has anyone

[mr_bob]

has anyone converted ele to nitro

has anyone around these forums ever converted an electric car to a nitro car

well i want to my neighbor has a electric buggy and wants to go nitro but the buggy is in great condition so he doesn't want to go out and buy a new one

so i was wondering if someone here has ever converted one and if so can u post pics or explain how u did so

 

[vbgagnon]

Sounds like it would be alot of work, let us know how it goes.

 

[FastEddy]

Please be more descriptive in the title of your posts.
You will get a lot more responses.
-Ed

 

[olds97_lss]

He would probably be better off just buying the nitro almost ready to run equivalent of the same buggy, then use the parts off the electric as backup and to get it finished out. Like the arms, shocktowers, steering linkage, servo's, radio... He will still save $ and will have a better setup in the end.

In most of these things, the transmission and layout is so different that it just isn't cost and time effective to convert them.

Just a thought.

 

[Nitro_Freak]

pointless. you'll spend probably $500 and LOTS of hours trying to make everything work and fit when you can buy a new nitro for $300. not worth it

 

[cvec7]

Please be more descriptive in the title of your posts.
You will get a lot more responses.
-Ed

You'd think he'd have learned that by now after posting the same thread on another forum and having a moderator complain about the same thing.... :hammer:

Anyway, converting a electric buggy into a nitro one is completly pointless, just buy a nitro car.

 

[Hypedonrc]

pointless. you'll spend probably $500 and LOTS of hours trying to make everything work and fit when you can buy a new nitro for $300. not worth it

I agree.

Besides, if he buys a nitro, then he will have two, and when one if broke he will have the other to drive.

I'm not a big fan of electric, but a friend of mine has a B3 that rips for an electric. It's a good back up for when the nitro is down.

 

[AC48]

I agree aswell, for all the time and effort he would put in, it wouldn't ever really work properly in the end. Electrics aren't made to handle the hp of a nitro engine and it isn't set up for it. I doubt it would ever run very good. Just buy a nitro and have two

 

[cbreaker]

I've never really heard of anyone doing such a thing. If you look closely at an electric vehicle compared to a nitro one, chances are you'll see a lot of places where there's plastic on the electric where there's metal on the nitro. Nitro motors have lots of torque and a lot of power. They are heavy. They need the stronger parts.

My RC10T3 looks a lot like a GT when the lids are on, but they are so different under the hood that basically you're looking at replacing almost everything anyways, and that's the best case scenerio.