mattbob18
Newbie
Is any of the R.C. Crawlers, or F-350 or any of the other trail trucks, are nitro or gas. Because the only ones I can find, they are eletric. Or has anyone droped a nitro or gas motor in one.
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Motor
- Thread starter mattbob18
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MCSCOTT
Rock Crawler
It's been done before on completely custom setups, but it's very rare. Nitro and gas engines just don't crawl.
Personally I don't really see why anyone runs nitro and gas anymore with the way all these new brushless motors are. You've always been able to get more low end torque out of electric motors, and now when you add in the fact that electric motors can be much faster than nitro without all the tuning, rebuilding, and the mess of running them, I just don't see much need for those type of r/c's anymore at all in my opinion.
Personally I don't really see why anyone runs nitro and gas anymore with the way all these new brushless motors are. You've always been able to get more low end torque out of electric motors, and now when you add in the fact that electric motors can be much faster than nitro without all the tuning, rebuilding, and the mess of running them, I just don't see much need for those type of r/c's anymore at all in my opinion.
Yup, seen a couple people do this. To use a nitro engine for crawling you need to run it at high RPM, to get it into its power band, and geared super low (around 250:1). Because of the constant running at high RPM, engines that are used for crawling have to be rebuilt often. Plus, nitro engines spew unspent fuel onto the rocks, making them too slick to climb.
I too just don't see a need for nitro, with two 1500 mha batteries I can run my crawler for about an hour and a half. I have 5 batteries for my rusty and pede, which will let me run for about two hours, I take a break, drink a beer (or three) while charging batteries, then I'm back on the dirt. "thumbsup"
I too just don't see a need for nitro, with two 1500 mha batteries I can run my crawler for about an hour and a half. I have 5 batteries for my rusty and pede, which will let me run for about two hours, I take a break, drink a beer (or three) while charging batteries, then I'm back on the dirt. "thumbsup"
did it just to do it but wasnt for crawling
