think needs another hobby besides bashing any thing that other members have on there minds.and can't believe you had that much time to write the post you posted. i myself came up with this idea a couple of months ago and mounted this on my maxx bed with mounts i fabricated from alum. and fake fuel tube that runs from the tank to the engine area under the body and it looks great. and have had many positive comments about it .but does nothing for the truck but look good. but that is no reason to bash me or anyone else for trying to make there truck look the way thay want it to.please homebrewer have a little compasion for other members for the idea's they think of for making there trucks look the way thay want. i am not bashing you in any way because i have respect for other members but please have an open mind about members idea's. thank you for reading. ranger1.

Mastec

Keep up the good work Escalade [sm=thumbup.gif][sm=thumbup.gif] Just try to ignore the people who try to bring you down. Maybe he is just so upset he didn't think of it first. LOL When people add touches of this and that to make them look like full size autos it is so cool. Friends used to think it was dumb to add yellow thread to plastic car model engines to look like spark plug wires, till I won 1st place in a show. Keep doing what you're doing and don't stop.

humanmachinehead

here's an attempt...

adamkerrnz

Whats wrong with being a ricer?

My mum gave me her diesel automatic toyota caldina and ive put mags and a new sterio system in the thing, there are petrol heads and there are people who just like to play with the look of their car, i am one of those, although when it comes to my r/c's i dabble in both. why do people hassle someone who just likes other things than what they like? its f***ing bulls**t ignorance.[>:]

rileyrat

Just wanted to say, GREAT IDEA! Escalade. I'm sure these guys would flame me if they seen my R/C or my real car. My '67 fastback has lots of GT 500 body parts and the engine is the 5.4L out of a totaled Lightning and I am currently working on several hop-up's like a nitrous system, huh imagine that. As far as my R/C goes its gonna have working head/tail lights, neons, and a Supra body that is similar to the one on The Fast and The Furious. If you really started looking into these "ricers" you would know that there are street legal Civics running 12's in the quarter mile. While there is no replacement for displacement I find it impressive what they are doing with these imports. BTW for all the guys that think torque is the only important part of being fast then you're lost. Toruqe is whats gonna pull you off the line. Hp, along with proper gearing, is whats gonna allow your car to reach those top speeds needed to finnish off the last part of the 1/4 mile. How about tryin to learn something before bashing every person that likes to race imports and learning about the acctual culture that is behind this import scene. Most of the people into this are doing so because its constructive and keeps them out of trouble other than a few tickets. I can only hope that my son follows in my current ideas of entertainment rather than my old ones like drinking, and causing random general trouble.

FlyingMist

I like this idea and may incorporate it into the peterbilt body shell I just picked up today, though im not sure if it's going to be small enough.

The only NOS tanks I've seen have been in the trunks of Hondas that come into our dealership and they are rather small, maybe 1 1/2 to 2' long, so the scale may be off a bit with a co2 cartridge (atleast with the co2 cartridges I have seen around here), if anyone mounts one to their R/C, please post a picture for scale.

Thanks,

humanmachinehead

you have a point Flyingmist, refering to the ones u have seen, but some guys around my house have some huge tanks, like the size on scuba gear, so i guess it would all depend on the tank you're trying to replicate, i tryed a big one, though i didn't put decals on it

mjcole

this post is not ment to offend any1 so dont go mad at me

but from various forums that i use alot of americans like to diss other countrys cars(not evry american)
wether they are japanese european or from anywhere else

these ppl are so stupid its beyond me to understand ther logic

yes american cars have big engines with lots of torq but they are also very heavy and most aprt from the gt40 and the saleen sr7
dont like to go round corners

yes japanese cars have small engines with smaller amounts of torq than american cars but they tend to be lighter so dont need all that much torq

and homebrewier what do you drive dont tell me a camero most proberbly
now that has to be one of the most horrid cars i have ever seen
much worse than some of the ricer cars i have seen and i have seen some bad ricer cars

so next time hommbrewier dont go runing your mouth off with out knowing the facts
and the facts are evry car is a good car to some 1 jus coz you dont like somthing it dosent mean that its crap

and to the lad who had the nos bottle idea

good idea that i might use it my self

rileyrat

Wow mjcole, thats exactly what I was trying to say. I left out the part about cornering and thats a very valid point. America builds the fastest strait-line cars in the world but we have only built a few cars that have the turning ability of a Japanese car. And lets not forget the true road machine builders in the world like Germany, Italy, and Brittish (seeing as the Noble M12 can pull more lateral G's than any other street car on the face of the earth they definatly need to be mentioned). In drag racing America is the promised land but Europe is all knowing in the total performance field. Ohh and mjcole, the Camaro lovers like throwing it in the face of the mustang drivers that nearly every year after the Cobra Jets the Camaro has been faster in a strait line, funny how they leave out the fact that the Mustang has NEVER failed to beat the Camaro on a true road corse.

