Ultimate RC Speed Event!!

[PandaBear]

For the Melbourne fellas, headsup that the local chaps
are going to be running at the Coburb Velodrome.

Basically its an all-out speed event on the banked oval track!!

Saturday 1st of March.

Velodrome Details & Form

[jamiekulhanek]

How do they measure speed?

If life is a waste of time, and time is a waste of life, then let’s get wasted and have the time of our lives!!

[PandaBear]

Its a velodrome, so I’d guess they’ll know how long each lap is… I think its about 250m, and a 12 second lap is considered ‘good’.

Or if the magazine guys are present then they’re likely to bring a radar gun too, or else some of the other folk have a tennisball radar as well.

[PandaBear]

1st March got rained out, so it was moved to 15th March… which was Last Weekend!!

Fastest car around that track on Saturday was clocked at 104km/h by radar…

[DaveF]

How big was it? 1:10 scale?

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My track – http://community.webshots.com/album/58669595eliwuK

[Shypo]

104km/h by a R/c car!!!!!
HOLY CRAP DUDE.

that is absoutley nuts, nitro?

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[PandaBear]

The guilty speedster was a Schumacher (no relation) “Fusion”, which is designed for idiotic top speeds. Its basically a standard-sized 1/10 touring car with a whopping big 0.21 cu-i engine in it…

1/10s use 0.12 engines in racing which do 1hp+, and the 0.21 are usually found in 1/8 cars.

Schumacher sez their Fusion car is good for 80mph (thats ~130km/h!) but RCCA magazine tested it themselves and only did ~75mph though… so perhaps that’s a bit of sales puffery.

The Fusion is totally built for speed only though. It does not take corners too well due to that great big heavy donk. Its also got a three-speed auto gearbox so you’ll need a very long straight to make good use of that.

The stock 21 engine in the Fusion is nothing flash though… and it was disappointing no one brought along a 1/8 car that night, with a ‘real’ good 21 engine. They can easily hit 140+ within about 3 secs, not sure about sustained speeds though.

Nitro engines really shouldn’t be revved at max for more than a few seconds at a time, otherwise they blow up. blackeye:

[Shypo]

thanks for all the info panda, man that is one psycho car…

and i never knew that about nitro cars. lol lucky my mate never gets the space to rev his to its max

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[jamiekulhanek]

Yeah some of those cars have insane accelerationtoo. I read somewhere that the Kyosho Inferno 7.5 does the 0-100km/h in 1.5 seconds. Thats nearly twice as fast as a formula 1 car!!!

The .12 nitro cars seem slower around tracks than their electric counterparts.

If life is a waste of time, and time is a waste of life, then let’s get wasted and have the time of our lives!!

[8ch Ess Vee]

I have an older Ofna HODR 1/8 scale 4wd off road buggy with a .21 engine and yeah, acceleration is awesome on those things.

Its amazing to see them struggling for traction and peppering everything behind with dirt, grass or gravel.

I remember reading a few years ago about a 1/6 scale RC funny car with a .60 nitro engine that did a 1/6th scale 1/4 mile (about 66 meters I think) in something like 1.8 seconds, from a standing start (obviously).

That is awesome acceleration and even more incredible traction for something so relatively small. They are probably heaps quicker these days, that would have been 10 years a go when I read that article.

Great fun, I will have to get stuck back into fixing my car up again. I am in the process of making new stainless brake discs and fibreglass pads for it. (4 discs, 6 pads)

Ya definately need to be able to pull these suckers up in a hurry. They weigh about 3 kilos and when they are doing 60 odd k’s objects get close really quickly. Lucky these things are so dam tuff. Touch wood, I have never broken anything except front bumpers and rear wings (cartwheels do that sometimes 😀 )

8ch Ess Vee
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[Shypo]

i wouldnt mind seein that car in action ech ess vee, also wouldnt mind a 1/10 toruing HSV:D

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[PandaBear]

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Its amazing to see them struggling for traction and peppering everything behind with dirt, grass or gravel.

Ouch, don’t remind me.

