Archive for the ‘Non Nitro’ Category
Saturday, April 12th, 2008 | 134 views
Just to direct you all to our sub domain Electric Powered RC Just For you and it was all about the recent HPI Challenge 2008 1st Round. The report quite interesting and it was done by the Champion himself. We are wondering how he could produce such a good report while still could perform well on the race. We tried that before and that is why we decided to just do the race reporting only. Hahaha.
Anyway, Here are a few, two videos actually, taken by his lovely girlfriend. Both videos are on the video Final Round 1 and 2 of the HPI Challenge 2008. We just assumed there were taken by the girlfriend since we cannot see her face. We noticed it was quite hot and we also noticed the occasional drop of the umbrella in front of the view. Must be damn hot and tiring. We hope she was using the best anti wrinkle cream available in the market. Racing under the constant exposure of the sun is not so good to the skin. We experienced it and we were like barbecued people on the next day. 
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008 | 160 views
Just a peek on our local race happening. The Electric Powered Modified Class Race which will be held at HMS Racing Speedway Track, Kolombong Inanam on this coming 20th April, 2008.
If you look at the entrance, most of them are using the go get now now rc car. Mainly, it is just a battle between the current leader in many local races, the Serpent Team and HotBodies. So far only a couple of Yokomos and a single participant using the Tamiya MSXX.
We hope we can cover this and update you all live. We’ll see how it goes. 
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008 | 164 views
This is obviously not our field, electric powered rc car. Not to mention anything about rc that uses electric powered battery. Definitely not our expertise here. On the other hand, we do have friends that need this information from us since for them any rc related even though we said we only into nitro stuffs, they still think we should provide them the electric powered news along with this nitro we craze for. So, we said ok, we tried.
Here our first article on Electric Powered Radio Control car Stuffs, the Losi Electric Powered Xcelorin Brushless Sensored Speed Controller.
Just another place for you to check on everything Electric Powered RC Car.
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008 | 211 views
Yes, Josh Cyrul is now with the TOP Racing (T.O.P. Tokyo Hobbies Optional Parts). If you do not know who is Josh Cyrul, where have you been all this while. Geez. Check his website here at cefx.net. AS always, Thanks to RedRC.Net, our rc partner for providing this info.
Masato and Vincent Yip of T.O.P. Racing say: “We are extremely happy that Josh has decided to race for us. Not only is he a world class driver, but also a respected inventor and innovator. We are dedicated to making an impact in the R/C industry and we feel Josh is the right person to lead us.”
I want to personally welcome Josh to the team. We sent him a car 5 days before the Snowbirds for testing and critique. Within having the kit for a couple hours he was already sending us build updates. The following day we were receiving updates on his testing. These updates were not one sentence emails, but rather lengthy emails regarding technical aspects of the car, results of testing, what he liked, and what he thought could be better. So far he says he’s very happy with the car, but I’ll let him tell you that for himself.
I’ve never worked with Josh before this, and from what I can tell so far he is dedicated and passionate about our industry. His engineering knowledge about touring cars is second to none. We are very fortunate to have him and will utilize his engineering talents to produce the best products for the racer.
EJ Evans
T.O.P. Racing USA
www.topracingusa.com
All pictures below from the Tokyo Hobbies Optional Parts website.
This is what our Josh Cyrul said about the car:
First off, I just wanted to thank everyone at T.O.P. Racing for all the help and effort. It was only a few days before the race and I was a little weary of getting the car and getting up to speed quick enough. Vincent, EJ and Michael all worked quickly to get everything to me and from there I was able to do some testing here but nothing near as much as I would have liked to have had going into one of the largest events of the year. Overall, I was very happy going into the race and I felt that we had the oppertunity to have a good showing.
At the event, it was definatly a rough start as the track immediatly had super high traction which I had no chance to test the car on. I struggled the first 1-2 days trying to find a safe set-up that I could work with as the car just had so much steering!! Towards the end of practice I had found a pretty good set-up but I broke the left front castor block on the last run of practice. This was a major screw up as I put on castor block that I didn’t check which was a 6 degree instead of the 4 degree that I had been running. Needless to say, this wasn’t found until after the 3rd round of qualifying.
