If you walk into any classroom in the country, you’re going to have every little boy and girl pegged within a few minutes when it comes to what they’re into. That girl reading National Geographic loves animals, the boy over there doodling in his notebook and ignoring the teacher is the artist, and the kid holding his fists in the air in front of him going “Vrooooom, vroooommmmm! EEEEEE!” is obviously the one who’s into cars.
It’s one of those fascinations that, for many of us, begins in early childhood and carries right on into adulthood, and then right on into old age. While in real life, we may have to settle for a more affordable and modest vehicle, leaving the hot rods and custom machines to racers and movie stuntmen, the escapism of a good car chase flick, or just a walk through a classic car show leaves most adults with a smile on their face, thinking about what we could drive if only we didn’t have to hold down a job and maintain a respectable living!
If it’s your son or nephew who’s nuts about V8 engines and knows more about fuel injection than you do, here are a few words of advice: Encourage that. Whenever you go to work on the car, let the boy tag along, explain to him what you’re doing and allow him to help out. At the very least, you’re going to raise a kid who can take care of these things for himself when he reaches driving age. And secondly, keep encouraging his infatuation with cars with the right toys.
Some of the coolest cars toys actually come from Legos. Lego racers, for instance, are pretty cool. They let the kid put together a race car either based on the instructions, or they can build one of their own design.
And of course, you simply cannot go wrong with remote control cars. Back when we were kids, these were pretty much the cool toy, and they still are. Sure, you can play racing video games these days, but do racing games let you build your own race tracks in the backyard? Do you get the same viscera thrill racing in a video game that you do hearing the whirr and buzz of the electric motor of a remote control car? Can you set up a bunch of used soda cans and try to stage spectacular crashes into the stack? Remote control cars offer room for imagination that’s hard to attain with an Xbox controller.
And of course, if your kid is still a bit young for something as complex as a hundred piece lego set or a remote control car or something, there are plenty of things for the young, car loving child. Wooden toys, for example, They may not fulfil that need for speed, but they’re a safe, easy alternative when your kid is just obsessed with automotives and you know he’s not ready for something made for older children just yet.
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What is a really nice brand of remote control car?I'm thinking of Christmas presents and I am thinking about RC cars.
I have gotten RC cars on previous occasions, like the cheap kind you find at target, but I am getting older and those kind aren't all that much fun for me anymore. I would like something faster/better (I can't really put my finger on the word). So what brand makers are there that create nice remote control cars?
P.S. i don't mean things like XMODS, those are tiny
P.S.S It HAS HAS TO BE CHEAPER THAN $100
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wow, the bird in the backround must be going M-10. CHEESE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
fake at the end,u can c it because everything else speeds up as well.Including the 200mph birds in the background
that was light speed or i have bad seeing
Oooook. Short answer, is you can't. Long answer is; Each remote car, and remote car radio handset has a crystal in it. The crystal in the remote car, and the handset it came with are identical, producing the same frequency and running your car. However, the cheap remote car radio handset your purchased has a very slightly different crystal, it is still 49mhz, but it may be 49.174 while the one you had before was 49.566. Basically this means that you wont be able to get control of the car with a different handset. However, hobby grade cars have the crystals visibly on the outside of the radio handset. IF this is the case, you can remove the crystal from the handset, and switch it with another. Same with the car, IF ITS HOBBYGRADE you can take the top of, the crystal will be poking out of a small black box, the reciever. IF this is the case, you can swap the crystals around. However if what you've got is two toys cars, im sorry to say it, your stuffed. If you need more info, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_control_car#Toy-grade_radio_control
Unless you are "allowed" to build your own RC remote/receiver, hacking an existing RC remote will be a pain in the butt. Of course if you are allowed to build from the ground up, you have tons of options.
first if it has a a starter than put batteries in it
then put the nitro in the vehicle
then try starting it with the starter
(if problem persistce than wiggle the exauhst pipe until exauhst is moving out freely)
if this still does not help than im sorry i cant help
With a very good sense of imagination..
200 MPH eh? Goes well with the 200 MPH birds flying in the background.
you can see the wings on the “flies” around 0:56 the light under the flag starts to blink really fast too, but who knows.
oh my fucking god its smokeing
OMG!!!!!
i would be scared to be the guy that starts it up
Get a life!! This has to be the worst hobby anyone can think of. Why don’t you get someone to jump-rope as the car (thing) goes round. That wuld be entertaining to watch somebody jump like a GD fool!
Go to a prof. hobbies shop, if they don't have the whole kit they should have the control transmitter and receivers you need.
Try BestBuy or Radio Shack (if they even still sell things like that).
William Pirkey
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If it was just an electric toy car, you would increase the voltage the motor is getting and it would go faster. But being remote control, it has some electronics in it that could be damaged by higher voltage.
But there is always a way. Do you know much about electronics? You need to wire in a relay between the motor and the control box. You wire it so that the control box doesn't send power to the motor any more, it just sends a little power to the relay to "trip" it (a relay is just a switch that it turned on by electricity – you can get one at Radio Shack).
Say your car runs on 6 volts. You would hook up some batteries with say, 12 volts, and connect one of the wires to the relay, the other wire to the motor, and then run a wire from the relay to the other motor wire. Now, when you press the button on the remote to make it go, the controller in the car will turn on the relay. The relay will connect the 12-volt power to the motor, and off it goes, twice as fast as before.
You might even consider running it at 18 volts. To do this, get 4 or 6 rechargeable 9-volt batteries. Connect them in series pairs – two batteries to make 18 volts, then two more in series, with this series connected in parallel to the first. The more batteries you have in series, the faster it will go. The more you have in parallel, the longer it will run.
Hope this helps!
Rick (engineer)