If your worried about shock boots you can make your own from balloons. Grab a pack of the long balloon's and stretch it over the spring then trim off the ridge end and cut off the sealed end leaving a few mm to tuck inside the spring at top an bottom , put the spring back on the shock an job done. No more moisture and dirt to contaminate the shock oil.
Can also remove the connector on the end of the rod, slide the boot on, then screw the connector back on. Little more time consuming than the balloon trick, but works great if you want the slightly more durable boots. Either way works, so it's really more of the builder's preference.
Kev, if you found this menu difficult, you haven't seen anything yet ! If you buy good and expensive parts, they all work ! Cheap nitro engines are a pain even for experienced tuners because of the tolerances ! For new RC enthusiasts, always buy proper gear, cheap is expensive !
This is absolutely correct bro! I bought my first mugen mbx7t and never looked back. Got rid of all my other stuff and got tekno kits and still have a revo but otherwise 1/8 kits are the best for racing,bashing and anything else really
A word of advice from someone with 20+years of nitro experience .patience is a must .pretty simple to get going get the car get batterys in receiver and controller get your glow starter charged fill your fuel tank with the correct nitro fuel .put glow starter in the top of the engine head pump fuel through to engine .and pull pull start after a few pulls the engine should fire up .tuning the engine if it needs tuning can be tricky though .good luck 👍
I'd like to say you are FAR from a novice with rc, Kevin! You have more experience with more models then most any of us and your constantly wrenching on them! If there's 1 person I'd entrust to wrench on my rigs it'd be you lol. You can easily see the amazing handling of that mp10t vs what you normally rip around with. One amazing piece of kit! Running beautifully as well
@@rockncoop665 HiS engines? I do. He is aware of what he is doing to his motors and is aware it isn't good for them. He has the knowledge to do it correctly, he just doesn't care. I'm sure if he were tooling on someone's rig who did care then so would he.
thumbs up for having trays/bins for all the various bags. If you've never built a kit before that's THE way to do it....I put the tag from the bag in the bin so I know which is which. Makes assembly SO much easier. Get a bunch from the dollar store with lids so you can keep the spare parts arranged after you're done.
I have a Picco in my Kyosho MP9 and I struggled to make it sing. The shop who sold the engine to me got Mick to work his magic on it, and now it's brilliant. He has the Midas touch with engines.
I love the Kyosho content. They make some nice quality rc cars even some of their higher end rtr’s are really good. I think some people sleep on these brands but don’t see the quality and experience that goes into these. Love this build and truggy Kev!
Yeah, kyoshos are pretty sweet, I've checked them out at one of the semi-LHS and even when looking at it next to the Typhon 6s, the kyosho honestly looks higher quality, something about it just gives that impression, I got a hobao hyper sste and I love it, super durable and handles amazing, light weight and fast
@@restinpiecesrc5528All modern 1/8th scale buggies are based on the Kyosho Burns and original Infernos. Kyosho and Yuichi Kanai designed the elements of a 1/8th buggy that are still used to this day. Kyosho is the grandfather of them all.
Wouldn't we all rc racer, many old timers who are anti everything not racing will be impressed. Racing is not a club sport. It is a solo sport. And this is the problem
After rebuilding so many arrma, the quality of these kyosho buggies are quite impressive. Also those servos might be strong but they don't look particularly fast for racing
Love to see build vids. These are super fun to watch! Especially cuz you take em out after! It always bugs me when you watch guys build these things to sit on a shelf...😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
We need more on these kyosho kits kev there out of this world maybe buy a modified novarossi 28.8 or p5 or even the roma .25 either one of them would be awesome
Awesome. I been racing all Tekno cars all electric 1/8th scales, but I just built a Nitro NB48 2.1Tekno buggy this is getting me motivated to finish my car and jump in the deep end trying to figure out how to tune it and drive a nitro. You rock Kev
With shock boots I put a very small drop of shock fluid inside the small end of the boot,, roll in fingers to lube the bottom end of boot inside, then slide it all in place and clean and wipe off ecsess . Right way or not it works for me. Happy bashing kev
Awesome stuff Kev! I love Kyosho gear, it's just quality. Yeah with a bearing going into a hole that tight, do check it to see if it is still spinning freely. They can crush enough so that they run lumpy and gritty, Though I'm sure you know that.