In the 4th round, the car had a pretty bad understeer (due to compensating the set-up for the castor block) in 19T so I just barely missed the final. I made an adjustment for Mod and the car was really good but unfortunetly, the speed control was letting go (at the time I thought it was the motor) so the car was off pace power wise and it slowed the last 1-2 laps costing me the final. This left me to the B-main bump in both where I was able to adjust the set-up a little more for 19T and race my way into the final. In Mod, the car was great but the speedo said it was not to be as it was ok for a few laps then went into what felt like turbo lag and then hung in 1/4 throttle (neutral position moved) before it finally just stopped working. Dissapointing really as I felt the set-up was finally right where I could have raced up in the top 5 in the finals. The 19T main was tough as with a new speedo the car was definatly much faster (I guess it was hurting me in that class also) but a few crashes an body tucks put me scrappin’ for positions in the back of the pack.
Overall, it was a great weekend for being the first event with the car. I was super happy with having no problems with tweaking and with the way the car reacted to changes. I’m definatly looking forward to the up and coming events to better show what the car can do!!
Thanks again to everyone at T.O.P. Racing!!
Source: RedRC.net | RCTech | Tokyo Hobbies Optional Parts
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007 | 644 views
RC Hot Bodies Products came out with new HB cyclone Carpet Chassis spec with new thicker chassis, 3.6mm carbon fibre (fiber) plate. Mostly all the carbon fibre (fiber) parts been thicken to optimize for carpet racing. This includes the upper deck, arms and the rear shock tower.
Thanks to our RC Partner, RedRC.Net for this coverage. More detailed pictures are with them here.
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Posted in Hotbodies products, Non Nitro, RedRC.net | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007 | 490 views
This is a very cool rc video of the HPI Racing E10 RTR drifting its way on the carpet. Yes, on the carpet!! 
Enjoy it!
Thanks to my source: Driftex
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007 | 1,263 views
Of course there are many ways to convert your nitro buggy to electric powered buggy and one of them is this clear concepts brushless buggy but why go all the hassle when you can actually just buy from this company. Yes it is from the Team Novak and they have everything in their conversion kit to transform you 1/8th scale nitro buggy to electric powered buggy.
Not just any electric powered buggy, it is brushless powered buggy!
Nitro enthusiasts who want to join the brushless revolution can now convert their 1/8th- scale nitro buggy to electric powered using the Novak 1/8th-scale Conversion Kit. Kits are available for various models of Kyosho™, Mugen™ and Ofna™ vehicles, and include all of the necessary components to convert it to brushless power.
Nitro customers who have never run brushless will now experience longer run times, minimal maintenance, low-end torque and control and incredible top speed.
The Novak Conversion Kit is compatible with the Novak #3020 and #3021 HV High-Voltage Brushless Systems, and is available individually or as a combo kit with these systems. The kit includes a Motor Heat Sink and Motor Mount specifically designed for the Novak 550-size HV motors; Two Battery Boxes for dual 2S Li-Po packs or dual 6-cell Ni-MH packs; and a Steering Servo Mount (replaces dual servo mount set-up as the mechanical brakes and brake servo are no longer needed). Kit includes all the necessary Hardware to complete the conversion.
Source: Team Novak (teamnovak.com)
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2007 | 370 views
We would like to bring to you all attention our new Featured Radio Control class that rocks the world. Be it in the real full scale or in the smaller scale. The 1:10 Scale Electric Powered RC Drifting. For the first introduction, here an example from The RC Drifting Video from Team Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, East Malaysia. Headed by the cool guy nick Zerocoolcool[Yea, twice the cool here 
] from RCTech. With real name start with “L” and end with “R”. He remains to be anonymous because he wants to remain as “Cool Drifter”!
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Technorati Tags: 1:10 Scale Electric Powered RC Drifting, RC Drifting Video, Team Kota Kinabalu
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Thursday, May 10th, 2007 | 672 views
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Another video for all Non Nitro RC Drifting friends. Taken by my friend, RCSabah at Asia City, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.
Now, KK’ian(Sabahan) Racers are concentrating more on Drifting. That is seems the Craze now. Most of the senior racers are turning their old Tamiya, Yokomo and Pro4 chassis to become their drifting machine. For the newbies, most of them using the HB cyclone, most the Tub chassis. With very high turn motor, like the 23T motor, the torquey and very slick tires, the rc drifters seems to have fun drifting forever. A very cool way to end your office day at the parking lot.
