Electric 1/8th Buggies

[ojoloco]

Originally Posted by nevens

Yes, it's really nice and reliable. I just looks like a factory kit .

I forgot to mention that my first race results were TQ and victory . It was first appearance of a brushless car and I got a lot of interest around my car... Was a nice day!

Congratulations! I didn't take mine to the track yet, but i think it's going to generate a lot of interest too, because it's the first one in my region. I hope they would let me race against nitros...

[Bathy]

1/8th electric buggies are the future!!!!

Going to be big business in the not too distant future, I believe.

Novak are soon to launch their conversion kits for all the major, current, top 1/8th buggies. One company is ahead of the game and launching a specifically designed 1/8th electric buggy! Once one does it, I’m sure more will follow.

I’ve always liked the thought of 1/8th scale and loved the look, strength, size of these cars, but I couldn’t ever bring myself to use/buy nitro, to me it seems like ‘hassle’ the maintenance that goes with them.

A few of my mates have Nitro cars, they seem to always go wrong, and whenever we meet, I flick a switch and my 1/10th electric car is off and running, 20 mins later they are still adjusting things and yanking on a pull start. All they achieve is spitting fuel out of the exhaust all over the road, not my idea of fun and if they do get running they are slower accelerating and hardly faster overall, oh and also silly noisy… so pointless!

However, a 1/8th electric buggy would be the best of both worlds, big strong fast, no silly glow plug, fuel spitting, non-starting, noisy, messy-ness… just fast fun!

I want one!

[wezzer]

i have to agree that brushless 1/8ths are going to be pretty big !
i hope that they dont take over from nitro ( i dont think they will ) as some of use actually like the noise etc that goes with nitro and your mates must be doing something wrong with theirs as i dont have any reliability issues , cant imagine us putting on a neo buggy meeting for just electric 1/8ths how boring would that be !!!!!
still never say never

[nevens]

Finally a real movie of my car!

http://www.kewego.fr/video/iLyROoafYVdd.html

[Body Paint]

Urrrrm..... where.... nothing there for me

EDIT:Oops, left the h out

[jimmy]

boring I agree! imagine how crap the racing will be if there's no random cuts and it's all about the driving! nah, bring it on. Run them side by side at the neo if there's no advantage, that'd be cool to watch.

[GRIFF55]

Originally Posted by nevens

Finally a real movie of my car!

http://www.kewego.fr/video/iLyROoafYVdd.html

nothing for me either

[Dunc]

The video is working for me now.

Looks great Nicolas

I hope to try a conversion myself later this year.

[OldTimer]

Working for me know

[GRIFF55]

nice!!

[_JP_]

that track looks ace!

[nevens]

Sorry for first (non-)viewers, I guess video was still being processed but I had to sleep at one point so I posted anyway .

Glad you like it, track is in north on France (it's Lille's club) and it's indeed very nice.

[ginger fixit]

hi guys
about 3 years ago i gave up racing 8th rally x cross because i kept distroying engines 4 in 7 months in the last year and all of them were not my fault but of course on warranty on nitro engines.

so i went to do electric tenth offroad loved it cars are more resonsive handle better more tunable back then (1/8th car are much better now)

i did 2 years of that with the same cars b4 bj4 and same motors cells etc etc for a club racer/ the odd national when there was room close to home electric was spot on i race on road now but still get the same reliability and i finish 99% of my runs where as with nitro is was about 50%.

i will also add i never had cars fall apart it was always engine or throtal and brake servo

so if electric was aloud to race rally x meetings i for 1 would be looking at coming back to 1/8th

[nevens]

Originally Posted by ginger fixit

hi guys
about 3 years ago i gave up racing 8th rally x cross because i kept distroying engines 4 in 7 months in the last year and all of them were not my fault but of course on warranty on nitro engines.

so i went to do electric tenth offroad loved it cars are more resonsive handle better more tunable back then (1/8th car are much better now)

i did 2 years of that with the same cars b4 bj4 and same motors cells etc etc for a club racer/ the odd national when there was room close to home electric was spot on i race on road now but still get the same reliability and i finish 99% of my runs where as with nitro is was about 50%.

i will also add i never had cars fall apart it was always engine or throtal and brake servo

so if electric was aloud to race rally x meetings i for 1 would be looking at coming back to 1/8th

In Belgium I can race club races and the Belgian Open Trophy. I just pick races where mains are 15 minutes max.
I don't think we should try to get allowed in nitro meetings but rather create a new category of our own. Nitro want to run long, we want to run fast .
I would say 15 minutes main are really great!

[Cockerill]

http://www.rc411.com/pages/newsarchi...e=062008#51598

[OldTimer]

Originally Posted by Cockerill

http://www.rc411.com/pages/newsarchi...e=062008#51598

Now that is interesting

[Lee]

how cool it that!!

Its like a gas car but faster and cleaner

[ojoloco]

Originally Posted by Cockerill

http://www.rc411.com/pages/newsarchi...e=062008#51598

If they're doing their own e-8ight kit, i hope they'll sell it as an upgrade too(upgrade because it's obviously something that makes the car a lot better )

[Freakypen]

That 1/8 electric losi looks great-I'd love to give it a go!! Does anyone know if the electric 1/8 scale cars wear their tyres as quick as say a 1/10 offroad buggy?I know that the engine powered 1/8 typically dont ( prob due to the clutches etc and don't have the instant acceleration an electric buggy has....)

[nevens]

Originally Posted by Freakypen

That 1/8 electric losi looks great-I'd love to give it a go!! Does anyone know if the electric 1/8 scale cars wear their tyres as quick as say a 1/10 offroad buggy?I know that the engine powered 1/8 typically dont ( prob due to the clutches etc and don't have the instant acceleration an electric buggy has....)

From my experience, they resist more than 1/10 ones. But compared to a nitro 1/8, they seems to wear the same because even if you have more power, it's more drivable and less brutal.