Zippos Customs nitros - Page 4

BART · #61 10-22-2009, 10:13 PM

Now I'm sad

zippo855 · #62 10-22-2009, 10:32 PM

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Originally Posted by BART

Now I'm sad

don't worry man, it's in good hands, i'll take care of it like i do the rest of my cars. first agenda, complete chassis strip

still enough hours in the day to do that too

BART · #63 10-22-2009, 10:53 PM

Strip the RS4, the 1/8th should only need some rubbing alcohol sprayed on it and an air gun taken to it. Watch out on that 1/8th, it's an animal, you might want to change the gearing around on it, I only ran it once and if I remember right it was geared for the stock engine and hit top speed wayyyy too fast, could have handled taller gearing with ease.

zippo855 · #64 10-22-2009, 11:00 PM

alright, thanks for the heads up on it. i'll look into some other gearing options, and looking more at the 1/8 i'll probly just take it to the shop tommorow and hit it with some cleaner and air then. rs4, thats another story, lol. definately a strip down. if the weather warms up a little i might get to take it out this weekend

BART · #65 10-22-2009, 11:07 PM

Your not a real man unless you fire it up in the house after the wife is asleep.

zippo855 · #66 10-22-2009, 11:10 PM

lmao, the wife i'm not worried about, the little one, well thats another story. i tick the wife off, i'll just get my own bed (the couch) the little one, well i won't get sleep. and i dont think it would so much tick him off as it would scare him at first, then make it to where he wants me to keep running it and play with it.

BART · #67 10-24-2009, 01:17 AM

Updates? your killing us...

zippo855 · #68 10-24-2009, 01:31 AM

well didnt get much time to work on it last night. i did pick up a few things for it today,

and also got a friend that wanted to do some trading, so i traded my nitro rustler for another rs4, this on is an rs4 evo 3, and he also threw in a 2.5 traxxas motor as well. the evo is quite a bit smaller than my old super nitro
and heres a group shot, minus the tsunami.
i'm loving this buggy, its wheelbase is a little longer than the tmaxx

BART · #69 10-24-2009, 01:35 AM

The wheel base is as close to comparing them as you will ever get. When the tmaxx is trying to get up on pipe, the ofna will be shredding everything in its path. I cant wait for you to run it. A full turn, full power, slide, with all 4 wheels churning is something to be experienced. Start it, start it now...

ling427ttvette · #70 10-24-2009, 01:40 AM

I'm really starting to wonder if I should have taken the Ofna buggy offer in trade for my Slash.. man that thing looks like a lot of fun.

I've just never ran nitro before and don't know the first thing.. so it's a little intimidating I guess. That thing looks pretty sweet man.

BART · #71 10-24-2009, 01:43 AM

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Originally Posted by ling427ttvette

I'm really starting to wonder if I should have taken the Ofna buggy offer in trade for my Slash.. man that thing looks like a lot of fun.

I've just never ran nitro before and don't know the first thing.. so it's a little intimidating I guess. That thing looks pretty sweet man.

You had that offer and passed it up??????????

ling427ttvette · #72 10-24-2009, 01:56 AM

Yes...

I was originally wanting to trade the Slash for an E-Maxx or 1/10 E-Revo, and he came along with the Ofna. I'd never heard of it until then, and I thought hard about it.. but decided against it.

zippo855 · #73 10-25-2009, 09:43 PM

shouldda went with the buggy, this thing is a beast

well heres a video, the guy i took with me i thought was shooting videos for the 2 tanks of gas i ran through this. but come to find out, he shot 1 video.... he was moving the camera the whole time i was running this and everything.....

forgot the pictures i took at the end

GearHeadV8 · #74 10-26-2009, 12:00 AM

looks like you had fun lol. I like the final pics. Looks like a beast

zippo855 · #75 10-31-2009, 09:30 PM

alright well with the last run i broke the servo again, so i picked up a metal gear servo from the hobby shop, and it has a little more torque too, so its all good now. took them out today, the tmaxx and the buggy. got some videos mostly of the tmaxx, battery died in camera and i didn't want to stop playing to change em. lol.
also finally, and i repeat,, finally got the tmaxx running good. i bought a carb oring kit, and went to take the carb apart to find that the allen head plug/screw one the end of the carb was stripped, so i robbed the carb from another engine just to see if it would make it better. and I'll say, she was a beast today.
one major thing i noticed and Bart said it, the 1/8 buggy has an amazing amount of power. and both of them see to be smoking a little excessive, but thats the only place they would run at, i tried leaning out the setting and it wouldn't stay running, so i can deal with some extra smoke to keep em running. and i may look at the bottle, it may have a little higher oil content than some. who knows.
i did manage to break the buggy though, this awesome engine has a header set up like my banshee had. a spring holds it to the head, well i was going along and bam, got real loud. upon farther inspection the spring had ripped through the aluminum manifold. i just drilled a few new holes in the manifold for it to hook on to.
the videos like i said are mainly of the tmaxx, i got some good air in these vids, but come to find out my best air wasn't caught on tape. managed to catch the bigger jump just right and launched that baby. it was sweet. well enough talk heres some vids

zippo855 · #76 11-02-2009, 01:37 AM

well i took some more vids today. got some better ones of the buggy and decided the tmaxx needed to see what kind of air it could get.

BART · #77 11-06-2009, 08:57 PM

Finally got to watch these, i forgot how much of a beast that ofna is. You need to gear it up a little i think. I'm taking the big F1 out tomorrow, getting ready to bleed the brakes on it.

zippo855 · #78 11-06-2009, 09:47 PM

definately wouldnt hurt to gear it up. this thing is a beast with plenty of power. i was hoping to get the full jump over the big hill, land by the concrete and launch over that to the bottom. but that vid it mananged to come down on the only spot that the ground is lower than the concrete, and stopped as you can see. need a new front bumper now, lol.

get some vids of the f1 running again, and if you get bored with it just drop it in the mail

BART · #79 11-06-2009, 10:54 PM

All you do on those is buy a larger clutch bell, no need to change the spur gear. I was thinking of selling the F1 until I got it down tonight... I think it will be buried with me.

zippo855 · #80 02-01-2010, 04:02 PM

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Originally Posted by BART

All you do on those is buy a larger clutch bell, no need to change the spur gear. I was thinking of selling the F1 until I got it down tonight... I think it will be buried with me.

i still need to get one. its on my to do list before it warms up and i can run them again. lol and yeah the f1 should be something you hang on too. i find myself gathering things to sell and then when i take the down to get pics, i end up just putting them back up.

well when i first saw this truck i wanted one, and the opportunity arose to where i could get one. so here she is, and few comparison shots to my other big ones.
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