For info, the video is taken at around 10pm to 11pm at night. Just to show, how crazy this guys are. Our team will cover this new craze more in the future. Please come back for more. Or subscribe JonehRC Email Feeds
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Technorati Tags: Non Nitro RC Drifting, RCSabah, Asia City, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah
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Wednesday, March 14th, 2007 | 210 views
All right this is not a Nitro specific race but exciting and fun 1:10 Electric buggy & truck race nevertheless. It was the First French National Round. This race report should come out earlier. I apologize to PetitRC. Mail Inbox got problem.
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Thursday, March 1st, 2007 | 189 views
Yes, you read it correctly. Its Sega Game(EU 1993). The developer was SIMS. I was browsing in the YouTube and i found this 2 videos and it is really interesting. If you look closely, it also has the suspension level tune-up, tires setting, optional nitros and a few more. Thanks to CRVKHZ for posting this video. It still offroad buggy for me. The best part again, once in awhile you can get cash on some of the corners. Meaning you really have to drive skillfully and on the right lane. Hahahha. This is so good.
Enjoy!
2 players!
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Technorati Tags: Sega Game, YouTube
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Wednesday, February 21st, 2007 | 262 views
Now this is really the ultimate skill in rock crawling… full throttle style. Hahaha. I know, this is not RC. But it is too good to be ignored. I bet you all that the video is really cool. You going to replay it at least the second time. Just watch it. Unbelievable. You thought its over and done…. but heck… just watch it.
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Thursday, February 15th, 2007 | 1,781 views
I just got this email at 1125pm from Dustin Peckham aka glassdoctor!. The creator of this awesome Brushless Buggy Clear Concepts mod. I’ve checked his work and his rc video. I think his work deserved to be in this blog for his great creation. I love good people with great invention. OK, you said he’s not the only one can do this… i can do this too. But you know what… he is friendly and he is willing to share his invention with all the visitors and subscribers of this blog. To that, he’s already a champion. he definitely deserve to be in this blog for all to know. you can contact him through his email address down below.
His explanation starts here:
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Technorati Tags: Dustin Peckham, Brushless Buggy, rc video
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Friday, February 9th, 2007 | 553 views
Thanks to run2jeepn(rctech), another rock crawler video of its Pimp Cane from JP Custom RC.
This video taken from run2jeepn first few customers. He can’t even remembers the crawler featured wheelbase, either 17in or 18in Wheelbase. He explained that it is the Torsion Design…The backbone does the flexing. Now how cool is that. Business must been really good. Can you denied it? Just look at the video and some here from the previous post.
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Technorati Tags: rock crawler, Pimp Cane, JP Custom RC, Torsion Design
Posted in Non Nitro, RC video, rock crawling | 2 Comments »
Thursday, February 8th, 2007 | 1,219 views
Once in a while i have to break the blog rule that only nitro offroad articles only. Hey its my personal blog anyway. so i set the rule, i can break it too. Hehehe. Do not blame me for now here some serious rock crawling non nitro style. that means all battery power and some serious lock diff and high turn motor.. i mean in a 40-80T motor … crazy cool stuff! Its not mine obviously. I wish its mine but all glory and honor goes to run2jeepn of Jp Custom Rc, the company. Thanks there!
Here i quote what he said of this great invention:
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Technorati Tags: nitro offroad, rock crawling
Posted in Non Nitro, RC video, Rc News, rock crawling | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007 | 405 views
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OK, it is not Nitro. I would have said “Sorry…” BUT what the heck. Any good article, deserve to be in this blog.
Now this is what i call dedication and pure interest to the max. I salute this guy. Now, who am i talking about? I also do not know. He’s only known as Joeling in rctech. But he is friendly and i’m sure you’ll thank me and mesmerized by what he put his time to writing all these. Valuable post. you will agree me when you finished reading it. 
Introduction
I began to take rc seriously again after a 15 year layoff. Of course, ’serious’ is pretty relative in terms of the overall scheme of things. I was a basher & will probably always be one. I have never raced rc at any competitive level in my previous life either. I’m not about to change. Instead, I have always been a tinkerer, trying to make something different, though not necessarily better. In addition, I only knew electric stuff – no nitro for me. Hmm, thinking back now, I kind of remember that nitro was starting to take off just as my interest was fading. Could the two be linked ?
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