RC Nitro Car Recommendations?

[limpsfield]

I would like to buy an RC Nitro car. I am using the excuse of my 8 year old son...

It would be for me and him to play with.

I do not have the faintest idea about these but want something reasonably fast, fun, durable and cheap-ish. All we have had in the pat is lots of battery powered ones.

Any recommendations and stuff to look out for? He would like a Subaru Impreza of some sort.

Thanks in advance.

[The_Jackal]

You may find it better to buy a buggy type nitro rather than a touring car type as you will find it easier to find places to use it.
Running up and down a car park can get boring after a while.
Buggy wise you cant go wrong with a Hyper 7 for just over £200.
One tip though if you have never had one before is to find a club or a friend nearby who can show you the easiest way to start it properly and check it over. DO NOT assume a ready to run will actually be properly ready to run. There are a lot of screws in a nitro and they all need to be secure or threadlocked.
Either way, there are loads of thread giving nitro advice on here rather than repeating it all.

[motormania]

Best recommendations is do not buy Nitro.

Brushless and LiPo is the way forward, even the Nitro guys who run 1:8 buggies are converting to the Electric alternative as they are faster than Nitro and require far less maintenance - in fact, none at all really!

So much has been written about the Nitro guys converting to the Brushless systems that manufacturers are now release 1:8 scale Brushless chassis designed solely for the brushless and Lipo market.

It's changed the face of 1:10 scale racing and it's started to do the same with 1:8 scale too.

[Cerberus90]

But you can't be Nitro for the sound. Electrics just sound boring,

I've got a Hong Nor Ultra LX1 buggy, very strong, its taken flips and crashes and come away unscathed, apart from when it spun and went backwards underneath a park bench and the leg of the bench pulled the exhaust off, . Good excuse to get a new stainless big bore pipe for it, .

Tuing Nitros is hard though, I've still not got the hang of it.

[wacattack]

You would soon get bored of the noise, its the performance of hte car that keeps you interested.

I race 1/10th offroad at national level, have tried nitro and they are dull in comparison. Lipo power is the best, no contest. Any nitro would appear slow in comparison

Edited by wacattack on Monday 17th August 22:14

[The_Jackal]

To be fair half of RC users would say the opposite.
Its purely personal choice.
I have 4 nitro and 2 electric and my nitros get more use. I cant stand charging bloody batteries!
The extra 10 or 20 mph you get with brushless is mainly irrelevant for non racers especially when offroad.

[wacattack]

The_Jackal said:

To be fair half of RC users would say the opposite.
Its purely personal choice.
I have 4 nitro and 2 electric and my nitros get more use. I cant stand charging bloody batteries!
The extra 10 or 20 mph you get with brushless is mainly irrelevant for non racers especially when offroad.

Good points, you have.

I guess it depends on whether you see yourself racing at a club. If so, there are more tracks 1/10th tracks about than nitro and the power performance of Lipos is far better in a racing situation. If you just want to go to your nearest park/field etc then nitro might be best.

[Red V8]

Also depends if you like tinkering with engines etc... getting them to run right can be a bit of a challenge, but that's all part of the experience

[Anthony Micallef]

I have a Thunder Tiger TS4N which is an on road 1/10 Nitro Car. It was relatively easy to set up and get going.

However my biggest mistake was not getting an off road buggy instead as the fact that I have to actually drive to a local trading estate to run it has just put me off. I havent used it for months!!