Many years ago, I was rapt doing good ol’ donuts in gravel.
Round and round and round and round… so much smoke!!
Just about dug a hole in the backyard. 😀

Then I realised my bare shins & ankles felt like I’ve been
blasted with a shotgun… boy that hurt!!!

[8ch Ess Vee]

Shypo, there are quite a few good clips available on the web of the 1/8 Off Road. One that I downloaded a month or two back has some guys going over some jumps and getting their cars about 6 feet in the air!!

I have Digital Video Camera but as yet don’t have the relevant hardware to get any video footage into my PC!

I will at some stage scan a few of my old photos and take some current pics of all my RC cars and boats plus some pics of my 1:1 cars and load ’em onto the web.

Toy Garage so far includes:
1/8 scale Nitro Ofna HODR Off Road .21 (3.5cc) buggy.
1/8 scale Hotshot Sprint 7.5cc Outboard Tunnel Hull boat.
1/8 scale Avenger 11cc Monohull boat.
1/10 scale Fast Electric Monohull boat (still in progress)
1/18(??) scale HRT Commodore (cheapie toy type)

I’d also love to get one of the 1/10 HSV / HRT, Coupe or Maloo nitro cars. They look really nice! I’d be too scared to drive it in fear of scratching the paint (just like my 1:1 Clubsport 7 years old and still only 50,000 k’s on the clock 🙂 )

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[PandaBear]

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I have Digital Video Camera but as yet don’t have the relevant hardware to get any video footage into my PC!

Last year I bought a IEEE1394 card for about $30 recently, works a treat; would be cheaper by now I’d bet. You don’t need anything fancy for a MiniDV device.

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I’d also love to get one of the 1/10 HSV / HRT, Coupe or Maloo nitro cars. They look really nice! I’d be too scared to drive it in fear of scratching the paint (just like my 1:1 Clubsport 7 years old and still only 50,000 k’s on the clock 🙂 )

The chassis under those cars aren’t all that impressive… only 2WD too. Suggest better route is getting a spare body and putting it onto a half-decent chassis for a much better car at roughly the same price.

[8ch Ess Vee]

PandaBear,

I have also seen the IEEE1394 / firewire cards going cheap (well, below $100.00 anyway last time I noticed one advertised somewhere).

Having not had the opourtunity to play with any of that stuff before, I’m still in the dark a bit.

Not too sure, but wouldn’t I also need to get my hands on some DV editing software for editing any video on the pc?

What’s good / easy to use / and reasonably priced, suggestions anyone??

My home machine is gettin’ on a bit, its a PIII 450, 9 Gig HD and 64 meg of RAM, so possibly not up to the task!!??

Any help greatfully accepted eg hard drive requirements, RAM etc.

I had heard the same thing about those chassis. Not that I have the spare ca$h at the moment to buy anything, but if I did, I would do exactly as you suggest.

I think I have also seen 1/8th scale holden shells available which I could drop onto my existing off roader, drop it down real low and put on a cool set of street tyres/wheels.

One day perhaps!

8ch Ess Vee
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[PandaBear]

IEEE1394/FW is just like a souped up serial card, so it doesn’t matter what brand/model it is. They *all* do the same job! Some modern SoundBlasters even have a FW port, I think.

Win98 will auto-recognise whatever the card.

Only Win98SE and later (note the ‘SE’ bit!) have MS’s generic DV-control protocols, so your PC will know how to talk to your mDV camera.

Software wise there’s a lot to choose from, anything from Adobe Premiere downwards.

PC speed isn’t really that critical, except for the processing time. Just have to wait longer.

More critical is HDD room & speed. As a minimum budget for about 30GB/hr of video, and a 7200rpm drive is best to avoid dropouts. Your bus should be fast enough to support the throughput too.

I am not far away either… only a P3-600EB with 256M. I had only approx 26GB (2 IDEs) so I added a 3rd 80GB 7200rpm HDD recently, via a external FW case. This is a fantastic investment – excellent throughput, no dropouts.

I haven’t really coded any big movies yet though… might take a coupl’a days on a P3… :dead:

[ph2t]

Guys,

forum.doom9.org has a great DV Forum on capturing and editing.

Cheers,

ph2t.

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