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I'm not even gonna apologize for staying away so long. Just that by the time I get home from work, bla bla bla (or yadda yadda yadda) The funnest thing I've been doing lately is I fired up my RC10-GT which if you don't know, is a kick ass R/C car. Or I should say 1/10 scale, 2 wheel drive, nitro-powered stadium racing truck to be more exact. Team Associated has been one of the most consistent race winners in the R/C world for almost 15 years now. I started with the RC10 electric buggy about ten years or so ago and graduated up to the gas powered truck a couple years later. I know most "adults" think they are toys for kids, but they are really impressive. They are just like scaled down cars. They transmission is very complex, the suspension is incredibly adjustable, you have to give them front end alignments, and so on. It takes a good ten to twelve hours to build the kit, and it's comprised of a couple hundred very small and precisely manufactured components. And the whole setup when I bought it 8 years ago was almost seven hundred dollars, so they are definitely not for kids, or not kids that live in my zip code! Anyway, my truck had been sitting for about three years, and I wasn't sure it would even start. Well. lemme tell you, it starts, and still is faster then just about any truck I've seen. When I first got it I made sure to get a screaming engine, the fastest one out (within reason, of course) and it makes a huge amount of power. It's really hard to go straight, if you gun the throttle it just spins out, and it's hard keeping the front wheels on the ground! Here's a quick video I took fooling around in the yard when the kids were up a couple weekends ago. The video is jumpy as I converted it to 10 fps so the file would be smaller, otherwise it's too big to download. Anyway, here's the movie of my truck look at how it kicks up a trail of dirt as I go up the driveway, and keep in mind I can't even come close to top speed as you need a lot of room for that. For the setup I'm running it should go close to 50 MPH top speed! And here's a cool page that gives you an idea of the some minor hop ups you can do, the pictures here are great, click on some of them for a very detailed view- RC10-GT bulletproofing OK, I'm really beat, let me get going and I'll try and take some before and after pics of my truck so you can see what I've been doing lately. posted @ 10:49 PM EST [link] [Karma: 3 (+/-)] |
