Back from work, and my new hobby

[Joe]

Well after about a good solid month of late nights, or atleast working from home very late at night on project related items, my main project I am working on was successfully implemented last weekend.

A lot more work to come, but atleast the main and most risky part is over.

Now I have time to work a bit more on the site and get the goodies posted that everyone has been working on

Besides for work, the thing I have been getting back into as a way to escape from the computer world (cause trust me.. last thing I want to do when I get home from working 14 hours on a PC at work, is to work on a PC at home), is R/C stuff... I have been on an almost 4 year hiatus from my R/C addiction. A few years ago I played with my R/C cars a bit, but really left everything for dead since. Well between a Co worker/Friend, and Me, I have successfully been pulled back into the addiction and worse than ever

For those geeks who are also a bit into R/C heres my lil listing for ya :

I recently purchased a HPI Nitro RS4-3SS to replace my heavilty modified Nitro RS4 which was taken apart and well sits in a pile in the corner now. ( just a pile of carbon fiber, and aluminum.) my co worker and I bougth the cars at the same time.

I built up a Ofna 1/8th scale chassis I got in a trade last year. It used to be a Ofna Blazer, but it is now a Ofna Ultra LX Pro with the parts on it wiht a OS RZ-V99B engine (insane lil plant). My Co worker just bought a Ofna Ultra MBX Pro and we have had quite a fun time running these things at local construction sites. I had an Ofna Ultra Worlds GT back in the day before I sold it.

I have a Associated RC10GT from back in the day, still runs like a bat out of hell... Damn pull start is toast though.

and a Kyosho Nitro Blizzard snow cat from back in the day

All except for the snow cat are in running condition, I need an ORing for the Snow cat to get it up and running.

I dunno, this may be of absoluely no interest to anyone but me, but hell its my site I should be able to post some fun stuff outside of cooling on it hehe...

Heres a pic of the Nitro RS4/3 and my Ofna 1/8th scale:

[nOv1c3]

Great looking 1/8th pavement car ..What fuel mixture you using 80% nitro mhaha hehe


I love RC i have had at one time or the other everything from cars to sail planes ...I have not been in the hobby for a few years but after seeing your picture i sure would like to get back in it

[bigben2k]

Dido.

I'm more into scale models of RC boats, and I'm working on a 2' KGM Bismarck, but it's been on hold for at least 3 years

Otherwise, planes is the way to go: check out RCM magazine.

[Joe]

the onroad car ( nitro RS4) is a 1/10th scale not an 1/8th but yeh... its sort of addictive... Really its my excuse to get ouy of driving AutoX's, track days, RallyX and IceX's in my real car. After killing a 20k$ car, and almost die'n at an ice race, I am shifting to more sensible hobbys. R/C is killer in-expensive compared to building up a real car, and theres no chance in me die'n if I crash it into a curb

edit: ben

Yeh I owned 1 plane, and 1 boat before also. I crashed the plane on its 6th flight, and the boat... well it was a fairly low end Traxxas NitrtoVee with the auto start thing... was just for fooling around. I spilled some 40% nitro in the hull and forgot to wash it out... well it ate a hole through the hull rather fast.


The fuel of choise for my cars is Byrons 30% nitro.

[JSimmons]

I used to build static models, but now I simply collect diecast.

http://www.paddedwall.org/diecast

In the top-most frame, click pictures, and you can see most of the collection.

[Joe]

those GT40's are Hot!!! nice looking collection!

[Cyco-Dude]

Originally posted by JSimmons
I used to build static models, but now I simply collect diecast.

http://www.paddedwall.org/diecast

In the top-most frame, click pictures, and you can see most of the collection.

yes, but you cant play with a die-cast

i got a couple electric R/Cs myself...havent played with them in awhile tho. maybe its time i dusted 'em off

[Raccoon]

Cool, nice looking cars, I have a rc10gt Plus, it is fun, i still get my butt kicked in races every weekend though

[Joe]

Well raced with my bud all day today from like 9:30am to 7:30pm... broke my RS4 baddly a few times. snapped the front diff twice, busted a front C hub, cracked a read upright hub and burned up a nice set of R Compound belted 24mm tires/rims.

overall a very fun day... I even torqued a dog bone in the front of the car a few degree's

then I went mudding wiht my Ofna hehe

[Raccoon]

Wow, 10 hours of racing, nice... how much fuel?

You had previously mentioned 2 gallons in 1 day goal.

[Joe]

didnt get near there, we used about 2/3 of a gallon. His 1/8th Ofna was down with a blown center diff from a few days ago... so those fuel guzzlers werent run except for mine for 1 tank. Our Rs4's were run quite a bit, but I crashed mine into a edge of a curb a few times and caused quite a bit of dammage. It was a development area, so the streets had only the base layer of asphalt on them... so there was about an inch rise in the concrete curb in relation to the asphalt ( so the transition from street to curb side before the actual curb was a 1" mini wall...) .. well suprisingly a object 1" tall does a **** load of damage to these cars

just placed an order to Tower Hobbies for 120$ worth of replacment/hop up parts. for the HPI and the Ofna. ( hardening my center diff in the ofna to protect against the failure my bud had with his)

Man I need to wear sunscreen in the future, I burned up nicely today myself

[Giblet Plus!]

Nice looking RS4.

I've got a .049 Piper Cub and a Kyosho Mini-Z with a bunch of hop-ups.