ORIGINAL: JohnnyDanger
So after my last post I started looking at that nitro car that was linked. Im really liking the look of it. I have a question about that one though. I checked out the car TowerHobbies cause they have a lot of information. It says in the info about whats needed that it needs 12AA Batteris, 8 for transmitter and 4 for receiver glow started. What exactly is a glow starter?
I have one more question about Nitro cars and this one is important. Are they loud? I ask that because I remember when I was much younger my older neighbor (older at that time) had a rc car that ran on ''gas''. It was super fast, but was also super loud. Are all nitro cars like that? If the Hyper 7 is loud then I can forget about it. My neighborhood is really quiet and dont want to be disturbning neighbors with a loud car.<font color=''#ae2b2c'' size=''+2''>
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yes they can be pretty loud
not as loud as a gas mower, but it can be pretty bad.
I once had a tuned pipe fall off a nitro and it sounded louder than a lawnmower
a glow starter is a thing you put on top of the glow plug to get the nitro to fire up. Basically put iton pull the starter cord till it fires take the starter off and run. They are also called glow warmers.
as for super fast it was probably in the 30-40's as it seems most nitros are geared for somewhere around there from the factory (well ones I've had)
Brushless RC's in all honesty depending on the type can generally hit 35mph to over 100mph(certain on-roads). Generally off roads you aim at around 35mph as after that I find they can become quite uncontrollable.
Also if the brushless model has a steel spur, and pinion the sound they make can surpass the sound of a nitro believe it or not. If they have a steel pinion on a plastic spur they can be kinda quiet
BTW nothing I've said is in scale I'm talking real MPH