Get yourself a small copper mallet, or a small length of copper rod 10-12mm dia to use with a normal hammer to knock in those hard to install bearings Kev
I am telling you. If we had the modern nitro stuff that we have today back in the 90s nitro would never have died off. Nowadays you can start the engine easily, engines are more reliable and easy to tune, modern fuels that are filled with anti-rust additives. The list goes on
Gona have to try nitro again, the last time I played with nitro engines was in mid 2000’s….. and like you say, they were fiddly, hard to tune, and if you didn’t run the engine often it would corrode and gunk up from the fuel…. Absolute pain in the arse, but still very fun. Also I was using crystal remote controls which weren’t the most reliable back then just to make it even more exciting
Hey Kevin Alex kowaliuk here I love these race vehicles even the nitros seem much more usable than a 200 dollar nitro with the blue top that just ether won't run but a couple times or just completely blow up
I want to get one for my 80 year old dad to build it will help keep his mind active and sharp he loves your vids wishes you would go easy on the bearings 😂
suggest you setup the failsafe on the transmitter if it has the capability. you should be able to set it, to test, turn off the transmitter, you should see the throttle servo revert to brakes. turn back on, back to idle. thats what i do with my nitro on futaba systems
Nailed the tuning! Nice work 💪. Can't wait to see the track study of your car set up vs a pros! Great idea. Done this myself and it's a crazy difference. Love the higher end engines they respond appropriately to carb adjustments and have a very big "tuned" window. Like MTD vs Husqvarna.... one works everytime predictable and reliable
I like when you said these kyosho kits handle better then any of the basher kits of today!!! I totally agree!. Most folks wouldn’t understand unless you were into the hobby all through the 1990s and 80s a little. tamiya and kyosho are my all time favorite brands..wish mrc or Marui made it :( and allot of folks dog traxxas but they been there since the beginning..
I've been into RC from 1991 I miss the days of building Tamiya lol. Crap remember mechanical speed controllers .. My first Nitro Was Team Associated Rc10GT it was a beast Built it my self at 12....... And yes back in the beginning Traxxas was dogged. The good ol days of 6 foot long antennas.
@@rome8153 I still have my rc10 t3 I raced with back in the nineties lol ya ther was a couple different mechanical speed controls and they all served they’re purpose and folks today don’t know what a potentiometer means!?? ya everyone loves these armma and all the rtr kits but what happened to the good ole days when u really had to build your hobby grade kit if u wanted a real rc race car!??? And if u wanted rtr u could get an amazingly built tyco or Nikko truck that was close to a hobby grade and you could just run it..
@@f.chrisliuzzo7889 Damn man blast from the past!!!!!!! The days when ball bearings cost extra and electronic speed controllers cost as much as the radio... The game has changed in so many ways..... Getting the Hobby Catalogs was the best time... Having today's options then would have been awesome 👍
@@rome8153 just love those old days going to the local hobby shop get catalogs and look for hours and days in them dreaming about the cool cars and parts like electronic ESC servos and stuff. lots of people got spoiled by internet and RTRs now days and can just buy a car and run it, in terms of broadening the hobby for the guy that dont wrench and build a kit car RTRs is for fact a good thing for the hobby that keeps it alive in that rc is not just racing and polish laptimes.
Most people today don’t even know that all these modern 1/8th scale buggies and their layout and design is based of Kyosho designs from the late 80’s and early 90’s. Kyosho is by far KING in the 1/8th scale buggy realm. More 1/8th world championships than any other brand.
Ya just cant beat the old school starter boxes. Looking at this Buggies really haven't changed since my PB Mustang 2 from way back in the 80's. Different shock towers and positions , no top radio plate and no upper link between the front and rear differentials. Far better plastics, no bumpers and everything that needs to be drilled or fitted in the kit. The old kits never had linkages or even diagrams of them you had to get piano wire or bicycle spokes and make them yourself. I remember my first RC500 Associated kit was so crude that the suspension arms didn't even have pivot holes drilled in them. An absolute pain when it came to setup.
