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Oh, the holidays and such, could head OT....



On 11:29 am 12/20/06 "Chris Bennett" <scirocco16vr32@gmail.com> wrote:
> I picked up a new .15cc Nitro motor for one of my RC cars.  If it's
> unlimited... mount an airplane or car engine in that thing, and run
> 40% nitro.  The nitro engine was $69 at Tower Hobbies.  Over the break
> I am upgrading the Savage to hardened steel drive gears, and doing an
> engine swap on the HPI Nitro MT.  If I can't mod the real ones right
> now I can mod the toy ones... it's a little cheaper.
>
> Chris
>Not much! I could have had a running used Scirocco for what I've got in my
>Chris Craft. Not that it goes anywhere anymore, its servos are all in the
>bear. This one's indoors, or we'd have the RC plane motor in it. Maybe next
>year, for now a fast electric RC car motor will have to do. Traction will
>be the issue anyway. The race is on hardwood.

Forget what I said about next year, I want it tank like next year. Maybe a
scale ARGO. We'll drive over theirs and toodle on down the track. I really
wanted guns this year.
cathy