whats the worst you have done to your rc car

[Wraggy]

Originally Posted by niggs98

heres one of mine

http://www.oople.com/rc/photos/oswes...s/oswes18.html

oh and a very smugg mr spicer holding whats left

now thats commitment !!!!lol

[Spencer Mulcahy]

I was at Bury metro with my Fireblade going down the main straight the car in front was weaving down the straight so I pulled out to get past and clipped his back wheel at full chat, started to role down the straight landed in a heap with only two wheels left on it. The next car down the straight didnt see my car and took a third wheel off one hub a drive shaft two wishbones and Colin Brennan pissing himself all over the track.

[savageman25]

Havent seen any more new posts on this thread lately, maybe people have stopped seriously breaking cars, well not me lol
i was driving my savage at my mates bit of land after a night of heavy rain so there were big puddles. (now would be the time to tell you he has ducks up there and they like there savage free pond)Now i was being a bit stupid going through the puddles which were getting bigger each time and then i thought i would drive one wheel into the pond,then two wheels, then all four decided (nothing to do withh my trigger happy finger) to go in this 4 foot deep pond. It was FLOATING yesssss, nooooooooo, the front wheels went under then the exhaust was gurgling under water then the whole thing went under, engine stopped, pulled it out started up again first time then full throttled it into the water and hit the really deep part and savage no more. Took engien apart all fine in there savvy goes again, maybe my b4 will do that.

[cjm_2008]

at last sundays club meet I started to play around with the slipper setting on my b44.

this involves inserting a 2mm allen key into the slipper retaining bolt, and rotating the axles. a very clever system.

time was running out before the next round, so I rushed to get the car onto the track to test the slipper.

I couldn't quite work out why the bodyshell wouldn't seat with the velcro properly, but I ignored that and put the car down. full throttle, noise, no movement....!

yes, i'd left the allen key in. thankfully the slipper stopped any damage to the top deck or electrics. NOOB MISTAKE.

another one: back when I was 14, my local club used to race at my school hall. I'd charge all my cells up (yuasa 1700s'!!!) and carry them in a tool box. I usually got away with it, but this time I had a hacksaw packed in next to them. of course, they shorted on the hacksaw. cue 2 sets of melted cells, a plastic tool box with a hole in it, and a very depressed teenager.

[millzy]

not done huge crash n smashing for a while but years ago when i was given a Pred p8 to try at a tiverton winter round.

Any way coming onto the straight i over powerd it and the car drifted right and clipped the track marking and jumped over to the other side of the track inot on coming cars.....

Future national champ Lee martin was full pelt coming the other way and i hit his b3 head on...smashing the lent Preds chassis in half and killing the left side of Lees B3.

[Bathy]

Drove my car into the garden pond once... happy days!

[Southwell]

Originally Posted by Bathy

Drove my car into the garden pond once... happy days!

Best place for the golf

[B44&501xRacerEX]

Originally Posted by showtime

i'm like a regular demolition man!
i break stuff nobody else does

2nd time out with my Pred LOL

That's a pretty nasty crash. My freind wes had his predator at Albion he hit the wall and broke the main pin on the rear end. Had to take the chassis apart to fix it. He had that car in a million pieces.
He was also having issues of stripped spur gears, so he had to take an assocaited B4 spur gear and cut it to fit in his chassis.

He'll be selling his predator later on this year to get a Serpent.

[Garry Driffill]

What rear pin do you mean ? did he take the full car apart to fix a rear pin or somthing , B4 spur gear on a predator ! WHATS GOING ON !!!

[B44&501xRacerEX]

Originally Posted by Garry Driffill

What rear pin do you mean ? did he take the full car apart to fix a rear pin or somthing , B4 spur gear on a predator ! WHATS GOING ON !!!

Dont ask me, he made it to the A-main though.
I'm the B-main Bandit and didnt make it.

[sport10]

My worst crash happened to my XXX-CR buggy. I was running in Tallahassee, FL at Tom Brown Park just practicing. We had this kid with a 1/8 buggy just driving crazy. The buggy had way to much power for his skill level. Any way I was practicing racing with one of my friends and my brother in law and this kid managed to jump the triple and double jump in the lane next to the one I was running in in one big jump. He landed in my lane and hit me head on with my buggy running around 25 to 30 mph in the opposite direction. The impact broke the chassis in half right at the steering section where the front plate and chassis join. The front half of my buggy was thrown into the next lane. The kid packed up a left without even saying sorry. People are so rude today. This is why you do not want to race electrics with 1/8 scale nitro B-Mag!

[Mash Potato]

I can't take credit for these, I found them on another forum, but they are pretty serious. The pictures say it all really.

[peetbee]

The worst I did was when my brother and I took our cars on holiday as kids.
We had a great time running my Boomerang and his Super Sabre on the beach splashing through puddles etc. Only trouble was, we left them til we got home before cleaning them up!
The driveshafts had rusted solid into the drive cups

Still good old Tamiya, a clean up and they were as good as new!

[wacattack]

Worst I ever had was in 1996, racinmy RC10B2 at (I think) a Mtroniks Winter National.

Went round the corner to head onto the straight, started to throttle it, then I suddenlt realised I wasnt in control. The car went all the way down the straight, full speed, straight into one of the wooden benches.

Everyone just seemed to stop. After the race went over to my car to investigate. The cells shorted out against the graphite chasis, which shorted the speedo and got stuck on full throttle.

So, what did i break?

Chassis
Pack of cells
Speedo
Servo
Shock body
Bent both pistons
2 wishbones
Front shock tower
Bent 2 turnbuckes
Ball joints
Front chassis plate
front top chassis plate


The car was more or less a complete writeoff.

Luckily for me I was sponsored back in them days and didnt cost as much as it should have to get sorted.

Nightmare!!

[Chrislong]

Millzy's crashing the X-5 at the Batley indoor finals 2006 was funny. At the time I felt bad for him, as it wasn't his car, but now it is funny. Didn't even turn, I think the Mtroniks had gone into "blue smoke escape" mode. Lots of damage.

I seen Rich Lowe cartwheel down the straight at Teesside and I think every corner was broken off!

[bigoggy]

when we used to race at warsop on wednesday nights. about 15 years ago. the esc on my procat went up in smoke. i drove it off the track and as i got off the table we used as a rostrum a marshall placed it back on the track. the next guy to come round the corner hit it full from behind. i lost both back wheels and the esc and chassis melted. that was my last ever race. only now am i thinking about racing again after 15 years of bashing

[bigoggy]

some say this is the worst i have done

[lochness42]

Originally Posted by bigoggy

some say this is the worst i have done

I'm blind now not really, you can see it even in night

[Northy]

Originally Posted by Chrislong

I seen Rich Lowe cartwheel down the straight at Teesside and I think every corner was broken off!

Me and my Pred pressured him into that!

G

[B44&501xRacerEX]

Originally Posted by sport10

This is why you do not want to race electrics with 1/8 scale nitro B-Mag!

I cannot say I've ever done that. I used to race revo's with an E-maxx though. It's impossible to beat a revo with an emaxx.

I have practiced up at reo many times with nitro 1/8 buggies and the worst thing an 8th scale has done to my B44 was push the rear end to the pipe and I got stuck.
Jerks!