getting the Novarossi P5 engine broken in is a PITA!

[HumboldtBlazer]

Just because you cannot see something does not mean it is not true....if a tree falls in the forest and you cannot hear it fall does that mean the tree did not fall? OF COURSE NOT....you just did not hear or see the tree fall..........

Huh? How does that explain anything? I understand when landing jumps you bounce and see two wheels for a minute but you are not wheeling from the start. No buggies do this that I have seen (and that's a hella lot of track time and buggy video watching). To say it can't happen is one thing, but most of us are saying we have never seen it and we watch/drive a lot of 4wd 1/8th buggies. Don't take us too seriously, this is the internet and all. We are glad to have you on the board so I think everyone just needs to relax a little bit and sniff some nitro .

 

[Ryan with savage]

Shheeesh you all need to chill.......whats wrong with a buggy being able to do wheelies???

Mine can....

it can also do cartwheels, forward flips and violent somersaults........although i can't actually do these to order.

 

[RustlerDood]

Huh? How does that explain anything? I understand when landing jumps you bounce and see two wheels for a minute but you are not wheeling from the start. No buggies do this that I have seen (and that's a hella lot of track time and buggy video watching). To say it can't happen is one thing, but most of us are saying we have never seen it and we watch/drive a lot of 4wd 1/8th buggies. Don't take us too seriously, this is the internet and all. We are glad to have you on the board so I think everyone just needs to relax a little bit and sniff some nitro .

I was pointing out the flawed logic of Zandor because he is under the impression if he does not see it for himself there is no way it could have happened which is clearly not true under the example I have given above.

The buggy has pulled a wheelie from a standing start as well (once mind you)...I will explain the conditions a little better. At the track at which this happened has a ton of traction for dirt. You have a table top jump which I clear and then you have to hit the brakes for a 180 degree turn...right after the turn you have a small single that you need to roll to get the best time and then once you hit the base of the single you grab WOT to blast across the whoops section. After the single and before the whoops section there is about 5 ft of track and at the base of the single I grabbed WOT and the front wheels lifted clearly off the ground until I hit the first whoops. My Pit guy turned around and said "I have never seen a 1/8 buggy pull a wheelie anywhere before and you have done it twice on the same day." I was like "I dunno I didn't change my throttle points at all."

 

[HumboldtBlazer]

We are all being dumb at this point (including myself), lets all move on

 

[RustlerDood]

We are all being dumb at this point (including myself), lets all move on

.............

 

[Buncrana]

Zandor, a bit of advice get a grip and realize a buggy doing a wheelie is not that big of a deal..........

Seriously Zandor, WTF is your problem here? If my R40 can do wheelies then so can his buggy. Of course my R40 has the same engine as the monster beatle and uses NOS.


Lokk what I found, actual footage of the buggy doing wheelies :redbuggy:









:jk:

 

[mikeburgin]

awww damn still half a tub left corrado,
I gotto admit that even my buggy on a semi grippy track running 90000000000000000 weight center dif oil has been known to keep the front off the ground most of the way down the front straight

 

[CorradoPsi]

is that on its 39th or 40th gallon of nitro mike?

 

[mikeburgin]

is that on its 39th or 40th gallon of nitro mike?

lol nah about the 1000 gallon piston was rattling like a dried pee in an old tin can


on a more serious note you can get a buggy to wheel stand but you have to have serious locking in the center dif, and normally a little assistance from a bump

 

[Plaidfish]

See a respected member has even seen this wheelie phenomenom....I'm sorry guys but I have read this guys threads and maybe I'm missing something here but I don't take his posts the same as the rest of you.....I understand trying to get some proof out of him but if you guys started in on me like this I know I'd think what the fiddlesticks do I need to prove.....I think everyone came down a lil hard on the guy.....the race results are a lil suspicious...I mean I'm no racer (yet) and I 've been using my buggy every other week 2-3 nights at the track trying to get psyched to enter my first race and I know I'm gonna suck ass....even when I'm running great practice runs w/ people I know it's just not the same as an actual race....but IF this guy has actually been racing other vehicles (especially other RCs) since he was 5 then I'd have to lean more towards his side of the story......I have said it before and I'll say it here now...I HAVE seen a K3 w/ an RB WS72 pull wheelies on track.....not some whole 50 ft of wheelie but it yanked the front up for a good few feet as it was hauling ass...Now this is the only part I find hard to swallow the buggy almost flipping over part.....I don't think so front wheels lifting up yes, lifting to the point of flipping the car sounds like a bit of an exageration nothing more....now IF I am not going to feel obligated to go hunt people down to say "hey I need to film your buggy doing this so a bunch of people on the internet will accept me"....I am not trying to pick on any one person cause IMO this issue has snowballed needlessly and should just be slowed down....hope this doesn't bring the fire on me....I'm just expressing my opinion and that's what a forum should be about....

 

[vgibbens]

Well, to get this thread back on it's intended path, I've run the first 5 tanks in my new P5 at no more than half throttle. I then ran two more tanks with short full throttle runs. I've leaned the LSN so that there is no hesitation on take off, and I've leaned the HSN so that I still get good smoke along with the speed. The only thing is, the engine will not go over 200°F. I did still leave both needles a little rich and wasn't planning on leaning it out anymore 'til around the tenth tank. I do need to adjust my idle as I think it's a tad high, but my damn pipe is in the way. I'll have to take off my pipe to adjust the idle. It did take me about an hour and a half just to get the motor started.