Get one of those gyroscopic screwdrivers and you can skip the ugga dugga entirely, it uses your wrist motion to control speed so you can feel the tightness of the screw same as a regular driver while still being pretty fast. Super handy for RC cars.
The kyosho MP10T is a great looking Truggy. I've been window shopping one for awhile now lol. I just converted an old kyosho inferno neo st 2.0 I have over to brushless, it has a lot of potential according to some forums I've read about it. I got the Truck in a Rc lot I picked up a long time ago and it was missing the Nitro engine so I figured it was like mak for a good brushless conversion project.
Hey Kev! Great vids as always. My morning tea and coffee is always accompanied by your videos. With the shock sleeves, couldn’t you lube them with a dry lube and slide on or do they not serve that well as functional? Seems like they would trap a lot of dirt. It’s the first time I’ve seen them. For that matter, anyone who sees this please comment. 😂
What up from Seattle Kev!? I’ve been rockin wit you for a while… I’d hardly say you’re a novice concerning anything rc car. You ain’t foolin me!😂 One love brutha…
Man, I love the look of that it’s Beautiful I went to order a electric kyosho truggy that looks like this but the body doesn’t look nowhere near as good as this one
Huge difference when you use top quality nitro engines.. Back in the day (late 80's early 90's) with 1/8th scale buggies I used a few different types and they all had issues. Magnums loved breaking cranks lol. Went to a race spec OS RX-B .21 and it made the world of difference. And the power and suprise suprise...they held a tune for more than a tank of fuel lol. Good luck with racing that kit looks spectacular out of the box!!!
I gotta swar by kyosho tho. I built a VR1 corvette of theirs way back in the day and it always ran like a top. I haven't run it for years due to no nitro available where I live but I bet it still runs like a champ.
This so much, cheap nitro engines are likely one of the reason so many people dislike them and think they are a pain. Recently bought an XRAY NT18 with a 0.8ccm engine thats made in Japan and holy moly that thing was easy to tune. Even with piss poor settings it would at least still run and not suddenly stop out of nowhere as I experienced with Force Engines.
kev i think the reason that "seems to make it worse " when you set it up is because you don't do that as much as the other people because you set up, fix, and run bashers you don't rcs much but i think after a while if you set up more and race more you would get better.
On the subject of radios, that is exactly why I prefer an old school analog dial. Way easier to adjust. You don't have to stop, make a phone call, get a manual, watch a video, and then spend 30 minutes clicking through a bunch of nonsense to make an adjustment.
cant say im disappointed about todays radios in terms of handling and what can and cant be done to them i terms of endpoints and stuff like my futaba 3pv compared to the old hitec lynx its miles apart.
There is nothing more fun tan building a really good quality RC kit. I usually buy them, build them, then sell and start over cuz I just enjoy the fiddling.
Kevin if you ever want to stop a motor from turning over when you need to tighten something? Use rope. I do that alot in small engines. Stuff it down the spark plug hole, or exhaust like you said. It's soft, and it won't do any damage. 🙂
If your worried about shock boots you can make your own from balloons. Grab a pack of the long balloon's and stretch it over the spring then trim off the ridge end and cut off the sealed end leaving a few mm to tuck inside the spring at top an bottom , put the spring back on the shock an job done. No more moisture and dirt to contaminate the shock oil.
In atvs and bikes it also helps keep from getting the piston rod dented by rocks and crap, love me some shock covers.
About to do this on my K8S. Awesome bit of advice. Thanks 👍👍
Can also remove the connector on the end of the rod, slide the boot on, then screw the connector back on. Little more time consuming than the balloon trick, but works great if you want the slightly more durable boots. Either way works, so it's really more of the builder's preference.
Oh man. Wow. My brain never even thought about the long balloons. I feel like a doofus that never crossed my mind.
@@TheDogGoesWoof69 don't know why you bring up that topic. Kinda out of the blue.
O.S. , Picco, Rossi were among the best race engines in the 90s.
Kit building has its place , really know how your car works
How about now? What brands are best?
@@ocelee7794 O.S. engines are still in production.. not sure about the others.
