Anyone got one of these yet?

The $430 engine can run top speed of 75mph! Upcoming engine upgrade will top 80mph...

always wanted one of these......

http://remotecontrolvehicles.com/hpi...0mm/E1457.html

Check out the video on the webpage....72.4 mph! What would be funny/interesting is to see this RCV run against a full-sized G35 on a quarter mile track.......

doc

 

How about a race to 60mph becasue the G gets past 80mph in the 1/4 mile. Very cool still.

 

that's pretty cool.

 

that thing will never do 75mph... it'd be hard pressed to do the advertised 25mph. i race electric rc sedans pretty competetively, and our purpose built high power cars will barely beak 50mph with very very tall gearing.

 

I have that body but haven't built the car yet. Thanks for the link.

 

then how do you explain the radar gun reading?

 

what video and what radar gun reading? the link above is to a pos electric car. if it's a nitro car you guys are talking about, that's very possible then.

edit: you must mean this car in this link http://remotecontrolvehicles.com/hpi...0mm/E1457.html

edit again: wierd, for some reason, i copied the link to the nitro car and it still sends to the electric version.

yes, the nitro should have no problem doing 75mph. i thought you were talking about the basic electric rated at 25mph.

 

i race rc car every year and i can tell you guys a story. Last yr, a cop stop by and use his radar gun to temp our rc car, on the straight road, it show 80mph and that suprised the cop. HAHA
well, we were running 1/8 scale, means this car is bigger and had a bigger engine than the one u guys seening right now, these are 1/10 scale, but it can still hit up to 60-70mph

 

I think I need to get myself one of these.

 

yea them nitro cars can hit 60+ if they are built to... their power to weight ratio is better than a ferrari or lambo... it would SMOKE the G from a stop.. and since 1/4 is fairly long in r/c terms i dunno...

 

I don't know about that RC car but the radio is total POS. If you want to go fast, stick with gas powered because there is no way electric will get up to 75 mph. Back in the day I used to race my Kyosho Optima 4WD with chain drive, I'd be lucky if I could hit 30 mph with tall gearing, fiberglass chassis, and aftermarket motor. IIRC, Trinity motors were the sh*t back in the day. The RS540 is pretty much standard with any entry level RC car - basically POS. I may have to get back into RC cars for fun.

 

nowaday, even electronic rc car can hit about 60-65 mph.(Im SURE) Well , not 80mph yet... i THINK.

 

yes, the video link on the webpage is to the video of the nitro version, not the electric.

The nitro version is clocked at 73.4 MPH.

You would have to be a very skilled driver to handle that car at those speeds....otherwise your mini-G35 coupe bodykit would sustain some serious roadrash everytime you crashed or had it run over after you accidently drove it into traffic....lol

what's also cool is the 350Z Nismo version. and you can even further customize it with blue underbody lighting, head/tail lights, license plate neon and antenna neon.....


doc

 

it takes a purpose built electric rc car to get that fast... not something you could drive on any kind of regular street or parking lot, or even go buy at a hobby shop. on a big, wide, smooth, banked oval course (think bycicle race course) it can be done with a car that is basically a flat chassis that does nothing but hold batteries (lots, like 20 cells) and a motor.