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  • kfxguy
    Fast Electric Addict!
    • Oct 2013
    • 8746
    #1

    Like father, like son. ..gotta see this!

    Well I guess my 14 year old has the speed bug like I do. I get a text today with a picture of my gps Saying 75.8mph. He tells me now I beat your buggies speed. Time to beat your boat. Lol. I get home from work today and he's done borrowed my x01 pinion, found two 3s battery packs (mismatched lol) and made a Y adaptor and plug adaptor for it even tho he really doesn't know how to solder. He's 14, btw. I was teaching him a little bit about soldering last weekend. So he keeps telling me he's going to beat my speed. I kept laughing at him. I think the best he got was around 60mph. It's a kyosho inferno nitro buggy I converted for him to electric.

    He took me outside to show me how fast. I got pissed. Not because it was fast, because it was just stupid. He could control it and there's kids that play outside all the time. I immediately thought about what could happen. So I decided to take him down the road to a straight away...away from everyone so he could get it out his system because as of now he's not allowed to drive the thing on our street. Here's his wiring shenanigans (lol, hey it worked!)



    And in case you don't care to watch the video...

    32" carbon rivercat single 4s 102mph, 27” mini Rivercat 92mph, kbb34 91mph, jessej micro cat(too fast) was
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    • kfxguy
      Fast Electric Addict!
      • Oct 2013
      • 8746
      #2
      Last edited by kfxguy; 08-19-2014, 10:10 PM.
      32" carbon rivercat single 4s 102mph, 27” mini Rivercat 92mph, kbb34 91mph, jessej micro cat(too fast) was

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        • Spartanator
          Fast Electric Addict!
          • Oct 2013
          • 1060
          #3
          Originally posted by kfxguy
          Reserved for video
          I just watched it on YouTube! So guess your reserve was early! lol. Thing is fast!
          Why are you bothering me? I want to see your boat!
          32" CF Rivercat--- built by "kfxguy" (SOLD)

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            • kfxguy
              Fast Electric Addict!
              • Oct 2013
              • 8746
              #4
              Originally posted by Spartanator
              I just watched it on YouTube! So guess your reserve was early! lol. Thing is fast!
              Video posted. Yea, it's fast and he did it mostly himself. How about this...he has a 4000mah 20c pack and a 5400mah 20 pack running in series. Lol. He kept checking the voltage every run. He said he read about it on the Internet. Lmao!
              32" carbon rivercat single 4s 102mph, 27” mini Rivercat 92mph, kbb34 91mph, jessej micro cat(too fast) was

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                • Doug Smock
                  Moderator
                  • Apr 2007
                  • 5272
                  #5
                  Nice!
                  Not trying to be critical but that uninsulated Deans connector is an accident looking for a place to happen.
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                    • kfxguy
                      Fast Electric Addict!
                      • Oct 2013
                      • 8746
                      #6
                      Originally posted by Doug Smock
                      Nice!
                      Not trying to be critical but that uninsulated Deans connector is an accident looking for a place to happen.
                      O I know. I told him no more running it till I look it over. I didn't see that till I took the pic!
                      32" carbon rivercat single 4s 102mph, 27” mini Rivercat 92mph, kbb34 91mph, jessej micro cat(too fast) was

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                        • Doug Smock
                          Moderator
                          • Apr 2007
                          • 5272
                          #7
                          I know how it is, I had a 14 year old son once. You have to watch them like a hawk.
                          MODEL BOAT RACER
                          IMPBA President
                          District 13 Director 2011- present
                          IMPBA National Records Director 2009-2019
                          IMPBA 19887L CD
                          NAMBA 1169

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                            • kfxguy
                              Fast Electric Addict!
                              • Oct 2013
                              • 8746
                              #8
                              Btw, electronics in the car is a sidewinder 8th combo. 2200kv 1515 motor and the new sidewinder 8 esc.
                              32" carbon rivercat single 4s 102mph, 27” mini Rivercat 92mph, kbb34 91mph, jessej micro cat(too fast) was

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                                • iridebikes247
                                  Fast Electric Addict!
                                  • Dec 2011
                                  • 1449
                                  #9
                                  pretty awesome. some kids have a knack for stuff more so than the adults even lol.
                                  Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSr...6EH3l3zT6mWHsw

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                                    • kfxguy
                                      Fast Electric Addict!
                                      • Oct 2013
                                      • 8746
                                      #10
                                      Update. I held the speed record for one day....I did 87.3 yesterday with my boat...so I passed him up. I made him a better y harness and let him use my venom 5000 50c packs....we'll here's the result...

                                      32" carbon rivercat single 4s 102mph, 27” mini Rivercat 92mph, kbb34 91mph, jessej micro cat(too fast) was

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                                        • Spartanator
                                          Fast Electric Addict!
                                          • Oct 2013
                                          • 1060
                                          #11
                                          I don't even know how I would drive that thing that fast! I would be scared to annihilate it! lol

                                          Originally posted by iridebikes247
                                          pretty awesome. some kids have a knack for stuff more so than the adults even lol.
                                          Yep, sure beats sitting on the playbox all day eating Twinkies! lol. I like toys that move!
                                          Why are you bothering me? I want to see your boat!
                                          32" CF Rivercat--- built by "kfxguy" (SOLD)

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                                            • kfxguy
                                              Fast Electric Addict!
                                              • Oct 2013
                                              • 8746
                                              #12
                                              Originally posted by Spartanator
                                              I don't even know how I would drive that thing that fast! I would be scared to annihilate it! lol



                                              Yep, sure beats sitting on the playbox all day eating Twinkies! lol. I like toys that move!
                                              Man that thing was flying and twitching down the road at 92 mph with $200 worth of my batteries, my gps and my semi expensive street tires....lol....I was stressing! That thing whooshed by like a rocket! All I could think about at that time was all that money if he hits a reflector in the road....and me or him getting hit. I hit myself with a lighter buggy several months ago at 60mph and it messed me up pretty bad. Couldn't walk on my foot for days. I got laughed at, at work.

                                              Next test will be some Maxx amp 150c batteries....ought to pick up a few mph.
                                              32" carbon rivercat single 4s 102mph, 27” mini Rivercat 92mph, kbb34 91mph, jessej micro cat(too fast) was

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                                                • kfxguy
                                                  Fast Electric Addict!
                                                  • Oct 2013
                                                  • 8746
                                                  #13
                                                  32" carbon rivercat single 4s 102mph, 27” mini Rivercat 92mph, kbb34 91mph, jessej micro cat(too fast) was

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                                                    • Spartanator
                                                      Fast Electric Addict!
                                                      • Oct 2013
                                                      • 1060
                                                      #14
                                                      Like father, like son. ..gotta see this!

                                                      I've hit myself before but "only" at 40. My truck hit a puddle, lost traction and came at me! Lol.
                                                      Maybe the twitchy could be fixed with a stronger servo or some small tweaks? Did you balance the wheels?
                                                      You need a roll cage for it so if it flips it doesn't kill everything. I've thought about MaxAmps but some "say" they have a overblown C rating which yay or nay on that since I have never got my "grubby" hands on em! Lol
                                                      Why are you bothering me? I want to see your boat!
                                                      32" CF Rivercat--- built by "kfxguy" (SOLD)

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                                                        • ray schrauwen
                                                          Fast Electric Addict!
                                                          • Apr 2007
                                                          • 9471
                                                          #15
                                                          Awesome story. Reminds me of me back then...

                                                          Try some REVO cells, you'll pass 100mph.
                                                          Nortavlag Bulc

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