Newbie :)
 

Right, After much thought, me and my brother are giving 8th a go this year. Starting with a few club meeting at NDOR and Deerdale, Hopefully onto the 8/11 (8/12) series... Then Nationals :woot:

I will be running a Team Associated RC8B, With a Picco P3 .21B Off-Road SG engine and pipe. Any thoughts on this engine from anyone, general advice welcome? :thumbsup:

Running a 6.0v 2000Mah LiFe receiver pack, as I am led to believe these do not have the need for a regulator.

Also will be running a Savox 1257 for the steering:
http://www.cmldistribution.co.uk/cml...tId=0000004216

And an Alturn AAS-752MG servo for the throttle:
http://www.modelsport.co.uk/alturn-u...roducts/359785

Any thoughts on these choices are welcome :) Have I got adequate torque on these servo's? Or would you recommend anything more ball-sie! :)

Any other hints/Tips or advice would be much appreciated lol

my advice for what its worth would be to go up to Tims track(ndor) on a saturday for practice and run the hell out of it. I was there today running my engine in and it was great fun. Track seems massive after all the tenth ones that we run on but the 1/8 cars cover the ground very quickly and drive very differently to the tenth cars. I was surprised how nimble it was considering how heavy they are. Very impressed so far. May have caught the nitro bug.:thumbsup:

What car you got Si?

RB one mate.

Get a couple of RC Sure Start engine heaters, invaluable especially coming into winter. http://www.rcsurestart.co.uk/ along with the latest version of the SMD Evolution starter box.

Not sure how the specs compare but I've been told to get Savox 1258 for the steering & 1256 for the throttle.

Unfortunately I haven't heard that many good things from people on the picco's :( I'm sure if you run them in and treat them well they'll last you fine, just what I've heard.

Good luck, maybe you should make a blog between you so other people wanting to make the jump from electric tenth to nitro eighth can see what it's like.

Enjoy :D

Losi nitrotec engines, just under 200quid, fantastic engine for the money

picco
 

yes mate as some people have said and is true,the picco engine isn't the best or good as they are a sod to tune and do have problems,if i was you i'd buy a novarossi 21 non lullstart or a hyper 21 8port engine. i rate both of these engines 5 stars.

the best bang for the buck engine at the moment has to be the Argus

only £129 retail & as fast as anything else out there. reliable & easy to tune too :thumbsup:

argus
 

+ 1 FOR THE ARGUS