Kev, if you found this menu difficult, you haven't seen anything yet ! If you buy good and expensive parts, they all work ! Cheap nitro engines are a pain even for experienced tuners because of the tolerances ! For new RC enthusiasts, always buy proper gear, cheap is expensive !
This is absolutely correct bro! I bought my first mugen mbx7t and never looked back. Got rid of all my other stuff and got tekno kits and still have a revo but otherwise 1/8 kits are the best for racing,bashing and anything else really
Hello can you please tell kev to get the legendary traiton
if almost 700$ isnt expensive to you, then idk what to tell ya
I bought a nitro last week and I am struggling to say the least lol I got the ‘Backwash’ from nitrotek. Are you able to help me out at all?
A word of advice from someone with 20+years of nitro experience .patience is a must .pretty simple to get going get the car get batterys in receiver and controller get your glow starter charged fill your fuel tank with the correct nitro fuel .put glow starter in the top of the engine head pump fuel through to engine .and pull pull start after a few pulls the engine should fire up .tuning the engine if it needs tuning can be tricky though .good luck 👍
I'd like to say you are FAR from a novice with rc, Kevin! You have more experience with more models then most any of us and your constantly wrenching on them! If there's 1 person I'd entrust to wrench on my rigs it'd be you lol. You can easily see the amazing handling of that mp10t vs what you normally rip around with. One amazing piece of kit! Running beautifully as well
Do you not see how he treats his nitro engines?
@@rockncoop665 HiS engines? I do. He is aware of what he is doing to his motors and is aware it isn't good for them. He has the knowledge to do it correctly, he just doesn't care. I'm sure if he were tooling on someone's rig who did care then so would he.
thumbs up for having trays/bins for all the various bags. If you've never built a kit before that's THE way to do it....I put the tag from the bag in the bin so I know which is which. Makes assembly SO much easier.
Get a bunch from the dollar store with lids so you can keep the spare parts arranged after you're done.
or for the smaller 1:10 cars a muffin tray with different compartments work.
@@extec101 yeah I used a muffin tray in the past as well but you can't put a lid on it hence why I went to the dollar store bins.
Soak the rubber dust covers for the shocks in hot water for a couple of minutes, makes them easier to put on without tearing. 👍
I have a Picco in my Kyosho MP9 and I struggled to make it sing. The shop who sold the engine to me got Mick to work his magic on it, and now it's brilliant. He has the Midas touch with engines.
I don't even own a rc car but love watching Kevin
Buy one,loads of fun
Kevin is the only UA-camr that doesn’t make me bored while watching him
I agree those sanwa radios are difficult to understand and use, but they are great when you finished the adjustments.
Holly crow that thing runs great. I'm the kinda guy who loves putting them together. That would have been alot of fun. That looks really cool!
I love the Kyosho content. They make some nice quality rc cars even some of their higher end rtr’s are really good. I think some people sleep on these brands but don’t see the quality and experience that goes into these. Love this build and truggy Kev!
Yeah, kyoshos are pretty sweet, I've checked them out at one of the semi-LHS and even when looking at it next to the Typhon 6s, the kyosho honestly looks higher quality, something about it just gives that impression, I got a hobao hyper sste and I love it, super durable and handles amazing, light weight and fast
@@restinpiecesrc5528 Hobao are great rc cars high quality and strong! I need to get one. Had a buggy years ago and it was tough!
@@restinpiecesrc5528All modern 1/8th scale buggies are based on the Kyosho Burns and original Infernos. Kyosho and Yuichi Kanai designed the elements of a 1/8th buggy that are still used to this day. Kyosho is the grandfather of them all.
That kit looks awesome to build, such good quality. I remember building serpent and x-ray cars back in the day and they were a joy to put together.
Kev making nitro great again
😂
respect kevin, your a pure blood
Alex kowaliuk here from America what do you mean pure blood ??
I'd love to see more nitro racing from you kev.
Wouldn't we all rc racer, many old timers who are anti everything not racing will be impressed. Racing is not a club sport. It is a solo sport. And this is the problem
After rebuilding so many arrma, the quality of these kyosho buggies are quite impressive. Also those servos might be strong but they don't look particularly fast for racing
I love those kits because you can build them one piece at a time and they come with better parts
wow this car looks real quality.
