Beating 1/1 scale car with an RC?
02-09-2006, 02:36 PM
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Beating 1/1 scale car with an RC?
Is it possible to build a smaller RC car/truck (1/10, 1/18, etc.) that could regularly beat a full-scale automobile in a race? Flat-out on level pavement with no turns or anything, a distance of about 1/8 mile? My only experience with "ridiculous" levels of speed is a mamba-powered mini-T that can hit 40-50mph, maybe 60mph top if you have the space in which to run it. Does the speed scale up well with size... ie would a similarly built 1/10th with a brushless be able to hit anywhere near 90+ mph? Or do you start running into a 'wall' at a certain speed and is beating a full-scale car in a race just a pipe dream? My fastest 1/10th scale right now is a buggy with a 19-turn, and I don't think it goes much above 30mph on pavement.
02-09-2006, 04:20 PM
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RE: Beating 1/1 scale car with an RC?
A pancar on the fastest hacker of feigeo(spelling?) running lipos will probably only beat cars that top out at nowhere over 80-90mph. Unless you can somehow get a custom wound 2-3 turn motor, i don't think you'll go above 100 as the worl record 111mph was set on either a 1.5 or 2.5 turn motor(not quite sure).
02-09-2006, 05:29 PM
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RE: Beating 1/1 scale car with an RC?
A tether car of any kind can be made 200 mph. Not many people around this section like nitro, and most of have beaten nitros with our electrics.
02-09-2006, 05:58 PM
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RE: Beating 1/1 scale car with an RC?
The only real RC nitro tops out at 96.5 MPH
Fastest RC electric was on a 2 turn custom brushless running 24 custom cells...
Fastest RC electric was on a 2 turn custom brushless running 24 custom cells...
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RE: Beating 1/1 scale car with an RC?
Fastest electric car was the team associated rc10L3 (i think) at a speed of 111mph...
yep. here is the article
"The 2003 Guinness Book of World Records lists the fastest-ever top speed of a radio-controlled car as 111 mph (178.63 km/h) set by Cliff Lett of Associated Electrics. Lett, a Team Associated professional driver and one of the designers and developers of the aforementioned RC10, set the record with a heavily modified Associated RC10L3 touring car at Irwindale Speedway on January 13, 2001. More can be found about the record at: Need For Speed"
yep. here is the article
"The 2003 Guinness Book of World Records lists the fastest-ever top speed of a radio-controlled car as 111 mph (178.63 km/h) set by Cliff Lett of Associated Electrics. Lett, a Team Associated professional driver and one of the designers and developers of the aforementioned RC10, set the record with a heavily modified Associated RC10L3 touring car at Irwindale Speedway on January 13, 2001. More can be found about the record at: Need For Speed"
