[evil_malum]

Well I took my NTC3 up to my old high school parking lot, we're talking 2 football fields side by side type size. Well I was tuning it and seeing it has a pull start Nitro .15 SS, I left the body off so that if it stalled I could easily restart it. Well I had her ripping across the parking lot in second gear for a good 500 feet when the battery pack flew out and the servo stuck wide open. She drove right off the parking lot into a patch of un mowed grass doing four end over end flips. Take into account my wife just got me this car and I lectured her about not wrecking it when she was driving. Talk about irony. Here's some damage pics






needless to say I'm upgrading to all aluminum control arms and shock towers, but the irony of the whole thing. My wife has now called my whole family and told them the story and I live in shame as my new toy has come to it's first fate..... Many more to come though I assure you.


sincerely,

eViL.......

Any suggestions as to fail safe servos?

[Quinton]

That's why I sold my on-road and no one knows I play with big boy toys. LOL I don't want the embarrassment.

[C.J.OO]

Not a bad first crash the hobby shop is gonna love you..Its pretty scary the first time your car decides take itself for a spin hey...just standing there with radio in hand and mouth wide open and eyes wide shut waiting for the inevetable sound of your car hitting somthing solid at WOT..Its good to catch that sort of stuff on vidio so you can have a good laugh about it later on..he he he good one Evil...

[atm92484_3]

Originally Posted by evil_malum

needless to say I'm upgrading to all aluminum control arms and shock towers...

Nice work; it looks pretty bad, but before you spend the money on heavy and expensive aluminum parts, add up the total cost of repairs for the car. Judging from those pics, it looks like there is no more than $30-$40 worth of total damage; aluminum on the other hand may have bent or caused damage to more expensive parts.

[C.J.OO]

Originally Posted by Quinton

That's why I sold my on-road and no one knows I play with big boy toys. LOL I don't want the embarrassment.

Embarrasment??? Im 27 years old and am damn proud of my nitro collection..I dont play with GIjoes or anything just RC..Id be ashamed of myself if I still played with dolls but I hope to never grow out of NITRO RC it will be a sad sad day when I have to sell my BIG BOYS TOYS..

[Madmann135]

Look on the bright side...it could have been worse...OK it couldn't but it was a learning experience.

Just tell everyone that you learned from it and you are a better driver because of it.

[TJNMT]

Can you say Throttle return spring, been using them for the past 10+ years. It will only cost you about .50 for one.

[Joe Brinduse]

Originally Posted by C.J.OO

Embarrasment??? Im 27 years old and am damn proud of my nitro collection..I dont play with GIjoes or anything just RC..Id be ashamed of myself if I still played with dolls but I hope to never grow out of NITRO RC it will be a sad sad day when I have to sell my BIG BOYS TOYS..

i am 31 and have 6 nitro cars and trucks i haft to have my big boy toys

[spyderman02]

a good crash always brings you closer to your car, seen a ntc3 get hit by a serpent impact. the impact was at wide open throttle, the tc3 made 2 flips, and slid 20 plus feet. you got the record for flips in my book. aluminium a-arms, think about sheer factor in a crash.

[evil_malum]

Originally Posted by TJNMT

Can you say Throttle return spring, been using them for the past 10+ years. It will only cost you about .50 for one.

It has one, but it didn't return the throttle like it was suppose to. Thanks for the support guys, still think I need the a arms aluminum, there 8 bux for the rear upper 8 for the rear lower front and back so 32 total for the control arms and the shock towers are like 15 a pop. I just closed my eyes and cringed, thats about all i could do.

[FlashLCD33]

Like ATM said, i'd go with the plastic arms. The aluminum will be stronger but instead of flexing or breaking like plastic will, they'll bend or put all the stress on a weaker part.

Put a long zip tie all the way around your 4 cell AA holder to keep your AAs in if you're using the 4 cell AA holder still.

[SpeedballTrix]

It could easily have been worse.
He's lucky he got into some unmowed grass and stopped the car.
That thing could've kept on going straight into a wall.
The repairs then would've been alot more than $40.

[Pacoson]

Well, sorry for the loss, but it could have been worse! your wife could have been driving it, then you would still be out the car AND be mad at someone else.
(at least you will get sympathy love from her!).