Back in the 80's I always wanted an Inferno, and an Avanti, and a Clodbuster, and...
Love to see build vids. These are super fun to watch! Especially cuz you take em out after! It always bugs me when you watch guys build these things to sit on a shelf...😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
its cool with shelf warmers if its a old car or raire one but as you say its nice to see someone running the cars some times.
Loving all the nitro content Kev, let’s make Nitro great again!!
In the words of Kevin. YES!
Il caso dove non sapere nulla di modellismo ha portato successo
Complimenti 👍🏻
I made shock covers for my hpi Baja outta bike inner tubes. Tight fit and held up really well. Never had one come loose as well.
Keep getting these hot racers, no bashsrs from now on
Just a build tip. Put the shock boots on before the shock ends. Also make sure to oil the air filter. Didn’t look like it had any on it.
I just had a crazy idea for Kevvie:
Now build a LIFE SIZE version lol. I mean literally. Do it piece by piece and drive it!!!
I'm glad that the car has worked out really well and runs great! I love it when a plan comes together!
Till this day I could watch your vids for hours
We need more on these kyosho kits kev there out of this world maybe buy a modified novarossi 28.8 or p5 or even the roma .25 either one of them would be awesome
Those Picco engines are awesome.
Damn Kyosho and their bell crank steering setup
Thats the best tuning job you've ever done Kev! Perfect smoke, no bogging, zippy response and consistent idle. Well done sir!
Awesome. I been racing all Tekno cars all electric 1/8th scales, but I just built a Nitro NB48 2.1Tekno buggy this is getting me motivated to finish my car and jump in the deep end trying to figure out how to tune it and drive a nitro.
You rock Kev
Kev your videos are Best In the world
Btw kev the shock boots they help keep your shocks tip top shape so you won’t have to rebuild them all the time
Kyosho has always made the best shocks! What a beautiful machine all around.
Kev is making nitro great again!
Its nice to see more nitro stuff.
Brooo that car looks so sick
With shock boots I put a very small drop of shock fluid inside the small end of the boot,, roll in fingers to lube the bottom end of boot inside, then slide it all in place and clean and wipe off ecsess . Right way or not it works for me. Happy bashing kev
Japanese quality, mate!
Cheers from Brazil!
It’s 7 In the more for Illinois, but god bless you Kev🙏🏻
Awesome stuff Kev! I love Kyosho gear, it's just quality. Yeah with a bearing going into a hole that tight, do check it to see if it is still spinning freely. They can crush enough so that they run lumpy and gritty, Though I'm sure you know that.
Get yourself a small copper mallet, or a small length of copper rod 10-12mm dia to use with a normal hammer to knock in those hard to install bearings Kev
I am telling you. If we had the modern nitro stuff that we have today back in the 90s nitro would never have died off. Nowadays you can start the engine easily, engines are more reliable and easy to tune, modern fuels that are filled with anti-rust additives. The list goes on
Gona have to try nitro again, the last time I played with nitro engines was in mid 2000’s….. and like you say, they were fiddly, hard to tune, and if you didn’t run the engine often it would corrode and gunk up from the fuel…. Absolute pain in the arse, but still very fun.
Also I was using crystal remote controls which weren’t the most reliable back then just to make it even more exciting
wow colour me shocked SHOCKED you actually got a starter box!!! (as I pick myself up the floor lol)
Hey Kevin Alex kowaliuk here I love these race vehicles even the nitros seem much more usable than a 200 dollar nitro with the blue top that just ether won't run but a couple times or just completely blow up
I want to get one for my 80 year old dad to build it will help keep his mind active and sharp he loves your vids wishes you would go easy on the bearings 😂
I got my RC Maxx all because of you
He looks like Lighting McQueens angry cousin with those headlights 😀
Nice looking kit. Looks high quality all around. Fun too...
