jcam54

livindead----okay let me retract that last post (not the great truck part) I just looked at your gallary

GREAT PICS!

martinanderson

whats that supose to mean? I just became a member about 2 hrs ago, sorry i dont have any pics, are you serious? and what i was asking if this would damage anything I am new to cars, i have 3 airplane thought 2 rtf and 1 am building right know.

jcam54

sorry I was responding to livindeads' post above yours

ehroof

i dont think he was talking to you martin, i dont think that what you did would bother the engine, its actually a prett good idea actually. i would think that the one way would eventually fall off though.

ehroof

livindead i have had the truck for over a month and have had no problems. I have other rc vehicles from various other companies like kysosho, hpi, traxxas, tamiya etc. and i am pretty impressed with the truck. i have ran at least 10 tanks of fuel thru it. the tornado xp i bought is a different story. have had several problems, pull start broke before i even got it started, radio clitches on the throttle(steering is fine, need new radio system), the front and rear aluminum shock towers bent with a little rough driving, not jumping. Needed to work on the car to get the trans to shift to second gear(alot of trial and error)owners manual has no info on it what so ever. Worst owners manual ever printed. Sorry redcat but i found the buggy to have alot of problems.

martinanderson

hey just first want to say sorry to jcam54 been a crappy day for me and i read a few post back and completly see where i was wrong and i feel like and idiot.

Thanks for the reply ehroof, if it falls off ill let you guys know

Xeller8

I think that was fine "enginuity" on your part making up that homemade roto-start Martin!

KUDOS!![8D]

blackdogafd

hey martin nice job on the self fix it for the pull start. i have the HiMoto Syclone myself and really havent any problems with it besides breaking the frt lower arm by hitting a curb but got it fixed then the servo for the throttle went out and i'm getting a new futaba radio system for it. but hey good luck with yours though

1/10th HiMoto Syclone 4wd (3.0cc)

Kemo

You goin AM or upgradin to FM?

livindead

so for the cash it sounds to me that from this thread and the reviews that i just checked out they are pretty much what ya would expect for the price range....cool ....i mean thats a real nice price....are they really as fast as they say....oh thanks by the way

blackdogafd

just getting the futaba 2ph am radio system for right now till more $ comes in

Kemo

whatever it takes for functionality is what it takes. The radio is the #1 upgrade you can make in rc... period.

blackdogafd

yeah they are pretty dang fast!!! mine has only the single speed trans in it but does fly!! it hit 50+ with out even breakin a sweat

Kemo

single speeds are better for the track anyways. you might not get the top speed, but you wont be in between gears tryin to hit the powerband.

Xeller8

Livindead...people have been hashing it out over those speed claims for quite a while now...LOL!

I truly feel the speeds are actually in KPH and somehow it got translated wrong to MPH..

But...they ARE quite fast!

blackdogafd

hey does anyone know whats a better air filter for the HiMoto Syclones? instead of the 2 piece sponge filter that came with it???

Xeller8

Motorsaver.

blackdogafd

cool i'll have to check into that later.. but anyway if i got the speed figures backward sorry, all i know is when i bought the thing it said it'll do 60+ mph but if i'm wrong correct me please

Kemo

if your outter diameter of your carb intake is 13-14 mm, this one will go right on it http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...?&I=LXHBX4&P=M

Xeller8

No Blackdog...YOU didn't get it wrong....whoever translated everything to english and put that on the box and on websites did...in my opinon that is and it makes pefect sense to think the way I do about it...

For example...1 KPH = .63 MPH...so if you do the math (using 60 KPH as your number) it comes out to 37.8 MPH and I will definitely believe these trucks are capable of pushing 40 MPH or maybe even a tad more depending on tuning...fuel...weather conditions..etc.

blackdogafd

ahhh got ya!! well all i know is that i had my buddy who is a cop out here use his radar gun and clocked the thing at 55.7 mph so, in my opinion thats plenty fast lol!!

blackdogafd

oh yeah i do have the syclone buggy so thinkn about gettn the truck as well soon too, cause these things are sweet

Xeller8

Oh..O.K....I was gonna sheit if you did that with the truck!

55.7 eh?....you weren't running downhill or anything were ya?...lol.

blackdogafd

nah thats was on a brand new flat parking lot lol... thank god no cars were around!!

but thats what the gun showed when i ran the buggy but i still wanna give another try once i get my radio system in so i can actually run it again but once i do i'll try and get a picture up here to show!!

Xeller8

COOL!

My helper here at my shop is a deputy sheriff and we were going to clock my 'Cane XP but then we got dumped on with about 2 feet of snow this past weekend so it's going to have to wait a while...I'm anxious to see what it will do though!!