Ive run nitro for about 4 years in helis an about a year in boating an am in the process of repowering my boats in all brushless. My reasons for this may be something to consider;
1. Maintence, nitros require meticulous (spelling
) care an handling, if your a new boater this can be tedious at best
2. Tuning, a nitro engine runs night an day differently based on a myriad of situations; i.e. temperature,humidity, just cause it can....
requiring you to be pretty adept to tuning any motor before you can find the "sweet spot" or heck just get it to run
3. An area you can get dirty, I live in a shoeboxed size apartment much smaller than my previous house an no longer have an area I can properly clean,maintain, an lube my motors without smelling up the whole place (infuriates the wife)
4. Plethora of proper engine tools, greases, cleaners, additives, fuel storage, glow plugs, starters an many more "nitro" bits an pieces
Now let me say these are not negatives, just needed when you run nitro
Conversley electric motor running has things needed also;
1. Proper battery charger and balancers, maintaining your batteries is just as important as after run in a nitro block
2. When your battery packs are done, essentialy your done
3. Boy do you need to know some math, maybe easy for some but my last algebra test was many moons ago
In my limited usage of brushless/lipo in my boats Id say the whole shot like
Diegoboy was saying is in fact true. But put two SV27s both on plan an full out the differences will boil down to driver an running gear setups solely.
But put a big block like a .45 an say a serious NEU motor with some juicy lipos in a race, Id say anybodies guess as to who would win
Boy Ive rambled on a tad bit must be the beer
...
In conclusion if you have enough money an know how you can make either "
fast"
Just depends on what floats your boat
Thank you for your time an hope this claifies some, but probably just muddied the water.
ALL RIGHT ALL RIGHT enough cliches!
-Wayne