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CaStLe

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CaStLe

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Hiya!

Well, todays my bday, so a couple of days ago i decided to treat myself, so i went out and bought a nitro powered remote control car.

Its a Skyline of course, 1/10 scale, runs on nitro fuel, is four wheel drive, and yeah its very quick. Took a couple of days to run the engine in, and set it all up properly, but its running sweet now.

Just curious as to how many other people on here have one of these kinds of RC cars, and if so, any useful links or information on tuning and whatever would be helpful. Also interested to know if there are any clubs in SA that hold racing events, or if there are any tracks around built for racing these cars around. Im new to all this RC stuff, so yeah, any help would be appreciated

Took a few pics of it thismornin', so take a looksie:

Front

Back

Side

Body

Well, have a good day!

cya!

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EnricoPalazzo Grand Master

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Nice. Is it pull start. Its a good start into the Nitro RC's. U should come see the real cars race. My brother and I used to go to the track every second sunday to race. He still goes...

Basically u have a car that can be mucked around with, with minimum maintainance... They are good little cars.

Make sure u look after it well. PM me if u wanna know anythin abaut RC cars.

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the site for info used to be the HPI site(no not high performance imports, lol), HPIracing.com ....... the forums there used to be flooded with ppl, but now it's only for ppl that actually own the HPI cars..... i'm not sure where all the ppl went ...

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TIMMMAYYY Mentor

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I use 2 race electric 1/10th scale onroad and offroad for about 5 years.. raced interstate, two national champs and quite a few state championships in various classes.

You can get various RTR (ready to run) models from either Model Flight (who stock a very fast and sturdy super tourer type cars) or Hobby Habit who pretty well hav the RC car scene well and truely wrapped up in adelaide.

Model Flight ar at 42 Maple Road, Keswick (Just behind lecornu) and Hobby Habit ar on Main Nth Road about 1km before you get to Grand Junction Road, headin outta town.

Both places ar worth a look if you're keen.

Great fun 'ey Castle

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Nightcrawler Grand Master

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Nah Ivan, you can buy them pretty much anywhere .... there is a joint at Brahma Lodge that have heaps of them .... I am looking to get the same sort of thing when I have some spare cash ... but with an S15 shell :)

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not to mention most expensive enrico.

$150 worth of tyres for a club meeting? I'll pass on that one thanks!

Off the shelf fastest but they make oval circuit cars in the states that run on 30+ cells and 5 turn Cobalt motors that do over 100km/h pretty easily.

Has anyone been up to LittleHampton before to watch em? Awesome things, especially the 1/5 scale tourers

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GFXman Experienced

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Me and my housemate are looking at getting one each. But we are newbies. Can you guys fill me in on some things we should know before getting em?

For example,

- any costs involved

- maintenance

- pros/cons

etc etc

Would be very much appreciated :)

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