Redcat Racing Tornado Thread
#1001

Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: westby, MT
Posts: 392

Is there any chance of the blocks cracking? What about if the car gets buried in snow? It get -40F here every winter.
#1002

Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: howard beach, NY
Posts: 16,490

you could, just get the bigger ones so the reciever will fit in it, just zip tie the end where the wires come out.
#1003

Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: westby, MT
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ORIGINAL: d3d5
for balloons can i just get regular party ballons?
for balloons can i just get regular party ballons?
#1004

Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: beachwood,
OH
Posts: 513

k will get that tommarow i have 2 right now just need 1 more
#1005

Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: westby, MT
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ORIGINAL: hibityhupla
Is there any chance of the blocks cracking? What about if the car gets buried in snow? It get -40F here every winter.
Is there any chance of the blocks cracking? What about if the car gets buried in snow? It get -40F here every winter.
#1006

Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: howard beach, NY
Posts: 16,490

anything is possible but i doubt it, you may have to wrap it with aluminum foil to keep the temp up if its -40. with the body on, even if it get burried in the snow, i am sure you will get to it before snow enters inside the body.
#1007

Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: westby, MT
Posts: 392

I"ll have to try that. The weather guy is talking snow tomorrow already.
Can I lean it out a bit to make it run hotter or does that become an issue if I go to far? I'm sure at -40 it would be hard to make it overheat.
Can I lean it out a bit to make it run hotter or does that become an issue if I go to far? I'm sure at -40 it would be hard to make it overheat.
#1008

Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: howard beach, NY
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it not the leaning to run warmer, it would be the lack of lubrication from the oil in the fuel, thats why you would wrap it with foil.
#1009

Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: westby, MT
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What If you used a fuel with a high oil content, could you lean it out more then? Like then break in blend fuels?
#1010

Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: howard beach, NY
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i wouldnt think so but its a good point, i would use the same fuel you always use, check the temp, try to keep it at 180 minimum. wrap the cooling head with some aluminum and you should be ok.
#1011

Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: westby, MT
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I might have to try it one one of my smartech's just to see but I'll stick with your advice on the others.
#1012

Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: lakeland,
FL
Posts: 12

Hey i think i know the problem with my tornado but want to be sure,evry time i start it the cars tires start spinning could the clutch spring be bad or gone???[
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#1013

Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Indianapolis,
IN
Posts: 598

could be.. mine wasnt the clutch spring tho.. ur only way of tellin it takin the clutch bell off.. spring may have just come off.. but mine was one of the pins that held the clutch on..
#1014

Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: lakeland,
FL
Posts: 12

I took it off and it was gone completly!!![sm=lol.gif] what should i do just replace the spring???
#1015

Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Indianapolis,
IN
Posts: 598

the spring was gone? id just replace them both and keep the old one.. thats what id do.. but its up to you.
#1016

Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Olalla,
WA
Posts: 31

you need to find out how motor is ported some high strung 8 ports might need that rpm to make power wouldnt need it on most big block apps. there preaty much ported for low end torque hope i helped a little green1
#1017

Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Olalla,
WA
Posts: 31

ive seen new transmissions redcat stock at about 15.00
#1018

Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: London, UNITED KINGDOM
Posts: 3

Hey thanks hibityhupla,
I got some O'Donnell plugs in there (cant remember which ones offhand, but they should be hot ones). When you say its rich do you mean the HSN or LSN? I've turned the HSN 2 1/2 turns out from bottom and LSN flat with the top.
I've had to replace my stock tyres as I broke a wheel when I crashed into a garden wall and got the HPI F5 rear wheels with HPI Yokohama Geolander tyres. They look real good! Have loads more grip and handles soo much better than the stock ones.
I got some O'Donnell plugs in there (cant remember which ones offhand, but they should be hot ones). When you say its rich do you mean the HSN or LSN? I've turned the HSN 2 1/2 turns out from bottom and LSN flat with the top.
I've had to replace my stock tyres as I broke a wheel when I crashed into a garden wall and got the HPI F5 rear wheels with HPI Yokohama Geolander tyres. They look real good! Have loads more grip and handles soo much better than the stock ones.
#1019

Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: lakeland,
FL
Posts: 12

If you order a new clutchbell from redcat does it come with the spring and everything??? Also lately i am having a prblem starting it. I pull and pull and i am starting to want to just step on the THING!![:@]... but i know it will start.. cause it has easily before... i think its a fuel problem... cause i cheched the plug with my glow starter and it is heating so the plugs fine.... any suggestions would REALLY HELP!!!
by the way occasionally the car will try to start up it,ll go RARHHR and then stop it dosen,t sound like its dying the it sounds like its too rich could this bee the problem???[
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#1020

Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Burlington, ON, CANADA
Posts: 71

Can someone tell me if this will fit on my Tornado BB?
#1021

Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Burlington, ON, CANADA
Posts: 71

sorry forgot the link
http://www.hpieurope.com/piw.php?lang=en&partNo=86139
http://www.hpieurope.com/piw.php?lang=en&partNo=86139
#1022

Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: westby, MT
Posts: 392

#1023

Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: westby, MT
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ORIGINAL: donshl
Hey thanks hibityhupla,
I got some O'Donnell plugs in there (cant remember which ones offhand, but they should be hot ones). When you say its rich do you mean the HSN or LSN? I've turned the HSN 2 1/2 turns out from bottom and LSN flat with the top.
I've had to replace my stock tyres as I broke a wheel when I crashed into a garden wall and got the HPI F5 rear wheels with HPI Yokohama Geolander tyres. They look real good! Have loads more grip and handles soo much better than the stock ones.
Hey thanks hibityhupla,
I got some O'Donnell plugs in there (cant remember which ones offhand, but they should be hot ones). When you say its rich do you mean the HSN or LSN? I've turned the HSN 2 1/2 turns out from bottom and LSN flat with the top.
I've had to replace my stock tyres as I broke a wheel when I crashed into a garden wall and got the HPI F5 rear wheels with HPI Yokohama Geolander tyres. They look real good! Have loads more grip and handles soo much better than the stock ones.
#1024

Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: westby, MT
Posts: 392

ORIGINAL: blakeyboy250
If you order a new clutchbell from redcat does it come with the spring and everything??? Also lately i am having a prblem starting it. I pull and pull and i am starting to want to just step on the THING!![:@]... but i know it will start.. cause it has easily before... i think its a fuel problem... cause i cheched the plug with my glow starter and it is heating so the plugs fine.... any suggestions would REALLY HELP!!!
by the way occasionally the car will try to start up it,ll go RARHHR and then stop it dosen,t sound like its dying the it sounds like its too rich could this bee the problem???[
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If you order a new clutchbell from redcat does it come with the spring and everything??? Also lately i am having a prblem starting it. I pull and pull and i am starting to want to just step on the THING!![:@]... but i know it will start.. cause it has easily before... i think its a fuel problem... cause i cheched the plug with my glow starter and it is heating so the plugs fine.... any suggestions would REALLY HELP!!!


#1025

Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: westby, MT
Posts: 392

If anyone has the o.s18cv-rx in their buggy and really wants to make it fly buy the hpi threaded clutch bell with the 18t and 23t gears and order the redcat lightning transmission # 02076. With the stock engine I couldn't make it shift but with the o.s. the car flies. I raced my buddy who is still running his stock and I can almost beat him without shifting but after I hit second it isn't even a race anymore.