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Go X10 Speed Racer!
BoomZilla writes ""Speedy" Shayne Barr races Nitro
RS4 remote controlled Racecars competitively. These cars are nitro fueled, 1/10
scale, and they can go as fast as fifty miles per hour. To make his racing more
interesting, he has hooked up an XCam2 to his racecar so
that not only can he race the car, he can also view the race from the car's
viewpoint after the race is over. Speedy's posted a number of videos on his website where he describes the
construction process. The vid where his
car winds up on its roof is most entertaining. Go Speed(y) Racer!"
According to WMP: Indeo® video 4.4 Decompression Filter
I do hardly any editing, and I run XP.
They're Intel Indeo Video 4.1
I had to run the Indeo installer to get the video to play on my system.
While the .avi played fine with QT6, the quicktime file did not.
If you change the filetype and creator of the quicktime file to:
VfW¥
TVOD
they'll work fine with Quicktime.
__ Someday, but not this morning, I'll finally learn to use the preview button.
Of course since the HPI nitro rs4 takes a .12 engine a quick search through towerhobbies shows that one can get as much a 1.2 horse power engine that weighs something like 7 ounces. Further one would see that the shell is painted lexan plastic. Putting these two things together you can easily get a nitro rs4 to hit the 50 MPH mark, indeed my nitro TC3 will nearly reach 60 MPH with a OS cv-r and a two speed clutch. So not only do you get a car that looks like it goes fast, it does go fast. (for someone that doesn't know typicall rc nitro fuel is 20% nitro methane, 20% lubricant (oils), and 60% alchohol so it's quite combustable. The two stroke engines in use typically have an effective RPM range of ~4000 idle to 35000-45000 top end for race quality motors)
------- Sorry about the spelling, I suffer from two problems. Dyslexia makes it difficult to spell well, lazy makes it
well.. here's at least a pic of his cool little RC car. I copied it to my website since his looked like it was really slow. so if it does go down at least you can still see what the car looks like (unless you guys slashdot me simply because of that one image.. lol..)
I used to be into racing electric R/C trucks, but I have a friend that races an HPI Nitro RS4 like the ones on the site competatively. They are VERY fast. They can out-accellerate anything else on wheels just due to the laws of physics, and the gearing on my friend's RS4 is set up to top out at 60 MPH. Any more than that is pointless because you need to be able to see the car whiz on by. My point is you should KNOW something about what you're talking about before you start talking smack. 1.2 horsepower in a tiny little car is one HELL of a power to weight ratio that not even a Ferrari F50 could match.
"Dancing is the vertical expression of a horizontal desire" --Robert Frost
>To the point of ADDING weight to the cars if needed.
Keep in mind that NASCAR/CART remove as much weight as possible. Then they go back and add weight to specific places on the car to make it handel properly. By doing this, they can get the weight lower on the car to decrease the effect of centripital force twisting the body out of a turn.
I'd rather you do it wrong, than for me to have to do it at all.
yes there is a minimum weight. ROAR sanctions US races (not sure about outside of US). Roar rules can be found here, I don't know the minimum weight right offhand though (and it would matter what class you are running also)
------- Sorry about the spelling, I suffer from two problems. Dyslexia makes it difficult to spell well, lazy makes it
It was clocked at around 26mph with the stock motor. Since then I've put a 12 turn racing motor in that boosted the speed up into the high 30's roughly. I haven't been able to get it radar clocked again, but I do know it will catch up to and pass cars driving down the street easily if they're doing around 25-30.
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