Really want to build a Nitro RC. It's a bucket list item.
suggest you setup the failsafe on the transmitter if it has the capability. you should be able to set it, to test, turn off the transmitter, you should see the throttle servo revert to brakes. turn back on, back to idle. thats what i do with my nitro on futaba systems
Loving the race kit content! Seeing the build and the quality of these kits is awesome
Nice RC build
Nitro Content is the best, great job 👍👍
Nailed the tuning! Nice work 💪. Can't wait to see the track study of your car set up vs a pros! Great idea. Done this myself and it's a crazy difference. Love the higher end engines they respond appropriately to carb adjustments and have a very big "tuned" window. Like MTD vs Husqvarna.... one works everytime predictable and reliable
Nice mp10 truggy
19:48. Who else could also smell the nitro from here?
Kev, for the love of god. Buy a dynamite engine heater! It is life changing. Makes it so easy to start your engines and keep them running
These are the kind of episodes I like. Full build
That's the best starter box, but I'd recommend putting nuts on the underside of the guidance plates, mine moved alot.
Rakitan nya...okey juga brooo...mantaappp bangeett...
I like when you said these kyosho kits handle better then any of the basher kits of today!!! I totally agree!. Most folks wouldn’t understand unless you were into the hobby all through the 1990s and 80s a little. tamiya and kyosho are my all time favorite brands..wish mrc or Marui made it :( and allot of folks dog traxxas but they been there since the beginning..
I've been into RC from 1991 I miss the days of building Tamiya lol. Crap remember mechanical speed controllers .. My first Nitro Was Team Associated Rc10GT it was a beast Built it my self at 12....... And yes back in the beginning Traxxas was dogged. The good ol days of 6 foot long antennas.
@@rome8153 I still have my rc10 t3 I raced with back in the nineties lol ya ther was a couple different mechanical speed controls and they all served they’re purpose and folks today don’t know what a potentiometer means!?? ya everyone loves these armma and all the rtr kits but what happened to the good ole days when u really had to build your hobby grade kit if u wanted a real rc race car!??? And if u wanted rtr u could get an amazingly built tyco or Nikko truck that was close to a hobby grade and you could just run it..
@@f.chrisliuzzo7889 Damn man blast from the past!!!!!!! The days when ball bearings cost extra and electronic speed controllers cost as much as the radio... The game has changed in so many ways..... Getting the Hobby Catalogs was the best time... Having today's options then would have been awesome 👍
@@rome8153 just love those old days going to the local hobby shop get catalogs and look for hours and days in them dreaming about the cool cars and parts like electronic ESC servos and stuff.
lots of people got spoiled by internet and RTRs now days and can just buy a car and run it, in terms of broadening the hobby for the guy that dont wrench and build a kit car RTRs is for fact a good thing for the hobby that keeps it alive in that rc is not just racing and polish laptimes.
Most people today don’t even know that all these modern 1/8th scale buggies and their layout and design is based of Kyosho designs from the late 80’s and early 90’s. Kyosho is by far KING in the 1/8th scale buggy realm. More 1/8th world championships than any other brand.
That nitro race engine sound 😍😍😍
Ya just cant beat the old school starter boxes.
Looking at this Buggies really haven't changed since my PB Mustang 2 from way back in the 80's.
Different shock towers and positions , no top radio plate and no upper link between the front and rear differentials. Far better plastics, no bumpers and everything that needs to be drilled or fitted in the kit.
The old kits never had linkages or even diagrams of them you had to get piano wire or bicycle spokes and make them yourself. I remember my first RC500 Associated kit was so crude that the suspension arms didn't even have pivot holes drilled in them. An absolute pain when it came to setup.
Get one of those gyroscopic screwdrivers and you can skip the ugga dugga entirely, it uses your wrist motion to control speed so you can feel the tightness of the screw same as a regular driver while still being pretty fast. Super handy for RC cars.
Set up is key... that will make or break a day at the track
Kyosho content!! Brilliant!! Hyped to see when Mick gets his hands on the Inferno and if he gives us the low down and techno babble on car set up.
Did that happen ? Can’t see it on the channel playlist
That was fun Kev....
Going to try too bind my max smasher today.
Little thing was fun front wheelies rear wheelies glad i wasted the money lol
Got a little Lightning Mcqueen look going on! Can't wait to see you race it!
