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Would like to buy an RC car
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workaccount wrote: »Including postage yes. I am just thinking a trakkas revo is only about a hundred more and am under the impression these are better.
Though a hundred is a good lot more anyway.
If you are going down the Truck/Truggy route buy a Hong Nor CRT
Much better for racing
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workaccount wrote: »I'm not necessarily. I just thought the revo was much better. Is the hyper worth the cash dya reckon?
It would be my first rc car/buggie.
Personally i would go for the Hong Nor CRT
I had a revo and spent quite a lot of cash on it.. Sold it to Plug on here. Bought the Hong Nor CRT and Love it.
Completely different machine to the Revo.
Beauty about a truggy is they can be driven where Buggies cannot go. 0 -
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The Revo is a very good fun product (Traxxas are well respected by the trade for their back up support) and they sell a lot of them because it does exactly what is says on the box but I also know so many people who bought them and now have them lying up because as I said early bashing around on your own can get boring after a while.
As Vectra says Hong Nor offer some good cars which you could bash around or race. It really depends on what you want to get out of it.
Personally I really enjoying the racing (even though I'm not very good) as you get to meet people with similar interests. I'm sure Vectra will agree with me on that. He ran one of the events of the year in November for EP Touring Cars which brought together over 30 drivers most of who had never met before and since then we race against one another regularly.
Regards,
Oisin
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Tru about the Revo being a Fun machine.
BUT
I really think that Traxxas shot themselves in the foot and took the fun factoer out of them when they introduced the 3.3 engine..
Way too many Crankshaft failures
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workaccount wrote: »The Hong Nor is 380 and that does not even include an engine. I think I will have to stick with a hyper.
Look >> HERE<<
Hong Nor CRT RTR complete with everything.£337
Email Pete at that store.
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Depends on where you buy it from!
Some places it comes for up to a third less than that ....
Cost depending on the nitro level of course.
I worked it out about 5 yrears ago with at 1:10th rally , 140 miles to the gallon on 5% glowfuel. Very impressed I was at the time! Less distance on 10% glowfuel, but it was of course a good bit hotter in performance, so not fair to expect fuel economy at faster speed. When you get to 20% a car is a hot little thing, but don't expect to have the same gallon last you all summer any more! The 20% guys use about a little over a half gallon a day if they are out for the full day.
As a guide .... The guys I know, a gallon (on average) lasts 2 months if they are average modellers, 1 month if they are real busy guys out every week for a couple hours, and lasts 2 weeks if they are out midweek and weekends.
I am referring to a proper gallon of fuel, not tiddly US gallon (3 1/2 litre) bottles that some fuels come in.
The Specter and the Hyper ... close but not identical.
But very very similar, and a good few parts are the same.
In some I have seen the engine is the same, for example.
But I can not speak for all Hypers, since I have only inspected 5 or 6 close up so far. I had a 1:10 Hyper rally car myself about 2 years ago, and that also had the same engine as the Carson, but the rest of it was totally different. So I suspect Hyper buy a chassis, choose a "special" setup-version and re-label and market it as theirs.
There are fewer car makers than most people think. Much fewer than there are car brands.
I've used about 2.5L's of Nitro today on the car alone. Four tanks to run in and about 20 - 30mins flying round. How do the guys who are out all day only use the same amount?0 -
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