nitro _ burner

I was just wondering would it be posible to produce a RC car that has no gears or a 1to1 gear ratio?? if you could it would be insane fast!!

Philster

Gears help --- they don't hurt. Most engines can't provide enough power for 1:1 ratios. It would take 45 seconds to reach top speed on a level surface and most engines would overheat, not climb hills and never go off road.

MonkeyFist

Are you talking gas or electric? Gas/nitro you gotta have gears, for reasons like Philster said. Electric cars you could do it with, basically pan cars are direct drive.

hands without shadows

You could do it with a slow or high torque motor, Ive seen it done somewhere.

Philster

The OP's name is nitro burner, so I was referring to nitro engines.

nitro _ burner

I was refering to nitro but i do love mini elect's, so why cant you do it in a nitro?

ttoks

nitro engine usually make there power at about 30,000 rpm, and do not have enough torque to run a car direct drive, most have a reduction of about 10-25:1 from the engine to wheels.

mindwreck

over at rczone brushless, a guy was making a buggy with 2 brushless outrunners shafted directly into the diffs. each motor was pumping more than like 1000 watts of power.

nitro _ burner

i bet that screamed