You put those rubber shock guard on before you thread the plastic shock end on lol just so you know for next time bro😅
This thing screams quality..❤
The kyosho MP10T is a great looking Truggy. I've been window shopping one for awhile now lol. I just converted an old kyosho inferno neo st 2.0 I have over to brushless, it has a lot of potential according to some forums I've read about it. I got the Truck in a Rc lot I picked up a long time ago and it was missing the Nitro engine so I figured it was like mak for a good brushless conversion project.
I've had this Truggy on my wish list for awhile now, both the brushless and nitro look great.
How funny as Stuart set up my mbx -5 and done the paint job on the body. Still have the car now 👍👍
Nice i love the nitros and gas powered cars especially the big 1/5 scales
Hey Kev! Great vids as always. My morning tea and coffee is always accompanied by your videos. With the shock sleeves, couldn’t you lube them with a dry lube and slide on or do they not serve that well as functional? Seems like they would trap a lot of dirt. It’s the first time I’ve seen them. For that matter, anyone who sees this please comment. 😂
What up from Seattle Kev!? I’ve been rockin wit you for a while… I’d hardly say you’re a novice concerning anything rc car.
You ain’t foolin me!😂
One love brutha…
Sickening! The quality of that kit is crazy
I love the look of this buggy like absolutely love it time to work on getting one
2 Strokes are so cool!!!! Get a tuning book Kev!!! You got it
Good video
Man, I love the look of that it’s Beautiful I went to order a electric kyosho truggy that looks like this but the body doesn’t look nowhere near as good as this one
Huge difference when you use top quality nitro engines.. Back in the day (late 80's early 90's) with 1/8th scale buggies I used a few different types and they all had issues. Magnums loved breaking cranks lol.
Went to a race spec OS RX-B .21 and it made the world of difference. And the power and suprise suprise...they held a tune for more than a tank of fuel lol.
Good luck with racing that kit looks spectacular out of the box!!!
I gotta swar by kyosho tho. I built a VR1 corvette of theirs way back in the day and it always ran like a top. I haven't run it for years due to no nitro available where I live but I bet it still runs like a champ.
that part of retune and engine go out of tune after a tank or two i dont miss that part by running all electric today.
@@extec101 totally agree. Brushless power is by far superior.
When I "tuned" my first ever nitro engine I had it running waaay to lean, it absolutely screamed but I melted the conrod. 😅😂
This so much, cheap nitro engines are likely one of the reason so many people dislike them and think they are a pain. Recently bought an XRAY NT18 with a 0.8ccm engine thats made in Japan and holy moly that thing was easy to tune. Even with piss poor settings it would at least still run and not suddenly stop out of nowhere as I experienced with Force Engines.
kev i think the reason that "seems to make it worse " when you set it up is because you don't do that as much as the other people because you set up, fix, and run bashers you don't rcs much but i think after a while if you set up more and race more you would get better.
cant deny that a tweek and setup do differance then just building the kit as is.
On the subject of radios, that is exactly why I prefer an old school analog dial. Way easier to adjust. You don't have to stop, make a phone call, get a manual, watch a video, and then spend 30 minutes clicking through a bunch of nonsense to make an adjustment.
cant say im disappointed about todays radios in terms of handling and what can and cant be done to them i terms of endpoints and stuff like my futaba 3pv compared to the old hitec lynx its miles apart.
Great to see you doing more nitro. 👌🏻👍🏻💪🏻
I had the pleasure of mick tweaking my mp9tki.. night an day after he touched it so good.👌
Very nice! 👍 Waiting to see video from track
There is nothing more fun tan building a really good quality RC kit. I usually buy them, build them, then sell and start over cuz I just enjoy the fiddling.
Kevin if you ever want to stop a motor from turning over when you need to tighten something? Use rope. I do that alot in small engines. Stuff it down the spark plug hole, or exhaust like you said. It's soft, and it won't do any damage. 🙂
"Novice" builds professional nictro RC trucks... 😂
Great video
I have a bunch of the buggy versions. They are great rc’s. Love the resent videos with gas and nitro. But i love all your videos Kev.
That red one looks like Frank from the disney 'cars' film.
The amount of patience this guy has is amazing
The amount of patience his neighbor have it's amazing
You don't need anyone to help you set it up,your a Master.
Kevin! How about you make an infraction with a hypercar body on it? Like a koenigsegg body or something