mjcole

ahh yes british cars

i dont know how many times ive been told that a viper would beat any brithish car ever in the history of the world

thats jus silly

we have the mclaren f1
and the tvr cerbra speed 12
tvr tuscan t440r
mg xpower
also thrust 2 sonic booming all the way to the land speed record

i know these are some of our fastest cars and ther are proberbly loads of american cars just as fast and faster(except for thrust 2) but ppl like hommbrewer still think a viper is faster

rileyrat

Yeah those are some awsome cars. Us Americans are bad about only looking at a couple of stats, namely the 0-60 mph and the 1/4 mile times. When Carol Shelby decided to make a car to do both accelerate and handle, he grabbed a 427 c.i. American made power plant and crammed it into a tiny Brittish roadster. This was the birth of the A/C Cobra. Yet most people over here have no clue who engineered the suspention, chassis, and body for that car. The only thing that was changed in the suspention was stiffer springs to hold that beastly motor up and keep the car behaving half way decently in corners. I feel that we have hit a low that we are just comming out of in car manufacturing and the Brittish are hitting an all time high. Germany and Italy just continue to improve on seemingly perfect ideas. While Japan keeps getting the most out of 4-6 cyl. motors and leaving the rest of us puzzled as to how. This is todays world car market, no country is dominating any one thing about them. Another example of someone crossing manufactures is the almighty McLaren F1, check out the really trick BMW power plant that helps that car reach its unneeded 236 mph top speed.

mjcole

ther is a tv program in britain called top gear
they are the only tv program in history to be allowed to drive alesi's 92 ferrari grand prix car the 1 he won the champion ship

any way they have the own race track and they test out a few cars each week and keep a record of whats the fastest

they have tested evrything like

koniggsegg
lambo gallado/ murculargo or how ever you spell it
ferrari about 5 of them
porche evry 1 going
tvr
noble
pagini zonder
the list is to long

any way untill 2 weeks ago it was all very close at the top

lambo gallado and it big bruv murculargo
koniggsegg
porche gt3
and a few others where all on 1:23 for the fastest lap

then the new mclaren mercades took to the track it kick serious butt
and got a 1:20 a whole 3 sec faster than all the other leading cars

then the got the new porche carrera gt out 1:19

i think the germans have just raised the bar abit
with a little help from the brits in the shape of mclaren

all these cars are driven by the same driver called the stig you never get to see his face coz he allways wears a helmut with blacked out visor one day i hope to find out who he is coz he is my idol

rileyrat

I have seen that show. Its not regular programming here but they do use it to fill empty slots when they have nothing else. It is a really good show, that driver is sick. Your lucky, us in the states get the cars long anfter they have been streeted in the U.K. The big problem we have is the emissions, ours are much harsher than yours. Man I would love to get over there and see those cars before they get desicrated by U.S. emissions.

mjcole

i feel sorry for yas coz yous dont have many skylines in the usa

in my opinion the skyline is legandery just like the escort cosworth

am lucky enouth to be getting an r32 gtr in a few months

am going to tune it to about 400bhp

skliffy

not getin off topic very much r we lads..
lol

flak monkey

mjcole....i can tell you who the stig is....

Perry McCarthy. Do a search for him...famous racing bloke IIRC.

Enjoy...

ko

hey i just wanted to throw this in here...

instead of making a non functional nos bottle for the car... try this...

take the bottle, paint it up like a nos bottle, widen the hole on the tip (used cartridge) so you can thread a fuel line fitting in it securely, then convert it into a boost bottle for the engine... not only will you have the look of the nos bottle with a fuel line going to the engine case but it will actually be functional as a boost bottle...

just an idea

peace