ok me and my friends were watching my other friend drive his truck...so someone had the idea to throw a snow ball at it and so everyone did lol... a snowball hit the cooling head like 2 or 3 times so few cause it was going preety fast i couldnt even peg the the thing..... but anyways he claims it could screw up his whole engine and is saying its broken could a little snowball actually screw up the engine i know this sounds odd but please help

It could very well could. If the snowball were to hit intake and water got into the carb it would really **** it up. Some sand or salt could be in the snow and it would smoke the engine. But if the body was on and he doesnt have holes in it everywhere the possiblies are slim.

yea the body was on and it only got on the top of the cooling head and he was like freaking out about and is all mad but he drove it the next day and it was fine but he is claiming is broken when it run the same but he noticed a screw broke on the cooling head from the cold ness of it but i think its when he drove his truck under a ford car at almost full speed and it got stuck on the boddy and cooling head

There is a danger that the rapid cooling from a snowball could crack the heatsink. But if he's not insured and he hits a truck again and the owner sees, boy is he in deep ....

ok i will tell him about that and thankyou for the info

i think if people threw stuff at my car i would run them over lol but seriously folks i you dont want to rapidly cool aluminium when its hot it becomes brittle.

this is his friend that was pissed about the snow on the truck. the snow did get on the airfilter and the airfilter was drowned in water. i told them about the cooling head could crack cause of the rapid cooling but none of them believed me. i didnt hit a truck grahama89, i hit a ford tarus. the truck went in the back and got stuck on the gas tank and lower control arm. no damage to the car or my truck. it only happened cause i couldnt get my truck to turn ( steering servo screw was gone that held on the horn on) and i couldnt stop in time cause i only had stock brakes at the time. the car was parked and they never even saw it happen. it took awhile to get the truck out cause i had to push all the shocks down to get it to come loose of the lower control arm of the car. the body only got a couple of scratches.

brad, i forgot to say, it was not fine after the death by snowball attacks. lol. its reciever is now like fried cause snow got in it. the snow that you all said hit the tires hit the shocktowers (shocktowers next to radio box on savage). brad you did hit it. all of you dumped snow on it and were taking it around carrying it by the bumpers with the engine running. alex also pushed it down a steep hill (luckly i had shifted to reverse while the truck was being carried to the hill and i floored it in reverse as soon as he started to push it down the hill) and you all were dumping snow on it also, you all were just not throwing snow balls on it.

sounds like your friends are a bunch of D I C K S !!!!

yea.

you have driven it in the rain so many time and not covered it up so your reciever was bound to go just leaving out in the rain and you have messed up my car from a few weeks ago when you kept hitting it for your own enjoyment [] i knew about the aluminum cooling thing so only went for the tires to make it jump or stup but owell

ok t max at 20 paces !

i didnt hit your buggy for enjoyment, except for when i parked on it.

lol. So abusive![X(] If that car had a personality, it'd probably scream at y'all. lol.

i wouldnt care if anyone threw a snowball at my tires too slow it down now if anyone hit other stuff yes i would be mad that why i only hit the tries and paul when you hit the buggy everytime you laughed with a joyful smile

LOL. you said that funny brad. read it over. i didnt laugh. i just tried to miss your car, you fliped my truck a few times also. i was mostly trying to park on you and that kind of stuff. i wont do it anymore. but it is kind funny to see a truck to be able to just drive up and park on another car with no effort of hitting the gas to get on it.

I've rammed my LX in the snow a few times, no big thing




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Do your friends snow balls have laser sights on? If they can hit a WOT buggy with a sb to slow it down, man they got strong arms.

no it was a truck and he took off the rear wheel drive so it went really slow cause it kept spinning its tires and it was going up a hill so the snowballs rerally slowed it down but my and vizaracer's other friends were dumping snow all over it thats what i was meaning in the title

Look 4 new freinds, the guy's your hanging with sound like real ass holes, this hobby cost enough without some wankers trying to hit your kit. try death by base ball bat on there kit, see how much they laugh then. We had problems down here in Antwerpen(Belgium) with heroin junkies trying to wreck and steal stuff but whilst I was working in France I bought a spanish trunchon and beat the crap out of them, problem solved. Violance does help SOMETIMES but it just doent feel good. Try to have fun.

lez....this is a 5 year old thread mate. Those "kids" are probably in college or working now....getting together on weekends having a laugh about how they messed each other's rc cars up when they were 'kids'...