one day in my uncles neighborhood, i was driving around my t-maxx 2.5 and along comes some pure RICE eclipse with body kit and stuff, and cougar,they both rev the crap out of thier cars and go off down the street so i laugh under my breath. I went back out with it later and was hitting it in 2nd gear at top speed down the street, and along comes the , you guessed it, eclipse, and he wants to race! even better. so we line up and his friend in the back yells go, we take off and i kill him from the start, we were racing to a speed bump, and i killed him by atleast a car length, and he ha no time to stop at the speed bump, bad descision deciding to race to the speed bump, all i hear is crack! and him yelling, so i go inside. like 2 days later i see the same eclipse at a car show, and i look at it and there was a hugggggee crack in the body kit. he told me he went to far into a parking spot. ::bull:: after talking i told him it was me with the t-maxx and he was like "oh crap that was you" and changed the whole "i hit a parking block" story. My dad coms walking up, "so son is this the eclipse you beat with your little r/c car" and we never forgot the guys face. it was sssooooo red. Who says a kill story has to be in a real car? when my r/c can woop alot of real cars. Its good to learn young :laugh: :TU:
i used to work at a sticker shop and all the rice would come in for graphics. anyhow, my boss was in to racing shifter carts (gocarts on crack). well this guy that used to allways come in was talking about how fast his car was so my boss puts up the challange. his 80cc shifter cart against this guys "hoocked up" focus. :grin: the guy just laughs and says the carts got no chance against him. after my boss raised the stakes and through some money on the table, he changed his story. :grin: :3gears: pete
Go Cart Back in high school a freind of mine had a go cart with a 100cc Yamaha 2 stroke engine that would rev to 15,000. That thing was scary fast. None of us had the cahoneys (sp) to hit top speed. One day he put it on the highway to try and top it out and got caught buy a sherrif doing 120, he said that he hadn't even hit the power band yet, and yes you could feel it come on.:3gears: :3gears:
Seriously... This is no bull!!!:jd: It's a wonder Jay is still alive.o No: Man had a death wish the whole time I knew him. Think he calmed down quite a bit now that he has a good job with UPRR. Still amazed every time I go home and he's still alive.:beer :Brow:
I've raced after a few cars with my Hpi Rs4 MT w/mod motor and 2 speed tranny. Pretty funny seeing this little car catching up to these big cars. This guy in a truck saw it in his rear view mirror once and stopped and burned out (small and weak tho, it was a ford I think).
I put a Honda 450 twin dual cam streetbike engine on my son's go cart for Christmas. I've never had so much fun. It'll get sideways and spin the tires in 3rd gear at 50mph. It took my son 3 tries(he's 11) to get the clutch release down. Once he firgured that out about 5 minuted later he was getting air under the front tires on launch. I think I'm a bad influence on that boy. LOL:Brow:
I've seen the T-Maxx and thought about getting one, but it was kinda small, and i didn't like the idea of the electric starter. It was also about $500. I went and got a Thunder Quake from Tower Hobbies for just $200. It's a 1/8 scale, the T-Maxx is only 1/10 scale. It also has a 3.5 21Torq engine, the T-Maxx only has a 2.5 15 Racing engine. They both go 40+ mph, just mine's bigger.
got a ticket in my lawnmower Ok, this isn't a rice story, but after all the posts of gokarts, I feel I have to tell it. This was about 10 years ago. My Father bought an old V-8 pulling tractor. Not much as far as pulling tractors go. 5 foot boxed steel frame, mild 283 Chevy, shortened 10 bolt posi (not sure of gears) 4 speed granny gear trans, Chain driven off of sprockets on the tailshaft, and rear end. My dad however, had no intrest in pulling. He envisioned a unique riding mower for our 1.4 acre lawn. Here it goes.... 5 foot wide deck, belt driven off the crank. That didn't work to well, threw belts left and right. Switched to a PTO. I can mow an acre in under an hour. So I tell my friends, and no one believes me. So I drive it into town to show em. Got a ticket at 72mph on the highway (then 55 speed limit)... The cop was beside himself, he just kept saying "what the hell is it!" Sorry, no pics. I could probably get one, but my dad would take months to send it to me.
Re: got a ticket in my lawnmower Lmao, that's great. So what did your friends say after seeing the 72mph ticket? :Brow:
Re: Re: got a ticket in my lawnmower Well, It obviously wasn't licenced, so the discription was rather vague.... Farm impliment..... Then I had to organize viewings. Seemed everyone wanted to see it, hear it run, ect.... This really pissed the old man off! I didn't get to mow the lawn again for over a year! Did I mention I was like 15, and didn't even have my license yet?