[evil_malum]

haha you dont know my wife all that well, no sympathy love from her. She just laughed at me and said "In this BIIIIG a$$ parking lot and you managed to break it" but yeah could have been WAY worse.

[maxxamillion]

Nice crash, but relatively minor lol. I had a similar wreck in my learning days(before TRS)with my GT. The battery pack fell out(slipped out past the zip ties), took off at full throttle(apprx. 50 yds.), hit a jersey barrier(next to the bmx track I was playing at) at full speed.
Now I can run pretty fast lol, but right as I came up to my GT, screaming at some ungodly rpm, that puppy seized in front of my very eyes. The old tub chassis fully buckled. That was a full rebuild!!
I too, have had a TRS not adjusted right, and not close the carb in a time of need.

[wgbackyardbashr]

have fun.

[Maxx_A_Million]

well... before you gt all aluminum stuff, i reccomend a TRS! also a failsafe. . .

i was running the 4th little breakin run with my brand new XTM 24.7... i was soo happy. . . i had just replaced my throttle servo and i was starting to lean it and get some power and my damn crystal popped out and send my truck across my neighborhood at 42 mph. . . it shredded the spur gear and the engine sounded just like the one in slapmafro's "scream" and it turned the bottom end of the conrod into 6 peices (and counting)...

it was liek seeing my first born child be puched off a cliff. . . man i was... uhh. . . "extatic"? is that a good word? something that means "royally freaked out and dperessed and anxious and in total disbeleif and disarray" all at the same time. . .

i was that. . .

at least youre looking at $50 worth fo replacing. . . im looking at a new psiton, sleeve, conrod and wrist pin and i hope the conrod comes with the lower bushing. . . i need one of those too...

feel lucky. . .

ED: yeah... i need a TRS and a failsafe too. . . heh

btw, this was only... this past tuesday...

[maxxamillion]

Uh oh, us Maxxamillions' got a runaway problem! Sheesh! lol
I hope you get your 24.7 back in action soon, 1ST Maxx_A_Million.
Sincerely,
2nd Maxxamillion

[Maxx_A_Million]

haha...

my borhter just got a savage .25 so me and him could race when we goto FL for vacation this year adn he REALLY doesnt want to ahve to chare his truck so hes gonna get me a new conrod, p/s and wrist pin...

how the crap do i get those wrist pin cips back in?

[NitroBoy24]

Ouch! Like a lot of other people have said though it could have been worse!

I have only broken a rear shock tower on my ntc3..It involves me being a moron+a skateboard ramp and the neighbors front yard

Last week I was driving it at Id say around 35 mph when I hit a blue reflector thing in the middle of our street. The car flew about 3 to 4 feet up in the air and hit the ground, flipped, cartwheeled, you named it and the battery box flew out. And like you I didnt have a body on. Somehow I didnt break a single part and luckily didnt have a runaway.

Have fun buying hopups for the ntc3 and buy a failsafe!!

[evil_malum]

Well it looks like I'm going to do a complete rebuild, so keep posted for updates. I'll let you know what happens. All aluminum + new engine + new servos ect. ect. so the car will be out of commision a while.

[yz25098uk]

if you start adding strength by using aluminium parts, all that happens is an impact's force, just moves to the next weakest part, so unless your going to make every thing much stronger, including the chassis, then your chasing your tail,. and the plastic original parts aint to expensive..
cheers
bruce
(36!!!!! and loves his cen 1/10th nitro subaru 4X4 rally impezza!!)

[NitroBoy24]

Originally Posted by yz25098uk

if you start adding strength by using aluminium parts, all that happens is an impact's force, just moves to the next weakest part, so unless your going to make every thing much stronger, including the chassis, then your chasing your tail,. and the plastic original parts aint to expensive..

Very true ^^ If you add aluminum parts then the next time you crash all the strain will be on something else that is going to be plastic.

[evil_malum]

Well as you see my Diffs are already aluminum, my control arms will be aluminum, my control arm mounts aluminum, shock tower aluminum, chassis already alluminum. I dont see where any weak point would be.

[Maxx_A_Million]

then the expensive stuff will bend or break... lol...
or just wear out over time...

if you break the aluminum, upgrade to tianium! haha!